On 9/8/2023 5:07 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
On Sep 8, 2023, at 6:20 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
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On 9/7/2023 9:20 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:49 PM ste...@malikoff.com steven--- via
cctalk wrote:
Here in Oz, VAX has been a popular brand of vacuum
On 9/8/23 15:20, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
pretty well and BIOS/ancient OSes not at all!
>
> It would still be handy to have a USB device that operates as a "normal"
> fully functional FDC.
> It would make it possible to add floppies to devices without them,
> and/or add more or different
On 9/8/23 15:00, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> The drive is a Qume Qumetrak 242 so I assume soft sector? I'm open to
> correction.
>
Mostly. Most drives can, with the proper logic be made to read and
write hard-sector disks. You just don't get separate SECTOR/ and INDEX/
Zane is it accessible remotely? Just curious..
-Ken
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 5:17 PM Zane Healy via cctalk
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> > On Sep 8, 2023, at 6:20 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> > On 9/7/2023 9:20 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 7,
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 4:02 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> I always wanted the Sorrento Valley FDC for Apple2
>
I've seen one in the wild before, but the guy didn't want to sell it with
the pile of Lisas I bought from him. It's possible I have documentation
for it.
Does "more popular"
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
I have had better luck with a P-III motherboard that connects to the 34-50
pin adapter in the middle and 8" on the other end. This way you can trick
the BIOS of the computer to think the 8" drive is a 1.2Mb 5 1/4". With
this set up I have made
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
The Apple Disk ][ information needs some editing as well. And then there's
the part suggesting the Commodore 1541 was more popular than the Disk ][.
What utter pishposh.
There are many details to flesh out things such as Apple, such as 13
I have had better luck with a P-III motherboard that connects to the 34-50
pin adapter in the middle and 8" on the other end. This way you can trick
the BIOS of the computer to think the 8" drive is a 1.2Mb 5 1/4". With
this set up I have made a bootable DOS 6.22 8" disk, so I know it works.
It would still be handy to have a USB device that operates as a "normal"
fully functional FDC.
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Anders Nelson wrote:
I agree, and that generic USB FDC is already available:
https://github.com/dhansel/ArduinoFDC
If I can simply select 5 1/4 floppy mode and it'll work with an
The Apple Disk ][ information needs some editing as well. And then there's
the part suggesting the Commodore 1541 was more popular than the Disk ][.
What utter pishposh.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM Liam Proven via cctalk
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> On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
I agree, and that generic USB FDC is already available:
https://github.com/dhansel/ArduinoFDC
If I can simply select 5 1/4 floppy mode and it'll work with an 8" disk, I
guess I don't need anything else?
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 6:20 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> but presents itself to an
but presents itself to an OS as a Mass Storage Device (block device).
Anders, for what practical purpose would you do that?
It’s not like there’s so many 8 inch floppies around to make it feasible.
You would have to have a LOT of intelligence in the Usb interface due to
the different physical
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> When Ronald Reagan got into politics, I wrote him a postcard pleading him
> NOT TO. I said, "Hollywood needs you."
It's a real shame that didn't work.
AIUI the repeal of Glass-Steagal caused a lot of the problems we're in
today,
Hi Chuck,
The drive is a Qume Qumetrak 242 so I assume soft sector? I'm open to
correction.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 4:15 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I just bought a very clean, DSDD 8" disk drive off eBay and it has a 50p
>
Hi Wayne,
For sure the controller would have to do a lot more, but I know firmware
pretty well and BIOS/ancient OSes not at all!
On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 4:22 PM Wayne S via cctalk
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Sep 8, 2023, at 13:16, Wayne S wrote:
> >
> >> but presents itself to an
He has an "About Me" page,and even his CV, but goes to some effort to
avoid stating his NAME! (Jonathan Pallant)
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
I noticed that, too. I think it's [a] the modern internet way, and [2]
may be connected with his efforts to get into politics...
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:41, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> He has an "About Me" page,and even his CV, but goes to some effort to
> avoid stating his NAME! (Jonathan Pallant)
I noticed that, too. I think it's [a] the modern internet way, and [2]
may be connected with his efforts to get into
It's got some really good stuff, but some things that are awkward,
although few totally WRONG.
[...]
Overall, a good start, for MOST aspects.
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
That is high praise indeed, I think! :-)
He has an "About Me" page,and even his CV, but goes to
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 22:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> It's got some really good stuff, but some things that are awkward,
> although few totally WRONG.
[...]
> Overall, a good start, for MOST aspects.
