On Tuesday 23 May 2006 11:17 pm, Gene Buckle wrote:
> I just posted both PDF and TIF scans (600dpi) of my Kaypro Technical
> Manual to the retroarchive site (http://www.retroarchive.org). I've
> never seen this available before so I figured there would be some need
> for it.
Do you have the schematics for the power supplies used in their machines? I
have some, three or four versions by different mfrs. if I'm remembering
right, if needed.
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, David Ryskalczyk wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:41 AM, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>> That's because "retroarchive.org" by itself isn't a valid hostname as far as
>> I'm concerned.
>
> Why not use a 301 redirect? that's generally how I do things in this situation.
>
That's up to Jay - I have not created an A record for the domain.
g.
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I've finally gotten off my ass and started updating the Retroarchive
site. For the first round it's pretty much all Heathkit stuff. I've also
recently obtained a complete set of the newsletter, "The Staunch
8/89'er" that I'm going to try to get online as fast as I can, time
allowing.
Since the Heathkit area of the site is pretty sparse, I'd like to ask you
folks for some donations - if you've got software for any of the Heathkit
machines you'd like to make available, please let me know. I'd be happy
to get it online for others to download.
BTW, thanks must go out to Jay West for hosting the site for me!
http://www.retroarchive.org is the place.
Thanks folks.
Gene Buckle
geneb(a)deltasoft.com
I just posted both PDF and TIF scans (600dpi) of my Kaypro Technical
Manual to the retroarchive site (http://www.retroarchive.org). I've
never seen this available before so I figured there would be some need
for it.
I've now got access to a duplexing sheet fed scanner that can only be
described as the Cat's Ass. :) In the coming days I'll be scanning some
CP/M 68k docs as well as all my Ampro Littleboard docs. From there
I'll progress into my complete (I think) set of the Staunch 8/89'er and
the Heatkit ROM listings. From there I'll scan anything I can fit into
the hopper. *grin*
The TIF images are clean enough for OCR work if anyone is interested in
doing that.
The CP/M 68k docs should have been done (literally) years ago, but for
one lame ass excuse or another, it never got done. Those should be
posted by tomorrow.
g.
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Gene Buckle wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Mike Loewen wrote:
>>
>> The differences between the Bondwell models 12 and 14 seem to be 128KB
>> RAM in the 14 (as opposed to 64KB in the 12) and double-sided drives in the
>> 14 (versus single-sided in the 12). You could try the Bondwell 14 disk
>> images on your Retroarchive site. :-)
>>
>> http://www.retroarchive.org/hardware/bondwell/bw14dsks.zip
>>
> Well played sir! However, I doubt a single-sided drive can grok a
> double-sided boot disk. :)
So, extract the system tracks from the double-sided image and write
them to a single-sided image and copy any desired files. I've done the
same sort of thing on Linux, using 'dd' and cpmtools.
...or put a double-sided drive in it.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line. The
company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s and early
90's. Note these are all DOS products - the Windows product line was sold
in the early 90's.
http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html
When the documentation arrives, I'll be paying the IA to get it all
scanned. It's a lot cheaper than me buying a Scribe scanner or building a
DIY version. :)
Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.
http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html
What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
them easily browseable. I've also extracted the contents of each of the
zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well. The goal was
to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and
search spider bots.
This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either
exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I die, whichever comes
first. ;)
There's a number of holes in the sets that are on the IA - if you've got a
disc that would fill a hole, please consider making an ISO of the disc and
upload that along with a photo of the disc to the IA and then let me know
so I can get it processed.
I'm also looking to acquire a manual set for QuickBASIC 4.5 and the
Microsoft Professional Development System 7.1. If you have either one,
please contact me!
Thanks!
g.
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Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
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A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ali wrote:
>
>> Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.
>>
>> http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html
>>
>> What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
>> them easily browseable. I've also extracted the contents of each of
>> the
>> zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well. The goal
>> was
>> to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and
>> search spider bots.
>
> Very nice! Thank you for doing this!
>
You're welcome. It's been a fun project. It does suck up space fast
though. Each CD unpacks to about between 1.2G and 1.7GB of data. :)
g.
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http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
> >>> The differences between the Bondwell models 12 and 14 seem to be 128KB
> >>> RAM in the 14 (as opposed to 64KB in the 12) and double-sided drives in
> >>> the 14 (versus single-sided in the 12). You could try the Bondwell 14
> >>> disk images on your Retroarchive site. :-)
> >>> http://www.retroarchive.org/hardware/bondwell/bw14dsks.zip
> > ...or put a double-sided drive in it.
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, Gene Buckle wrote:
> For me it's just not worth the effort unless I have the right media for
> it. I don't even know what the thrift shop wants for the machine. I may
> be up to my neck in Kaypro hardware soon anyway... :)
Howzbout:
cable up a double sided drive TEMPORARILY, with the existing single sided
drive as B:
boot, test, enjoy
format a single sided disk (good luck finding the right FORMAT command
line options, if it doesn't automagically switch)
SYSGEN
PIP
put the single sided drive back into A: position
There probably are numerous people on this list who would like to purchase
a CP/M laptop.
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On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Mike Loewen wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>> Anyone on the list have disks or disk images for this beastie? It's
>> lurking quietly at the local thrift shop and has no docs/media. They
>> probably think it's a DOS machine of some kind. :) (it's a CP/M portable)
>
> The differences between the Bondwell models 12 and 14 seem to be 128KB RAM
> in the 14 (as opposed to 64KB in the 12) and double-sided drives in the 14
> (versus single-sided in the 12). You could try the Bondwell 14 disk images
> on your Retroarchive site. :-)
>
> http://www.retroarchive.org/hardware/bondwell/bw14dsks.zip
>
Well played sir! However, I doubt a single-sided drive can grok a
double-sided boot disk. :)
g.
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Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
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On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures
THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
