[cctalk] iPaqs free to good home (UK)
Folks, While looking for something else I found few iPaqs. There are two later models, mud coloured with plastic screen covers both work fine. Sadly the silver one with the battery has a broken clip, so you need to secure it some how works if you do this. The one with the missing door does nothing. There are two power bricks, one USB lead, one docking station. No stylus. Can't remember when I last looked at these. Free collection from Manchester. Dave
[cctalk] Re: Intel 4004(sp?)
great old "Scelbi 8008 " article in killobaud or Byte in one if the EARLY Issues! Ed# In a message dated 11/25/2023 7:34:21 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: Sorry if not linked correctly - looking through the list via the archives.."reply" option doesn't seem to work (at least for me - older Chrome) >but my understanding was that the 4004 and 8008 were effectively developed>at the same time? And were announced or available about within one month>of each other? I believe they were, although I never had much experience with the 4004...I did play a bit with the 8008 - and wrote a simulator/emulator for the8008 system I had, a Canadian: MIL (Microsystems International Limited) MOD8 (Modular-8) it was also available as: GNC8 (Great Northern Computers) 8008 You can get MOD8 simulator from "Daves Old Computers" and actuallyexperienceusing an 8008 based system including the built in "MONITOR-8" ROM softwareaswell as "Scelbi 8008 BASIC" (one of the earliest) - source to bothprovided. If you care to, I included ASM88 (my 8008 cross assembler) so you can trywriting and running 8008 code! -Be aware that MOD8.COM itself is pretty old and is 16-bit DOS software.This means it WON'T run under modern Windows, but it does work well inDosBox (I recommend the one I have on my site) Dave Dunfield - https://dunfield.themindfactory.com -- --Search "Dave's Old Computers" see "my personal" at bottom!
[cctalk] Re: It's been a while - retirement project
Dave, Thanks so much for the wonderful IMD utility. While I have you on the horn, can I have you look into a small bug in IMD, related to using it to make HP LIF disks. I was trying to format an HP LIF disk from IMD (77 tracks, 30 sectors, 5 interleave, 512 MFM encoding, 256 bytes per sector). Which I can configure IMD for using the interactive user interface. EXCEPT it won't accept entering sector numbering starting from 0 to 29. It always wants to start at 1. However, if I use the command line utility to make an image using BIN2IMD BIN2IMD input.bin out.imd N=77 DM=3 SS=256 SM=0-29 /2 And then reconstitute a disc from that image, it works, sectors are correctly numbered 0 to 29. So it looks like it's just a trivial bug in the interactive user interface. Sorry to annoy and thanks again for all your contributions. Marc -Original Message- From: Dave Dunfield via cctalk Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2023 11:25 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: Dave Dunfield <1297.dunfi...@gmail.com> Subject: [cctalk] It's been a while - retirement project Hi, this is "Dave Dunfield" - best known here for being the site owner of "Daves Old Computers" and the author of "ImageDisk" No longer have the email I used to use to access cctalk... (hence the change) Just in case anyone is interested: I've been working on a "retirement" project: I am publishing some 40+ years worth of source code to "stuff I've written". This includes my DDS products, lots of "internal tools and utilities" and other misc. "stuff". Of special interest to cctalk members, this include my Altair, Horizon, H8, D6809, MOD8, ImageDisk and some other related material. Most of it is C (mainly for my own compiler - one of the items), some in assembly, and a few "custom languages". Available from my personal site: https://dunfield.themindfactory.com or go to: "Daves Old Computers" -> "Personal" Please note that I no longer monitor these forums on a regular basis. Anyone wishing to reach me, please see the "contact" link on my site. Dave -- -- Search "Dave's Old Computers" see "my personal" at bottom!
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[cctalk] It's been a while - retirement project
>26 Nov 8:14 p.m. >I was trying to format an HP LIF disk from IMD (77 tracks, 30 sectors, >5 interleave, 512 MFM encoding, 256 bytes per sector). Which I can configure >IMD for using the interactive user interface. EXCEPT it won't >accept entering sector numbering starting from 0 to 29. It always wants to >start at 1. >So it looks like it's just a trivial bug in the interactive user interface. Hi Marc, I'll look into it - it will take me a while as I have to dig out and set up a real DOS IMD system... [anyone know it there's a usable web interface to CCTALK? I browse it through the ARCHIVE on CCTALK.COM - it's a web interface which presents "reply" button - but it doesn't work - so I have to cut/paste/edit the existing post and send it back by email - and HOPE that it finds its way to the proper thread!] Dave -- -- Search "Dave's Old Computers" see "my personal" at bottom!
