Re: [ql-users] Disk drive wanted
In a message dated 06/07/2004 00:42:15 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't forget that some of the Cumana interfaces have reversed connections for the drives ! Damn - I have a set of Cumana drives here (untested at the mo). Maybe the best answer is for you to take a set across Roy and you can sort him out at the meeting (presuming you and he both attend ) -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services 35 Chantry Croft, Kinsley, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF9 5JH TEL: 01977 610509 Visit our website at URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk Stuck with ordinary dial up internet connection ?? Read our review of internet accelerators and broadband at: URL: http://www.rwapadventures.com/Services/reviews.html ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Disk drive wanted
Don't forget that some of the Cumana interfaces have reversed connections for the drives ! Damn - I have a set of Cumana drives here (untested at the mo). Maybe the best answer is for you to take a set across Roy and you can sort him out at the meeting (presuming you and he both attend ) Just to complicate matters, some of the drives or interfaces had the locating notch on the connector chopped off so as to be compatible with either connection. I've seen a few with no locating notch in my time, especially ex-BBC micro drives modified to work with the early QL interfaces with wrong-way-round connectors. If so, it might be an idea to mark the connector with a dab of something in a different colour to highlight which way it goes into a QL interface. I'm sure I've managed to plug one of these in the wrong way round before today and it survived to tell the tale (I think that was with one of the earliest CST interfaces), though I don't know if I was just lucky or of the worst effect is that it simply doesn't work until plugged in the right way round. -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] 5.25 inch drive wanted
Does anyone have an 80-track double sided 5.25 inch disk drive they don't want? A single drive would be adequate. Must be cased, with PSU and ready to plug in and go. I have a number of 5.25 inch disks I wish to try to copy (including one with source files for a very old program of mine I wish to try to update). Must be 80 track double sided, i.e. formats disks to 1440 sectors. I have a 5.25 inch drive here but it doesn't work after being in the loft unused for about 5 years! If anyone has suggestions how it may be brought back to life ... it powers up, responds to DIR FLP1_ but fails to read all my old 5.25 inch disks, consistently giving bad or changed medium errors (heads may be damaged or misaligned perhaps), yet Christopher Cave kindly helped me copy a few such disks some time ago which proved the disks were readable in his drives at least, but there are too many of these old disks here to ask him to help again, anyhow I guess 90% of them will probably have nothing useful on them. One last scan through them before they get disposed of. -- Dilwyn Jones ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] 5.25 inch drive wanted
I'm sure I've gone one or two running around, but I'm not so sure you want to ship all the way from the US. I can be a last resort. Tim Swenson ___ Internet Access, Shared Dedicated Web Hosting. Colocation and Domain Name Registration at http://www.SharedPoint.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] LRESPR'ed TK2
I'm trying out UQLX under Linux. I've got a copy of TK2_BIN that I used to run on my QL before I got a Gold Card. Every time I load it and CALL it, the emulator freezes. Anybody got a version that is known to work under UQLX? Tim Swenson ___ Internet Access, Shared Dedicated Web Hosting. Colocation and Domain Name Registration at http://www.SharedPoint.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Disk drive wanted
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 at 18:33:42, Dilwyn Jones wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Don't forget that some of the Cumana interfaces have reversed connections for the drives ! Damn - I have a set of Cumana drives here (untested at the mo). Maybe the best answer is for you to take a set across Roy and you can sort him out at the meeting (presuming you and he both attend ) Just to complicate matters, some of the drives or interfaces had the locating notch on the connector chopped off so as to be compatible with either connection. I've seen a few with no locating notch in my time, especially ex-BBC micro drives modified to work with the early QL interfaces with wrong-way-round connectors. If so, it might be an idea to mark the connector with a dab of something in a different colour to highlight which way it goes into a QL interface. If the disk light is permanently on, then it is the worng way. It doesn't do any harm, unless it is a medic drive where they had power on the lead! I'm sure I've managed to plug one of these in the wrong way round before today and it survived to tell the tale (I think that was with one of the earliest CST interfaces), though I don't know if I was just lucky or of the worst effect is that it simply doesn't work until plugged in the right way round. Yep - no harm. -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://www.firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] LRESPR'ed TK2
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:12:25 -0700, Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying out UQLX under Linux. I've got a copy of TK2_BIN that I used to run on my QL before I got a Gold Card. Every time I load it and CALL it, the emulator freezes. Anybody got a version that is known to work under UQLX? Yes the Rom version works fine Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] LRESPR'ed TK2
The problem with the ROM version is getting it. If I can extract the JSU rom out of my Gold Card system will it also contain the TK2 code? Tim Swenson ___ Internet Access, Shared Dedicated Web Hosting. Colocation and Domain Name Registration at http://www.SharedPoint.com ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] OT: Who taught the Greeks to play football ?
Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:10:18 +0100, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahooo :-) Hehe Too bad for the BBC Sport commentators ;-) They were all proven wrong ;-) CHeers :-) Nice to see the outsider win ... well done to Greece ! As they beat the holders - France, the host nation - Portugal ( twice ), and the other strong outsiders - the Czechs ... I guess they really earned it :-) You know why they beat them? The French, Portugese Czechs took one look at their opposition playing football and couldn't work it out: it was all Greek to them... ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] OT: Who taught the Greeks to play football ?
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:12:57 +0100, Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Malcolm Cadman wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phoebus R. Dokos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:10:18 +0100, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yahooo :-) Hehe Too bad for the BBC Sport commentators ;-) They were all proven wrong ;-) CHeers :-) Nice to see the outsider win ... well done to Greece ! As they beat the holders - France, the host nation - Portugal ( twice ), and the other strong outsiders - the Czechs ... I guess they really earned it :-) You know why they beat them? The French, Portugese Czechs took one look at their opposition playing football and couldn't work it out: it was all Greek to them... *bzz* Wrong :-) They were actually playing German football ;-) (Which I take it should be equally foreign ;-) to them :-P Phoebus ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] OT: Who taught the Greeks to play football ?
*bzz* Wrong :-) They were actually playing German football ;-) yeahh, better than the german did ;- (Which I take it should be equally foreign ;-) to them :-P ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
[ql-users] 5.25 inch drive wanted
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a couple of 5 1/4 drives sitting next to me at this moment. It would give me great pleasure to get rid of them other than to the Croydon tip. Both are Cumana drives and at least one has its own power supply. Over to you Dilwyn. Christopher Cave ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
Re: [ql-users] Disk drive wanted
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm sure I've managed to plug one of these in the wrong way round before today and it survived to tell the tale (I think that was with one of the earliest CST interfaces), though I don't know if I was just lucky or of the worst effect is that it simply doesn't work until plugged in the right way round. All that happens if you plug it in round the wrong way is that the lights light up and the drives spin. Mind you if there is a disk in one of the drives when you do this it can be destroyed. If you look at the wiring one side of the IDC is all earth lines so I am not sure why this happens but I have done it and it does. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
