A 380Z, nice! I used to use those when I was at University. My final year project used one connected to a research machine called MU6-G for diagnostics. All the registers in the machine were connected up as one enormous shift register, so you could get and set any register in the machine from the 380Z. I wrote a program to do simple diagnostics on the machine. It was a lot of fun.
They don’t come up very often and go for more money than I can justify. Regards Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian > Graham via cctalk > Sent: 27 January 2018 19:16 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: TESTFDC > > I’d like to thank whoever it was who added the Abit K8V Pro/Winbond > W83627HF with its test results to the TESTFDC page for writing SSSD disks. > I’ve > been trying to get a similar setup going for a fortnight now and last week > found > this motherboard on e*ay for Not Many UK Pounds. Coupled with a scrap > Athlon64 system from work and a scratched Windows98 CD I eventually got it > going earlier and can now read/write single density floppies meaning I can > archive the disks I got with my Research Machines 380Z :D > > Typical of my luck a contact has also found an Adaptec 1522A that he’ll > hopefully send me too, then I’m covered for all eventualities. > > Now where did I put that 8” drive... > > — > Adrian/Witchy > Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards > w: binarydinosaurs.co.uk <http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/> t: @binarydinosaurs > f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
