> On 27 Jan 2018, at 20:23, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > A 380Z, nice! I used to use those when I was at University. My final year > project used one connected to a research machine called MU6-G for > diagnostics. All the registers in the machine were connected up as one > enormous shift register, so you could get and set any register in the machine > from the 380Z. I wrote a program to do simple diagnostics on the machine. It > was a lot of fun. > > They don’t come up very often and go for more money than I can justify.
It was the first machine I used at school so when someone offered me a broken one back in 2011 I jumped at the chance. I tried fixing it back then with Tony’s help but wasn’t as confident as I am now so it only took me a few hours to fix. Fortunately it came with boot disks but making new ones has been a massive lesson in CP/M compatibility and reintroduction to assembler coupled with swearing :) It uses an odd format that 22DISK doesn’t like though, but ImageDisk works nicely now that I have the right PC hardware to do it. I’m now keen to try cpmtools on linux once I find out if that floppy controller is still supported, and if it isn’t how far back to I need to go! Much writing and pictures (no swearing) at http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/rml/380z.php Cheers A > Regards > > Rob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian >> Graham via cctalk >> Sent: 27 January 2018 19:16 >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> Subject: TESTFDC >> >> I’d like to thank whoever it was who added the Abit K8V Pro/Winbond >> W83627HF with its test results to the TESTFDC page for writing SSSD disks. >> I’ve >> been trying to get a similar setup going for a fortnight now and last week >> found >> this motherboard on e*ay for Not Many UK Pounds. Coupled with a scrap >> Athlon64 system from work and a scratched Windows98 CD I eventually got it >> going earlier and can now read/write single density floppies meaning I can >> archive the disks I got with my Research Machines 380Z :D >> >> Typical of my luck a contact has also found an Adaptec 1522A that he’ll >> hopefully send me too, then I’m covered for all eventualities. >> >> Now where did I put that 8” drive... >> >> — >> Adrian/Witchy >> Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards >> w: binarydinosaurs.co.uk <http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/> t: @binarydinosaurs >> f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs — Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards w: binarydinosaurs.co.uk t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
