On Apr 12, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
> I still have a pre-wifi 13" long ISA WaveLan card that is in the 915mhz ISM
> band sitting on a shelf.
Weird Stuff had one too when last I was there.
-- Chris
On Apr 17, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
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> On 04/17/2017 01:23 PM, Guy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
>> I think timing had a lot to do with C's success.
>>
>> It's a decent language and at the time powerful and flexible compared
>> to other languages. Universities picked up UNIX
On 04/17/2017 09:20 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Is track 0 sector 1, formatted as 512BPS? If not, how does it even
> come up with the idea to try 1024BPS? (in order to read it, to find
> out that it should try it for reading it...)
>
> (at location 0Bh in the BIOS Parameter Block, is the bytes per
>
I got a request through my web site for a CP/M System Boot Disk for the
Morrow Disk Jockey DMA Controller Board. Anyone have an image I could make
to help this guy out?
Thanks
BIll
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
WinNT/2K/XP will read Japanese PC98 MS-DOS 1024*8*2*77, but I don't know
if it'll format that particular format (never tried).
Doubtful on FORMAT, since that is working from a very short list of
choices, but reading (and hence writing) can be
On 04/17/2017 07:01 PM, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, the point is Fred, it didn't. So, if /N is 15, then it must
> ONLY accept T:40 or 80, yea?
WinNT/2K/XP will read Japanese PC98 MS-DOS 1024*8*2*77, but I don't know
if it'll format that particular format (never tried).
--Chuck
>If you can find an old registered copy of FORMATQM, it allowed very
>flexible formatting. So, you could format a DMF floppy by defining a
>format in the FORMATS.CFG file thus:
Reminds me of NEWDOS/80 V2 on the TRS-80 Mod 1/III. The PDRIVE command let
you define your very own disk format!
No o
On 04/17/2017 05:43 PM, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote:
>>> It may also be that is just doesn't support 77 and can only do 80
>>> tracks.
>
>> I don't think it is this. I can format it fine with 77 tracks
>> using 22DSK
> and IMD. It has no problem reading or >writing to 77 track formatted
> dis
>>It may also be that is just doesn't support 77 and can only do 80 tracks.
>I don't think it is this. I can format it fine with 77 tracks using 22DSK
and IMD. It has no problem reading or >writing to 77 track formatted disks.
Oh sorry Dwight, I thought you meant the drive here. You mean MS-DO
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Some times it reads part of the disk. I don't know what it is looking at
but it won't format over some types of original data. I've often erased
with supper magnet to get past such stuff.
That really got silly when they added "UNFORMAT"!
It may a
>It may also be that is just doesn't support 77 and can only do 80 tracks.
I don't think it is this. I can format it fine with 77 tracks using 22DSK
and IMD. It has no problem reading or writing to 77 track formatted disks.
Terry
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote:
I'm puzzled why I couldn't format the disk using the /t:77 and /n:15
switches. Did MS-DOS just go by what was in the CMOS. If that's the case,
why have those switches at all? Are they just legacy switches for
pre-CMOS machines?
The /T: an
Some times it reads part of the disk. I don't know what it is looking at but it
won't format over some types of original data. I've often erased with supper
magnet to get past such stuff.
It may also be that is just doesn't support 77 and can only do 80 tracks.
Dwight
>Here's a writeup for those interested:
>http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2017-04-15-
adventures-with-an-8-inch-disk-drive-part1.htm
One thing in this project puzzled me. Initially when I was testing the
drive I tried to format it for 77-tracks. I used the command FORMAT B: /u
/T:77 /N:1
On 4/17/2017 1:11 PM, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
There was an invoice that says they're Kennedy 9000-3, 4s models.
Wow! One of those would be very cool to get. I can't find any information on the
"4S" model, though. I am wondering if it has a SCSI interface. If it does,
even better.
Just a heads-up that the 1979 edition of the "pdp11 bus handbook" has a very
serious editing error in it, in the description of UNIBUS arbitration.
On page 38, immediately after step 13 of the NPR Arbitration Sequence
("13. SACK must be negated before BBSY may be negated."), it says "A bus
ma
On 04/17/2017 01:23 PM, Guy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
> I think timing had a lot to do with C's success.
>
> It's a decent language and at the time powerful and flexible compared
> to other languages. Universities picked up UNIX and C and taught a
> lot of students. The went forth taking their skil
Sorry all, this was meant to be a personal Email. Still haven't gotten used
to the new way that the list works.
My apologies.
-Rick
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I think timing had a lot to do with C's success.
It's a decent language and at the time powerful and flexible compared to
other languages. Universities picked up UNIX and C and taught a lot of
students. The went forth taking their skills with them.
On 16 April 2017 at 01:56, Charles Dickman via c
> I was helping out someone here locally to dig thru a pile of electronics that
> he had obtained in helping out a woman clean out her house.
> Her husband passed away and she wanted the space back. Apparently the
> husband "somehow" dealt in HW repair.
> A good number of the items were known b
I was helping out someone here locally to dig thru a pile of electronics
that he had obtained in helping out a woman clean out her house.
Her husband passed away and she wanted the space back. Apparently the
husband "somehow" dealt in HW repair.
A good number of the items were known broken spares
Hi Tez
You where lucky. You had a format that was more or less standard. I have disk
done in formats that are not so common.
One was a real toughie. I had some 5.25 and some 8 inch hard sectored disk in
MFM format. These were for the Polymorphic machines. I'd modified a Polymorphic
8 inch co
> On Apr 16, 2017, at 8:13 PM, Tim Mann via cctech
> wrote:
>
> I hadn't heard of the MISE or M3SE before, so I googled. Remarkable
> projects. It's pretty tempting to get an M3SE to play with on the Model 4P
> that I bought as a reference platform when I was adding 4P support to xtrs.
> (I don
From: cctech [cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Tim Mann via cctech
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Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2017 8:13 PM
To: cct...@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: cctech Digest, Vol 34, Issue 15
Brief comments on a couple of topics...
I ha
Hi,
Just an update on this. I still haven't got those 8' floppies of unknown
origin to play with but I HAVE made a lot of progress with my own disks.
Thanks to everyone who gave me help with this.
Here's a writeup for those interested:
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2017-04-15-adventur
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