30 Dec
2010
30 Dec
'10
4:36 p.m.
While sorting through my voluminous Apple // hoard today I uncovered
this device:
http://silent700.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-it.html
Anyone have any idea what it is? There in only the ribbon cable with
9pin male connector on it and the cutout which has 8 DIP switches and
a 3-pin connector. I am somewhat familiar with the Corvus hard drive
and networking systems for the Apple // line but I have never seen
this.
I also uncovered a boxed (board, manual, sw inside) Apple Turnover
kit. The floppy is (c) 1985 F. Cisin. Is that our own Fred Cisin on
this list?
I have at least a couple dozen (so far) mystery Apple // cards in this
box....I *know* if I approach the search correctly, one will be a
Swyft ;)
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jht
30 Dec
30 Dec
4:52 p.m.
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Jason T wrote:
I also uncovered a boxed (board, manual, sw inside)
Apple Turnover
kit. The floppy is (c) 1985 F. Cisin. Is that our own Fred Cisin on
this list?
Vertex commissioned one guy to do the hardware, another to write the
sector read/write, and I slapped together a program.
Eventually, of course, Apple made them rename it to just "Turnover".
Depending on the exact version, it handles Apple-OS, Apple Pascal
(UCSD), ProDos, and Apple CP/M
A relatively low percentage of the boards work right, and it is VERY
touchy about which drives it will work with. I recommend setting aside an
early Tandom TM100-2 to use with it, or do a serial port transfer instead.
--
Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
PO Box 1236 (510) 558-9366
Berkeley, CA 94701-1236
4:56 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Depending on the exact version, it handles Apple-OS,
Apple Pascal
(UCSD), ProDos, and Apple CP/M
The board is Rev 3. with no S/N on it. The S/W is v 1.22
touchy about which drives it will work with. ?I
recommend setting aside an
early Tandom TM100-2 to use with it, or do a serial port transfer instead.
Yeah, I figure it's just a cool relic for the collection at this
point. There are ample other ways to read (fewer to write) Apple //
media now.
--
j
5:47 p.m.
On 12/30/10 4:36 PM, Jason T wrote:
http://silent700.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-it.html
Anyone have any idea what it is? There in only the ribbon cable with
9pin male connector on it and the cutout which has 8 DIP switches and
a 3-pin connector. I am somewhat familiar with the Corvus hard drive
and networking systems for the Apple // line but I have never seen
this.
It is a Corvus Omninet interface for a Macintosh. I'd be interested in the
software, if it should turn up in the pile.
6:59 p.m.
Hi Jason
You are aware that we have the SwyftCard manual on the
google canon-cat group. We will be moving the file section
soon because of some silly new policy of google.
Dwight
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:36:42 -0600
Subject: Apple/Corvus Whatsit
From: silent700 at gmail.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
While sorting through my voluminous Apple // hoard today I uncovered
this device:
http://silent700.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-it.html
Anyone have any idea what it is? There in only the ribbon cable with
9pin male connector on it and the cutout which has 8 DIP switches and
a 3-pin connector. I am somewhat familiar with the Corvus hard drive
and networking systems for the Apple // line but I have never seen
this.
I also uncovered a boxed (board, manual, sw inside) Apple Turnover
kit. The floppy is (c) 1985 F. Cisin. Is that our own Fred Cisin on
this list?
I have at least a couple dozen (so far) mystery Apple // cards in this
box....I *know* if I approach the search correctly, one will be a
Swyft ;)
--
jht
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