> You rap the drive to get it unstuck, but if you rap it too hard
> the machine would reset.
I think I had a co-worker like that once.
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> At NCC - Anaheim, I bought John Draper lunch (I never exercised with him)
So what you're saying is, you increased his energy level.
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> I shared an office with a lady who got a computer from Ohio Scientific
> that had both a Z80 and a 6502.
The Commodore 128 says hi.
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I'm trying to build some prototype Tomy Tutor cartridges of my own but I'm all
thumbs in KiCad, and while prefab ones exist that I can just add an EPROM to,
they're in ExpressPCB and PCBWay wants Gerbers. This Mac won't run ExpressPCB,
or at least not in a way that wouldn't involve a significant
> You say that like fsck is reliable now...
There's a reason it's only one letter off.
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-- Premature optimization is the root of all
>> Here's something operators of older systems might find useful.
>>
>> Allied Telesis CentreCOM 210TS Twisted Pair Transciever
>> IEE 802.3 10 BASE-T (MAU)
>>
>> I have 14 used and another 14 still in the box, never been opened.
>>
>
>
> Wow!!! Maybe I should try eBay again. I was
Just a ping out there to see if anyone's sitting on installation media for
CommonPoint (the last gasp of Taligent). Seems appropriate to try to coerce it
to run on an Apple Network Server. Let me know on or off list as appropriate.
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> Interesting. So you still have got the hostid and the MAC address which might
> indicate, that the contents are not completely lost yet. Maybe just a few
> bits flipped leading to a wrong checksum (and the diag-switch? being set to
> true, leading to lng POST times)?
Maybe, but it also
> Do anyone out there have got UltraBooks or UltraBooks IIi up and running?
> Would
> highly be interested in a dump of the NVRAM/Timekeeper!!!
>
> The failed first generation UltraBook are (DS1643 NVRAM):
> (*) U20-14-9-512P with three (!!) hard drives, no battery port
> (*) U20-14-3-128B two
> I did manage to get one of those stickers off in one piece. I stored
> it on the backing paper of some rub-down letter transfers (remember
> those?) and never put it back after I completed the
> modifications/repairs. My idea was I'd put it on a unit I'd been
> inside if I did want to claim on
> Personally I use my IMSAI somewhat regularly, thats my favorite computer
> from the mid 70s.
I have an IMSAI as well, but for me my favourite computer of that era is the
KIM-1, and that's such a simple design there are tons of reimplementations
(though I prefer the original since some of them
>> Anyone seen those before, and is it actually SCSI, or is it something else?
> Common on old Sun SCSI stuff, it's a DD-50. Could be something else, but they
> were indeed used for SCSI termination.
Given what else was in there, this makes sense, and they look exactly like a
SCSI terminator
In a shipment today I got several AMP-labeled dongles that look like SCSI
terminators ... except the 50 pins are arranged in three rows (17-16-17), not
the Centronics-style 50-pin connector nor the usual 2-pin configuration.
Anyone seen those before, and is it actually SCSI, or is it something
Answering my own question for posterity:
> However, test 1, the RAM test, should show long flashes of the green LED if
> RAM
> is bad. I was prepared to see all long flashes which might implicate the
> buffers or address decoder, but instead it won't blink the LED at all in that
> or any of the
I assembled Dwight Elvey's KIM-1 debug board (thank you, Gary!) and have now
certified two of my KIMs with it, so I'm very confident the harness operates
properly.
Unfortunately, the one I *want* to repair, my original KIM-1, won't start up at
all after replacing the 2102 RAM I was pretty sure
> Anyone in MD got an AUI cable (few feet long) I can steal so I don't have to
> remove the bolts from the Pro/380's Ethernet socket or the pins on my 10bt
> ethernet MAU?
I just cheat and use a straight through DB-15 (waiting for someone to tell me
it's a DQ-15 or something instead ;), like a PC
Does anyone have one of Dwight Elvey's KIM-1 diagnostics boards out there who
would be willing to let me borrow it (I'm in southern California)? I would be
happy to pay shipping and a rental cost, provide a deposit, etc. Please contact
me off list if you're willing and the arrangements you'd
> Just letting everyone know that Bob Applegate passed away a few days ago.
> He had been battling cancer for some time. He was involved with vintage
> computing for some time. Here is his website: http://www.corshamtech.com/
>
> This is the website for his memorial:
>
> If the failure affects the EPROM monitor,then any results you get from the
> monitor are suspect.
No, what I mean is, the appearance of the upper six bits being dead was because
of how the monitor shifts in data from the keypad. Since bit 2 was always zero,
it would look like everything above
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. This board has NEC D2102AL-4 SRAMs on it,
so I ordered a couple MM2102AN-4s which look equivalent. I'll swap one in when
it arrives and see if that's the problem.
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> I thought about this, but the KIM is a pretty simple system. The only memory
> mapped device in that range (really, on the entire unit) are the RIOTs, and
> their RAM at $1780 is fine and does not echo.
