[cctalk] Re: VAXstation 100 ROM image

2022-09-06 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw via cctalk
On Tue, 2022-09-06 05:02:08 +, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk 
 wrote:
> Matt Burke wrote:
> > I dumped the ROMs from my VAXstation 100 some time ago (along with many
> > other DEC devices):
> >
> > http://www.9track.net/roms/
> Thank you very much!  My idea is to make a VS100 emulator and have it
> run the firmware uploaded by early X versions.  But I have some other
> things going on now, so it will have to wait.  I'd be grateful for any
> help; I may well get in touch in the future.

What kind of emulator are you planing? A completely new thing? Or do
you want to use SIMH as a basis?

MfG, JBG

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[cctalk] Re: VAXstation 100 ROM image

2022-09-06 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>> My idea is to make a VS100 emulator and have it run the firmware
>> uploaded by early X versions.
>
> What kind of emulator are you planing? A completely new thing? Or do
> you want to use SIMH as a basis?

It's just a vague idea.  It's much too early to say I have any kind of
plan in place.  I might use SIMH, or something like Musashi, or write my
own in adjunction to my VT52 and VT100 simulators.  I suppose the Unibus
interface to a VAX host would favour use of SIMH, in which case the
VS100 would look like a SIMH device with a 68000 inside.


[cctalk] Re: You have Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system to trade for my IBM 5100 Portable PC?

2022-09-06 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Tom Stepleton wrote:

Or at least there as something that was sold in this way. Here is its
brochure:

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sykes/brochures/Sykes_Comm-Stor_5100_Brochure.pdf


Interesting!


(What is an IMF?)


IMF = internal machine fix
The 5100/5110 had a mechanism to load resident binary routines into memory 
in order to patch ROS (=ROM) routines or to add a driver (e.g. the 
Plot feature). Basically, you load a program that then relocates the 
resident part to the end of free memory, patches some entry points in RWS 
(=RAM) and adjusts the end-of-memory value.


Christian


[cctalk] Re: You have Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system to trade for my IBM 5100 Portable PC?

2022-09-06 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:

the 5100 has an external connector.  The floppy drive is a floor unit about


Yes, three Sub-D connectors. Two for the signals, one for power.


the size of three AT units upright, with two single density floppies in it. 


And that floppy drive (if you are thinking of the IBM 5114) does *not* 
work on the 5100. The 5100 simply has not the "driver" for it.

Is it possible that you are thinking of the IBM 5110 ?

And there was another connector on the back of the unit to daisy chain the 
printer.  This is the 5100 desktop unit.


You could only attach up to three IBM 5106 external tape drives and one 
5103 printer at the end of the chain. There wasn't anything else AFAIK.



I've got one of the units with the integrated 8" floppies as well.


That is the IBM 5120 aka IBM 5110 model 3.

Christian


[cctalk] Re: You have Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system to trade for my IBM 5100 Portable PC?

2022-09-06 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:

The unit I have is IBM.


There was no floppy drive unit from IBM for the IBM 5100.
Or do you have a model number?


It only did single sided diskettes, low density.  It's the only device which


The IBM 5114 handles single and double sided diskettes, as well as FM and 
MFM, so up to over 1 MB per floppy.


I've ever had which could write deleted sectors.  The formatting on the 
diskette is very similar to the tape formatting with two EOT records followed 
by the remainder of track 0 padded out with deleted sectors.


??
Now I'm curious. What floppy drive system exactly are you talking about?

Christian

[cctalk] HP 150 software

2022-09-06 Thread Stan Sieler via cctalk
Hi,

I found a bunch of original HP 150 software on 3.5" floppies ...
any HP 150 collectors here?Free, pickup, Cupertino.

Includes the following.  About 1/2 are original disks.

The most unusual are probably the compilers from Prospero, and the
IMAGE-like database (Mirage?) from Datasoft International (the developer
was likely Michel Kohon, from France, and a member of the HP 3000
community).

