[cctalk] Dysan 208-21 alignment disk - what is it for?

2022-08-02 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hi there, Does anyone have the spec sheet for the Dysan 208-21 alignment disk, or know what drive it's intended to be used with? I've got the information sheet which comes with the disk, but it doesn't identify the tracks-per-inch or track count. It's a 5.25in double-sided disk; the info sh

WTD - Oregon/Taumetric M68000 Pascal and Cross Assembler (VAX/VMS)

2022-03-18 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hi all, Does anyone happen to have a copy of these squirrelled away? - Oregon Pascal M68000 -- cross compiler for VAX (or any other host platform). Probably called "P68.EXE" or something similar. - Oregon / Taumetric M68000 Cross Assembler for VAX (or any other). Probably called "MASM.EX

Setting up a VMS system

2021-09-22 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hopefully a few of the DEC/VMS fans here might be able to help! I'm on a bit of a quest. I've been given some old VAX/VMS software -- a cross compiler and some source code -- that I'd like to get running. My goal is to get the source code building and experiment with the compiler a bit. Prob

Looking for Maxtor LXT/MXT series firmware updates / docs

2021-07-13 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hi folks, Has anyone happened to squirrel away a copy of the Maxtor/Sequel LXT or MXT series documentation or firmware updates? I've got an LXT200A sat on the bench which seems to have corrupted on-disk firmware -- the firmware version is shown as "1.02BROM" I've got an identical second drive

Oregon Pascal for M68000

2021-03-19 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hi all, Does anyone have any documentation (or perhaps even a copy?) of Oregon Pascal for the Motorola 68000? I'm looking for information on its calling convention, if such is available -- or otherwise a way to run it with arbitrary code and see how it behaves. Once again I'm reverse-engin

WTD - Jupiter Ace plastic rivets

2020-12-03 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Has anyone got a couple of the white plastic rivets which are used to hold the Jupiter Ace case together? They consist of a 4-point clawed rivet of about 5mm long, and a pin which pushes down the centre to open it out. I need five of them ideally - but even two or three would get the case buttone

Re: Unix-PC

2018-04-11 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
On 25/03/18 00:39, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > > On 03/24/2018 07:58 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > > The Unix-PC has found a new home in the hands of someone > I am sure will enjo

Re: WeirdStuff going out of business

2018-04-06 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
On 06/04/18 17:54, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: > Zane, > > The Country Store is still going, and while you are there check the museum, > VintageTek next door. > > Surplus Gizmos in Hillsboro looks to still be in business: > > http://www.surplusgizmos.com/ > > Welcome to SurplusGizmos.com, L

Re: Kodak Diconix 150plus - looking for info

2017-12-06 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
On 30/11/17 19:46, Philip Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > It looks like the DIP switches are the same as the 150 - William Degnan > posted a link to those. Update -- the DIP switch settings are *not* the same as the 150. I finally found the 150 Plus settings in an old Usenet post:

Re: Kodak Diconix 150plus - looking for info

2017-11-30 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
On 27/11/17 03:26, Robert Feldman via cctalk wrote: >> I'm mainly looking for a DIP switch table (annoyingly, it won't produce >> a config print - just a test page). I'd also love to find some details >> on the control codes, emulations and character sets it supports. > > The 180si does not use DI

Re: Kodak Diconix 150plus - looking for info

2017-11-30 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
On 26/11/17 14:15, Tony Duell wrote: >> I wonder if the 51604A cartridges still need them. > > I can't remember the number of the cartridge I used, but it came in > a little foil tub (a bit like the ones you get jam in at hotel > breakfasts.). In the tub was the cartridge and the absorbing strip.

Re: Kodak Diconix 150plus - looking for info

2017-11-26 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
On 26/11/17 06:17, Tony Duell wrote: >> Also - does anyone know what the material on the printhead capping >> station is, or if they're still available? >> It looks like a cardboard or blotting paper pad with a plastic backing >> card. This one is soaked in ink and looks like it could do with being

Kodak Diconix 150plus - looking for info

2017-11-25 Thread Philip Pemberton via cctalk
Hi folks, I just picked up a Kodak Diconix 150 Plus portable inkjet printer. No power supply or documentation, but it works fine. It appears to be a variant of HP's Thinkjet (it certainly uses the same cartridges) tweaked for portable use. Looking inside, it's full of Chinon ICs, and was apparentl

Re: need (physical) key for Sun SPARCserver 1000e

2017-02-14 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 13/02/17 07:58, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote: > On 2017-02-12 07:59, Philip Pemberton wrote: >> On 09/02/17 20:06, Mark G Thomas wrote: >>> http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/sunkey/ >>> >>> I thought maybe having a picture would help in finding the correct

