Is anyone familiar with PC-51 and/or CoreNET?
These are IBM 5110/5120 related tools developed by an individual in the
early 1980s.
My understanding is PC-51 was an emulator that ran BASIC programs from the
IBM 5110. One keyword new in the IBM 5110 was the "FORMS" keyboard, and
you could define
On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
always imagined it would be possible to "bit bang" across these external IO
pins with some PALM-assembly -- the machine should be fast enough to encode
7-bit ASCII at 300 baud across those pins, maybe 1200. I'm not sure if
The PALM and thus the 51[012]0
> Remember: this card is absolutely dumb, it essentially only has shift
> registers and a clock generator
Ah, the clock might be important. I was thinking of a terminal that could
be written without the async card, and using maybe 3 pins on those set of
external DB25 connectors. This is possibl
David,
> With only a few exceptions, the museum's entire collection of HP hardware,
> software and manuals has now been shipped from Melbourne, Australia, to
> HPCA's archival company - Heritage Werks Inc, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The
> equipment will be catalogued and preserved as a record of H
I have a few old exabyte tapes of possible historic value. Who can I pay to
get them recovered that has the best chance of success?
Warner
Just yesterday, I received the following notes from Hal Prewitt of CORE
(see below).
Some highlights:
- confirmation that use of async, comm, parallel card was not necessary
- from the PC51 manual, their hard drives were accessed as "device 08" (D08
instead of D80 for the IBM disk drive)
- gives m
