Oh I'm using an MTI MQD13 card as my disk controller. It is a MCSP
controller that can interface up to 4 ESDI drives to Q Bus. Pretty fast.
Just checked the configuration and block mode DMA *is* off. Wonder what
happens if I turn it on...
It does have a lot of knobs to fiddle with, so maybe I
> From: Jerry Weiss
> uNOTE # 028 indicates that MSV-11 JB/JC (M8637-B/C) doesn't do block
> mode.
I went and looked at uNOTE #28, after I found it (it's not in the initial set
of uNOTEs, but in the second set - the so-called 'OEM uNOTEs"; note that the
numbers were re-used between th
> From: Chris Zach
> Just checked the configuration and block mode DMA *is* off.
Interesting. So it's not bklock-mode on the QBUS which is screwed up, but
normal QBUS transfers. That jibes with the comment abour "gate array
incompatibilities" (which I take to mean "errors" :-).
> wa
Sorry about the uNOTE confusion... I was focused and just used the
reference from the OEM version. I was aware but had mentally excluded
the older Microcomputer Products Group/Components Group version.
If you look at the Memory Comparison table in this OEM uNOTE, it only
lists Block Mode for
> From: Jerry Weiss
> Sorry about the uNOTE confusion..
No problem, it only took me about a minute to find the right one; my note was
to warn other people who didn't know about the number duplication.
> If you look at the Memory Comparison table in this OEM uNOTE, it only
> lists
Oh, right. Still, it sounds from reports here like regular DMA doesn't work
in QBUS mode either - and technically that table entry might mean than since
it doesn't work for the QBUS _at all_, that includes no block mode.
Regular Q bus DMA seems to be working fine. I can see the performance
diff
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 3:30 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
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> So the memory board might be bad. When the 11/83 runs memory tests the
> 1mb board (of course the one that's fixed to run on Q bus systems) fails
> out with:
>
> Testing in progress - Please wait
> Memory Size is 3072 K Bytes
> 9 Ste
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143536589578
What in the world is this?
> On 24 Apr 2020, at 23:39, Anders Nelson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/143536589578
>
> What in the world is this?
It’s a word processor, pure and simple. I have the later version and have kind
of been collecting tales of the Cassette Power Typing company of Michigan -
On 4/24/20 3:39 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/143536589578
>
> What in the world is this?
Early word processor. There's a bit on the web on it.
--Chuck
On 4/24/20 3:52 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
>
>> On 24 Apr 2020, at 23:39, Anders Nelson via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/143536589578
>>
>> What in the world is this?
>
>
> It’s a word processor, pure and simple. I have the later version and have
> kind of been col
What in the world is this?
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
It’s a word processor, pure and simple. I have the later version and
have kind of been collecting tales of the Cassette Power Typing company
of Michigan -
http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/cpt
Thank you for a
Bitsavers has some brochures on the 8000 and 6000 (cost-reduced 8000):
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/cpt/brochures/
I've got an operator's flip-style book somewhere in my stuff for the
8000. CP/M for the 8000 was announced by CPT in 1979.
--Chuck
Ya. And it’s not from Michigan but Minnesota!
You betcha.
--
Chris Elmquist
> On Apr 24, 2020, at 7:00 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>>> What in the world is this?
>
>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
>> It’s a word processor, pure and simple. I have the l
It really is a shame that little attention is paid to the early WaPro
vendors. I remember that we had an Artec system, with a floor-standing
dual 8" drive box and a Diablo KSR Hitype with an attached one-line display.
Artec was acquired by Dictaphone, who was then swallowed by Pitney
Bowes, who t
Does anybody have a wp made by AES?
In the late 70's, they were experimenting with voice recognition for
their systems. We were a nearby DEC Components OEM and had a hundred or
so LSI11/23 modules in stock. They sent an engineer over to our plant,
took out the whole stock, and replaced the 13
On 4/24/20 6:58 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote:
> Does anybody have a wp made by AES?
>
> In the late 70's, they were experimenting with voice recognition for
> their systems. We were a nearby DEC Components OEM and had a hundred or
> so LSI11/23 modules in stock. They sent an engineer over t
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