5 Feb
2010
5 Feb
'10
11:40 p.m.
A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay recently (cheap) so I
decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but my
salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...)
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering in
1993...
Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the
battery) but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real option
for getting software on the machine is over the serial port, which is
a a bit annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on it..)
Anyone have any spares?
Thanks,
Josh
6 Feb
6 Feb
5:26 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Dersch" <derschjo at mail.msu.edu>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:40 PM
Subject: Looking for: Dauphin DTR-1 Floppy
A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay
recently (cheap) so I
decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but my
salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...)
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering in
1993...
Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the battery)
but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real option for getting
software on the machine is over the serial port, which is a a bit
annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on it..)
Anyone have any spares?
Thanks,
Josh
No floppy drive here (I have a couple units with bad keyboards), but there
is a site that shows the pinout for the port.
8 Feb
8 Feb
7:45 a.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Dersch" <derschjo at
mail.msu.edu>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:40 PM
Subject: Looking for: Dauphin DTR-1 Floppy
Yeah, I found that -- but I have no idea what kind of connector the
Dauphin uses for the floppy port, it's not something I've seen before
and I don't know its "name" so it's difficult to search for :). Anyone
know? (I can supply pictures if needed...)
Josh
A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay
recently (cheap) so I
decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but my
salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...)
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering
in 1993...
Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the
battery) but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real
option for getting software on the machine is over the serial port,
which is a a bit annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on
it..)
Anyone have any spares?
Thanks,
Josh
No floppy drive here (I have a couple units with bad keyboards), but
there is a site that shows the pinout for the port.
6 Feb
6 Feb
5:35 a.m.
I might have spares. The problem being I'm not sure where in the
garage (aka the disaster area), the two boxes of DTR-1 stuff is. I
think I have 4 systems, and some other stuff. It will be quite some
time before I start digging back to that point.
Zane
At 3:40 PM -0800 2/5/10, Josh Dersch wrote:
A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay
recently (cheap) so
I decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but
my salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...)
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering
in 1993...
Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the
battery) but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real
option for getting software on the machine is over the serial port,
which is a a bit annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on
it..)
Anyone have any spares?
Thanks,
Josh
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8 Feb
8 Feb
7:45 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
I might have spares. The problem being I'm not
sure where in the
garage (aka the disaster area), the two boxes of DTR-1 stuff is. I
think I have 4 systems, and some other stuff. It will be quite some
time before I start digging back to that point.
Zane
Thanks -- if you do ever find yourself digging around and find them, let
me know :).
Josh
6 Feb
6 Feb
7:05 p.m.
On Feb 5, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices
that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering
in 1993...
I have several of the 20MB Kittyhawks and a single 40MB unit.
I've done a bit of hacking on them with home-brew SBCs. They are a
little weird in some ways, but they're really neat, I like them.
-Dave
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