>
> The KIM only does address decoding for 8K and echoes the rest, so the same
> fault is
>> Odd fault on my Rev D KIM-1 popped up while writing code this afternoon
>> (initially I thought I had a bug in my paper tape transmitter) - between
>> $0280
>> and $029f, the upper 5 bits are stuck at zero. The rest of the address range
>> seems fine. In particular, $0080-$009f, $0180-$019f
Odd fault on my Rev D KIM-1 popped up while writing code this afternoon
(initially I thought I had a bug in my paper tape transmitter) - between $0280
and $029f, the upper 5 bits are stuck at zero. The rest of the address range
seems fine. In particular, $0080-$009f, $0180-$019f and $0380-$039f
> Was there any PLATO/NovaNet arrangements with Atari like
> there was for Texas Instruments computers?
Yes, though not exactly. The TI implementation was a true, full Micro-TUTOR
runtime that ran Off-Line System lessons directly. Atari had a PLATO cartridge
that could connect to a server via
This has been around the block:
You can lose a screw in a micro.
You can lose a screwdriver in a mini.
You can get lost in a mainframe.
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Well, the weekend of hardware sudden death continues. The reason for getting
the UltraBook IIi out was to do some more work on kOpenRay, the free Sun Ray
server software I very occasionally maintain. Among other devices I use(d) two
Accutech Gobi laptops to talk to it since they have an oddball
>> I don't think it's the connector, but it's junk if it isn't anyway, so I
>> might
>> see. These things screw in place and the fit was tight getting it out so it
>> would boot again, so I don't think it wiggled. Still, would be nice to know a
>> source for spares because it seems like others
>> Well, this is the second Tadpole laptop RAM module I've had go bad on me (one
>> in my PA-RISC PrecisionBook and now one in my SPARC UltraBook IIi). These are
>> the maroon-red 256MB or 512MB screw-in modules marked "Huxley Only" using a
>> custom friction fit connector, not regular
Well, this is the second Tadpole laptop RAM module I've had go bad on me (one
in my PA-RISC PrecisionBook and now one in my SPARC UltraBook IIi). These are
the maroon-red 256MB or 512MB screw-in modules marked "Huxley Only" using a
custom friction fit connector, not regular SO-DIMMs. I can't find
>> I think (I might have mentioned it at the thread start) it was part of a
>> plan for a school network. Tandy offered a similar setup for schools
>> for the Model 1/3/4 systems, where the "host" could send programs, and
>> the clients would load from the common host system.
> IIRC there was the
>> That sounds like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would
>> contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root
>> \RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop
>> folder.
> Thanks Cameron, that jogs a few old brain cells, and
> I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about 1995, so probably about the time
> I got my first Mac.
> Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork
> data? MacOS 12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-)
> A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including
> > dumb charger. Might be worth a watch, but the tl;dr seems to be that trickle
> ^
> The what ???
Too long; didn't read
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> > Something like the HP LX series or even the portable ZEOS DOS palmtops
would probably be on-topic. The OmniGo 100LX behind me has a Vadem equivalent
of an 80186.
> Vadem made 186 clones? They made dense glue for V40 based Ampro sbc's. Never
> knew they made cpus. Not saying they didn't, but
My PRO 380 runs Venix/PRO. Which is cool, but someone sent me this:
https://www.frijid.net/blog/index.php/2015/06/07/182/
Allegedly this gets BSD 2.9 on, at least, the PRO 350. I'm particularly
interested because it supports networking. Anyone tried this on their PRO? Or
better still, an actual
> I agree that we should probably use the intent of a specific era.
>
> I believe that the world certainly dropped out of my personal definition of
> 'Classic' when the 386 came in.
>
> I have an interest in things up to and including 80186, and they certainly
> are not run of the mill.
Any Apple alumni (Al?) with documentation on AWACS registers? I'm trying to
figure out why the BeOS AWACS sound driver works on some Power Mac 6500s and
TAMs but not others (but works fine on 6400s and everything previously).
Yes, I'm aware that Be considered the 6500 "Unsupported but Compatible"
> AI, not so clear. In my view, AI is a catch-all term for "software whose
> properties are unknown and probably unknowable".
Someone recently on Hacker News talked about the possibility of neural net
models to translate code for other architectures. The best response to this
idea described it
>>> I am looking for a device that sits transparently in an RS-232 serial line
>>> and upon seeing a particular code go over the serial line ((or sequence of
>>> codes) will actual a relay (or a transistor). Something with two DB25s or
>>> DE9s and is configurable to what code will trigger the
Cracked open my General Magic DataRover 840 to find out what specific MIPS
R3000 variant is in it. However, the only chips that are large enough to be
CPUs are *two* with Bowser logos marked (C)GMI JAPAN GLACIER-01 F840276. The
other chips of notable size are easily identified as RAM, a
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
> I had a problem like this on a VT52, and the problem turned out to be one the
> power supplies (the -12v one) had died. Wired in a 7812 (or whatever it is for
> - voltage) and the monitor came back.
>
> May want to look inside and see if a supply rail is dead.