That is high praise indeed, I think! :-)
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Everything I know about floppy disks
2023-08-28
Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that ingest
those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only really see them
now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot
> On Sep 8, 2023, at 6:20 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On 9/7/2023 9:20 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:49 PM ste...@malikoff.com steven--- via
>> cctalk wrote:
>>> Here in Oz, VAX has been a popular brand of vacuum cleaner for many
>>>
«
Everything I know about floppy disks
2023-08-28
Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that
ingest those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only
really see them now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot going on in
that humble square of plastic and
But more reasonable. Get down to 4k and it's interesting.
C
On 9/8/2023 4:12 PM, Milo Velimirović via cctalk wrote:
On Sep 8, 2023, at 1:15 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
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Price change,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126067408991
Bill
Still too spicy :)
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 8, 2023, at 13:16, Wayne S wrote:
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>> but presents itself to an OS as a Mass Storage Device (block device).
Anders, for what practical purpose would you do that?
It’s not like there’s so many 8 inch floppies around to make it feasible. You
would have to have a
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 8, 2023, at 13:15, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I just bought a very clean, DSDD 8" disk drive off eBay and it has a 50p
>> connector which I guess is the common Shugart type? I also found a
On Fri, 8 Sep 2023, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
Hi all,
I just bought a very clean, DSDD 8" disk drive off eBay and it has a 50p
connector which I guess is the common Shugart type? I also found a 50p->
34p adaptor PCB design someone documented online.
very few of the lines need to be
> On Sep 8, 2023, at 1:15 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Price change,
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/126067408991
> Bill
Still too spicy :)
On 9/8/23 12:58, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just bought a very clean, DSDD 8" disk drive off eBay and it has a 50p
> connector which I guess is the common Shugart type? I also found a 50p->
> 34p adaptor PCB design someone documented online.
>
> I haven't delved much into
Hi all,
I just bought a very clean, DSDD 8" disk drive off eBay and it has a 50p
connector which I guess is the common Shugart type? I also found a 50p->
34p adaptor PCB design someone documented online.
I haven't delved much into floppy formats (high level or low level) but I'm
somewhat
Re: ipad 3 lack of support.
What gets me the most is that Apple doesn’t seem to allow old versions of app
on the store anymore. Seems that they force developers to use the newer SDK
which only supports IOS 10 and above. Hate That with a passion.
Take care.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 8,
Re: PDF
I use a free app Pdfreader to view and usually just email the pdfs i want to
read and save them that way.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 8, 2023, at 11:48, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S wrote:
>>
>> I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely
On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:23, Wayne S wrote:
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> I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it
> until apple made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some
> apps, like Amazon Prime TV, were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply
> stopped working.
I have an ipad 3 and it was absolutely great. Everything worked well on it
until apple made IOS 10 which doesn’t run on it. Then, gradually, some apps,
like Amazon Prime TV, were upgraded to use 10 and above and simply stopped
working.
I probably won’t buy another Ipad just because of that.
Price change,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126067408991
Bill
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 17:25, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
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> I swear to God, Discord will be the end of the open Internet, it's where
> information goes to die. I hate it with every fiber of my being. And yes, I
> use it, I'm on many servers. I'm still allowed to detest it.
100% agreement
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 02:59, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
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> I used a newton and still have it a box.
I have 2 of them myself.
> It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t work very well either.
The OMP was.
I later bought a Newton 2100 and it's a very different beast. It's
quite usable by
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 01:29, Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Then, one of the Sci-Fi magazines [...] in which the capsule settled down
> onto the moon, and
> immediately sank irrevocably below kilometer thick layer of dust.
I am strongly reminded of _A Fall of Moondust_ by Arthur C. Clarke.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 01:05, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
>
> I have been experimenting with GhostBSD 64bit. It runs quite well under
> Virtualbox
Sorry for the very slow reply... Work is burying me, and I am somewhat
crippled due to a pulverised right forearm.
I am glad you've found something
On 9/8/2023 9:29 AM, Raymond Wiker via cctalk wrote:
On 8 Sep 2023, at 15:20, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
On 9/7/2023 9:20 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:49 PM ste...@malikoff.com steven--- via
cctalk wrote:
Here in Oz, VAX has been a popular brand of
> On 8 Sep 2023, at 15:20, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/7/2023 9:20 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:49 PM ste...@malikoff.com steven--- via
>> cctalk wrote:
>>> Here in Oz, VAX has been a popular brand of vacuum cleaner for many
>>> decades.
On 9/7/2023 9:20 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 4:49 PM ste...@malikoff.com steven--- via
cctalk wrote:
Here in Oz, VAX has been a popular brand of vacuum cleaner for many decades. We
had one until recently.
https://www.vax.com.au/
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