You can get the latest NCBridge software from http://www.thinpathsystems.com/index.php?modules=support&content=patches&pro=ncb
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Rico Pajarola <r...@servium.ch> wrote: > Found it! > > I spent a few hours digging through my storage and against all odds I > found both the CD with a backup of everything I had collected from various > internet sites as well as the original NCD boot tape release 2.3.0. > > While I'm searching for a working tape drive, here's the contents of the > CD: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0w8o31gfj1ys7w/ncd.tar.bz2?dl=0 > > At the very least it has some docs, all the fonts, and netboot images for > anything that was supported from NCDWare 3.2 to 5.1. Unfortunately, no new > manuals that are not already on bitsavers (except for the Explora 400 > brochure). > > There's a file ncd_xp421c.tar.bz2 in there that should have the NCBridge > boot monitor required for the XP221. I don't have XPressWare. > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Ken Seefried <seefr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Rico Pajarola <r...@servium.ch> >> >> > Does no one have NCDWare 3.2.1 or earlier? >> >> Nostalgia...I really liked the NCD 19 I used many moons ago. >> Reasonably snappy at the time, nice mono screen, quiet. Funny enough >> I recently resurrected an NCD Explora 701 (much later MIPS-based >> xterminal). It's wildly faster than the 19 (with 10/100 enet instead >> of just 10), but it's interesting to see how far modern X >> implementation has diverged from NCDs time: 8-bit pseudo-color is a >> showstopper for a lot of things, various desktops (Gnome, KDE, etc.) >> break in strange ways if they run at all, lot's of contemporary code >> has issues on 64-bit systems (like my old xview/olvwm code). TWM >> still works fine, as does the butt-ugly built in NCD Motif-ish window >> manager. Haven't had much time to work on it, but I'd like to get >> something like i3 running. I bet Mouse can add more color commentary. >> Reminds me...need to see if I can still get the Mouse terminal >> emulator to run. Probably also need to get an SCO ODT or SVR4 VM >> running for that old school feel. >> >> I know I've got at least one 3.x release, but not sure which one or >> what's in it. FWIW, I've also got some 4.x, a 5.0.x and 5.1.x; >> running 5.1.140 on the 700. I'm in Dublin until next week so won't be >> able to check until then. Ping me directly if you don't hear from me >> by, say, Thursday. >> >> P.S. - If anyone has an NCD 700-series or HMX (esp HMXpro24) they >> don't want, let me know. >> >> KJ >> > >