Datacom:
   DSN/Link
   HP PCLink
   Kermit
   PC2622
   Reflection 1 Plus

Misc / Unknown:
   Ally/150
   Application Master Extended I/O Application
   Cardfile (full app)
   Cardfile demo
   Computer tutor 150
   Edit/150 from KSD systems Limited
   Infocom sampler
   Interex CSL/100 volume 56
   Interex CSL150  (contributed library)
   Mentor version 1.E.1 from KSD systems Limited
   System demo
   Thinkjet demo
   Visicalc

Games:
   Tick Tock, Radar, Othello, others
   Type attack, Temple of Apshai, Ricochet
   Winning Deal
   Zork

Programming...
   C (unknown...just says "C" on label)
   Lattice C
   MASM
   Modula 2
   MVP Forth (on misc games floppy)
   Pro Fortran from Prospero
  Pro For 1  (possibly same as above)
   Pro Pascal from Prospero
   Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0

   ISV Development  (from HP)
   ISV revision A.1.2 (Independent Software Vendor toolkit from HP?)
   Programmers Toolkit  (HP)
   Programmers tools: debug, sort, find, edlin, ece2bin, ...more... (HP)

Database: ???
   Mirager Version ii 2.A.1 Datasoft International
   Mirage Library
   Mirage I

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[cctalk] Re: HP 150 software

2022-09-06 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Any chance you could upload them to the internet archive for posterity?


Wayne


> On Sep 6, 2022, at 10:56 PM, Stan Sieler via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found a bunch of original HP 150 software on 3.5" floppies ...
> any HP 150 collectors here?Free, pickup, Cupertino.
> 
> Includes the following.  About 1/2 are original disks.
> 
> The most unusual are probably the compilers from Prospero, and the
> IMAGE-like database (Mirage?) from Datasoft International (the developer
> was likely Michel Kohon, from France, and a member of the HP 3000
> community).
> 
> Datacom:
>   DSN/Link
>   HP PCLink
>   Kermit
>   PC2622
>   Reflection 1 Plus
> 
> Misc / Unknown:
>   Ally/150
>   Application Master Extended I/O Application
>   Cardfile (full app)
>   Cardfile demo
>   Computer tutor 150
>   Edit/150 from KSD systems Limited
>   Infocom sampler
>   Interex CSL/100 volume 56
>   Interex CSL150  (contributed library)
>   Mentor version 1.E.1 from KSD systems Limited
>   System demo
>   Thinkjet demo
>   Visicalc
> 
> Games:
>   Tick Tock, Radar, Othello, others
>   Type attack, Temple of Apshai, Ricochet
>   Winning Deal
>   Zork
> 
> Programming...
>   C (unknown...just says "C" on label)
>   Lattice C
>   MASM
>   Modula 2
>   MVP Forth (on misc games floppy)
>   Pro Fortran from Prospero
>  Pro For 1  (possibly same as above)
>   Pro Pascal from Prospero
>   Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
> 
>   ISV Development  (from HP)
>   ISV revision A.1.2 (Independent Software Vendor toolkit from HP?)
>   Programmers Toolkit  (HP)
>   Programmers tools: debug, sort, find, edlin, ece2bin, ...more... (HP)
> 
> Database: ???
>   Mirager Version ii 2.A.1 Datasoft International
>   Mirage Library
>   Mirage I
> 
> //


[cctalk] Re: HP 150 software

2022-09-06 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
A pity! Too far from az for pickup   Ed#

Sent from the all new AOL app for Android 
 
  On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 10:56 PM, Stan Sieler via 
cctalk wrote:   Hi,

I found a bunch of original HP 150 software on 3.5" floppies ...
any HP 150 collectors here?    Free, pickup, Cupertino.

Includes the following.  About 1/2 are original disks.

The most unusual are probably the compilers from Prospero, and the
IMAGE-like database (Mirage?) from Datasoft International (the developer
was likely Michel Kohon, from France, and a member of the HP 3000
community).

Datacom:
  DSN/Link
  HP PCLink
  Kermit
  PC2622
  Reflection 1 Plus

Misc / Unknown:
  Ally/150
  Application Master Extended I/O Application
  Cardfile (full app)
  Cardfile demo
  Computer tutor 150
  Edit/150 from KSD systems Limited
  Infocom sampler
  Interex CSL/100 volume 56
  Interex CSL150  (contributed library)
  Mentor version 1.E.1 from KSD systems Limited
  System demo
  Thinkjet demo
  Visicalc

Games:
  Tick Tock, Radar, Othello, others
  Type attack, Temple of Apshai, Ricochet
  Winning Deal
  Zork

Programming...
  C (unknown...just says "C" on label)
  Lattice C
  MASM
  Modula 2
  MVP Forth (on misc games floppy)
  Pro Fortran from Prospero
      Pro For 1  (possibly same as above)
  Pro Pascal from Prospero
  Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0

  ISV Development  (from HP)
  ISV revision A.1.2 (Independent Software Vendor toolkit from HP?)
  Programmers Toolkit  (HP)
  Programmers tools: debug, sort, find, edlin, ece2bin, ...more... (HP)

Database: ???
  Mirager Version ii 2.A.1 Datasoft International
  Mirage Library
  Mirage I

//