Re: need (physical) key for Sun SPARCserver 1000e

2017-02-12 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 09/02/17 20:06, Mark G Thomas wrote: > http://files.markgthomas.com/dl/sunkey/ > > I thought maybe having a picture would help in finding the correct key. A little part of me wants to get hold of one of these keys and the matching lock, match it to a key blank and measure the bitting... Che

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-22 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 22/10/16 20:21, Fred Cisin wrote: > But "Marketing" convinced the public that Macs were IMMUNE TO GETTING > VIRUSES!:-) And "Engineering" (aka some teenager playing on their parents' Mac) decided to convince Marketing that they were wrong? And the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevita

Re: Any Kryoflux, Discferret, Catweasel, or other floppy flux images wanted

2016-10-13 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 13/10/16 11:39, Santo Nucifora wrote: > Hi Eric, > > First off, thanks for attempting this. I spent last night trying to > recreate a disk using the CP/M-86 streams I had posted with the Kryoflux > and failed. I'm going to play with it a little until I can get a working > reproduction so I wo

Re: Wanted - two 27C010-capable EPROM emulators

2016-09-04 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 01/09/16 04:11, Glen Slick wrote: > Grammar Engine PromICE units show up on eBay from time to time in the > US sometimes around the $20 range for just the box alone. Then you > need to supply your own power adapter and ribbon cable DIP plug > adapters. Ahh - I hadn't heard of the PromICE. Than

Re: Wanted - two 27C010-capable EPROM emulators

2016-09-04 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 01/09/16 13:00, Alexandre Souza wrote: > >Can't you roll your own? It is SO easy to build one, if you don't > mind the hassle!? I was looking at that option, but I still have repressed memories from the last one I designed :P Getting the PCB layout onto two layers was hell. If I did it a

Wanted - two 27C010-capable EPROM emulators

2016-08-31 Thread Philip Pemberton
Hi there, Does anyone have a pair of spare EPROM emulators which are capable of emulating 27C010 EPROMs? Ideally two identical ones, but that's optional. I'm trying to reverse-engineer a Securicor Datatrak MkII navigation receiver and build a signal generator which can emulate a chain of Datatra

Re: CDC 9429 Floppy maintenance manual

2016-05-08 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 08/05/16 21:49, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 05/08/2016 01:30 PM, tony duell wrote: > >> They are considerably better than the Shugart drives with the plastic >> disk with a spiral groove for the head positioner > > Ah yes, the SA-400. When I was evaluating one, I wondered if Shugart > was rea

Microscience HH-1090 MFM hard disk manuals

2016-04-19 Thread Philip Pemberton
Hi there, Does anyone happen to have any manuals kicking around for Microscience MFM hard disk drives? One for the HH-1090 would be very nice -- especially if it includes service information (read: schematics). I have, as the gentleman said, a cunning plan... however, a little more information w

Re: Tool to convert between Motorola FFP and IEEE754 float formats?

2016-02-14 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 14/02/16 23:56, Philip Pemberton wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a tool which can convert between Motorola's FFP > (Fast Floating Point) float format and IEEE754? > > I'm trying to reverse-engineer some ancient 68k code which uses the FFP > library, b

Tool to convert between Motorola FFP and IEEE754 float formats?

2016-02-14 Thread Philip Pemberton
Hi, Does anyone know of a tool which can convert between Motorola's FFP (Fast Floating Point) float format and IEEE754? I'm trying to reverse-engineer some ancient 68k code which uses the FFP library, but a load of the floating point constants have been hard-coded as hex constants, which is makin

Re: IDE knowledge anyone?

2015-12-09 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 06/12/15 20:57, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Right after power up and after the disk got ready, I issue the IDENTIFY > command and read the data back which works perfectly. After that I > read sector 0 and this fails. I thought the first valid sector on an IDE disk was sector 1, CHS 0:0:1? -- Phil

1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-21 Thread Philip Pemberton
Hi there, I'm working on reverse engineering a radio navigation receiver (surprisingly not GPS, something else... Datatrak if anyone's heard of it) for the purpose of either repurposing the hardware or building up some kind of demo rig. A lot of my effort at the moment seems to be identifying C L

Re: Is tape dead?

2015-09-15 Thread Philip Pemberton
On 15/09/15 19:27, Eric Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:38 PM, drlegendre . wrote: >> To the cloud, to the CLOUD!! > > There is no cloud, just other people's computers. "Real men don't make backups, they just put their stuff on an FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it..." -- Ph