[cctalk] Does anyone have MP/M II disks/images for the Altos ACS-8000?

2022-08-22 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
I just got my Altos ACS-8000 hard disk controller repaired yesterday and was able to connect the Gesswein MFM emulator and format it, run through the read/write tests, and copy some files onto it. Now I'd like to install MP/M II, but it seems there's no archive sites anywhere that have copies of

Re: VCF?

2017-08-10 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
On Aug 7, 2017, at 12:04 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote: > I've not seen any photos posted yet. I've been posting pictures of things I brought home from VCFWest as I tinker with them to Twitter. I haven't even been posting my stuff to RetroBattlestations! Don't want to stop and organize my thoug

Kermit available for the JAIR 8080

2017-08-28 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
I got Kermit working on my JAIR 8080 which powers my IMSAI! It wasn't as simple as I expected, turned out I had a small hardware problem which Josh Bensadon helped me fix. I've posted my changes to Kermit along with a LASM compatible cross-assembler, source and tools are available here: http:

Does anyone have a working Dataspeed Conductor floppy controller?

2017-10-04 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
I acquired a Dataspeed Conductor floppy controller about a month ago in order to install it in my IMSAI with the JAIR 8080 so I could hook up some 8" floppy drives. Fortunately it came with a manual, schematics, and an example BIOS for CP/M 1.4. I've been fighting with it for quite a while thoug

Re: Question about modems

2019-11-13 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
On Nov 13, 2019, at 5:07 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > What do you need to do to use an acoustic modem with a cellphone? > You can get a "retro" handset for a cellphone, that will fit the rubber cups, > but, will it work? Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQqWHLZjOjA -- Follow me on

Re: Question about modems

2019-11-15 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
On Nov 15, 2019, at 1:54 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > MCU should set receive line coding to 8,N,1. When in command mode, you don't > care about parity Actually it's in command mode that you *do* care about parity, which is why I added the parity detection in the first place. Without the

Re: PBX (or something) for modem testing

2019-12-04 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > What sort of connection speeds are you getting? > > What codec(s) are you using? ulaw / alaw / something else? https://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/230/using-modems-without-phone-lines -- Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx Check out

Re: BASIC (Was: Reading HP2000 tapes

2018-07-18 Thread Chris Osborn via cctalk
On Jul 18, 2018, at 10:21 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > I would think that any interpreted BASIC would do this or for that matter any > interpreted language except maybe for APL You'd think so but many BASIC dialects don't fully tokenize. Many leave in all the extra spaces the user