A good suggestion. This morning
Got the Peanuts out today for a shakedown. They work well, or at least they did
until about 5 minutes into playing Kings Quest when the h-sync on the monitor
suddenly went out. Colours show and match what should be on screen but the
horizontal display is scrambled. It does it on both Peanuts, so I
> Is there any kind of brightness control? Does it work at all when the screen
> goes white?
There are brightness and contrast controls, but they don't seem to do anything
even when the screen is working properly. (Note that this could simply be an
issue with the physical controls themselves
> This usually means the timer of the pulse width modulation circuit is
> changing.
> If it’s an RC type circuit, probably the resistor is heating up and changing
> value. If it’s a ic that controls the PWM then check out the IC and the
> components that connect to the control pin.
That's an
I've been trying to do a little work on the RDI BriteLite IPX I have here, but
when it runs more than a few minutes the LCD just blanks out white. The machine
seems to still respond to commands, so it seems like it's something with the
display hardware. Even powered off and back on it won't go
> TenFourFox is essentially a current web-browser.
It's kind of you to say that, but at its core it's still just a hopped-up
Firefox 45. Many things work, many things work but look funny, and an
increasing proportion of things don't work at all. I myself just use it for
basic tasks now that I'm
> I suppose it's the computer as well but I was surprised by how relatively
> slow they are, considering that they're 'solid state'.
It's largely the fact that bubble memory is inherently serial. You have to
cycle through all the bits in a line until you get to the right location.
--
> How "stable" is bubble memory, over decades?
>
> There is a Sharp PC-5000 that may be available, I believe from 1983-1985
> era, which is said to have bubble memory. But the owner can't find a power
> cable, to verify if anything still works.
>
> I have older systems with ICs that are still
> I always thought the i960 was an upgrade to the i860 (sort of like i386 to
> i486 upgrade). However, based on the info on wiki it seems as if the i960
> actually came first and although a RISC chip it was in no way in the same
> league as the i860. Anyone can clarify or verify this?
I'm not
> I think there was a unix/unix-like OS for them, but I imagine context
> switching
> was slow...
There were a couple *nix workstations based on it. The Oki 7300 series comes to
mind. I think someone exhibited at that VCF pre-COVID.
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>> Trying to identify two cables I ended up with, one to DE-9 and one to Mac
>> 8-pin
>> mini-DIN. The other end on both is a male 9-pin mini-DIN. These clearly look
>> like serial cables, but to what? A cursory Google didn't come up with
>> anything
>> obvious. They don't fit the Mac GeoPort or
Trying to identify two cables I ended up with, one to DE-9 and one to Mac 8-pin
mini-DIN. The other end on both is a male 9-pin mini-DIN. These clearly look
like serial cables, but to what? A cursory Google didn't come up with anything
obvious. They don't fit the Mac GeoPort or Sun SPARC serial
There used to be a cross-compiling gcc for MIPS specifically for the VR4121 in
the Agenda VR3 PDA, but it doesn't seem to be on any of the remaining sites.
Anyone out there got it or, he asked hopefully, the entire SDK? Binaries OK,
source better.
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>> Dziękuję za twoją wiadomość. Przepraszam, jestem na wczasach i odpowiem
>> później.
>
> For those not conversant in Polish, he said he's on vacation/holiday and
> will answer later.
See, this is why watching Borat is educational: I actually knew what the first
word meant. And I also knew why
> The new hosting is provided by the Chicago Classic Computing group.
>
> Many thanks to Jay West for hosting the lists for 20 years!
Thanks, Jay, CCC and Dennis!
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> Gmail has ceased to provide classic authorization for smtp, pop3 or IMAP
> access; they want users to employ their new authorization mechanisms. So,
> which email service do you guys recommend? I'd like to be able to access it
> in the old classic way, from different clients. Ideally it would
These things must be cursed by G-d. I've landed three. Two had bad lower boards
(the ones with the bubble memory and the main 9980 MCU) already. The third had
a bad print mechanism. I replaced the printer mechanism, but the printhead on
that was bad, so I powered it down and replaced the print
> but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC
Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC" which was
supposedly OSF/1 based?
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> Now with electronics records (EMRs) we just get legible but junk notes - copy
> and paste for a week straight
Yeah, I consider that lazy. I always rewrite my notes, even if I saw them
myself the last time. It forces me to check the history and make sure nothing's
changed (and that I didn't
> Cameron, do they teach indecipherable handwriting in med school? Seems to be
> universal!
It's probably the hand cramping after writing clinic notes all day.
Unexpectedly, electronic medical records have made my handwriting worse, not
better.
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> I still cross my zeds and sevens. And I propose that more people should do s
> as handwriting continues to deteriorate into un-favomable scribble!
So do I, but as a physician, my handwriting is already indecipherable.
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>>> I still have 10 Mb Ethernet at home (on my Pro, and while it's not in use I
>>> have a few 10Base2 bits).
>> Please expand "my Pro". There's not much to go on.
>> #LivingRetroVicariouslyThoughOthers
> DEC Professional 380 (and a caseless 350) -- PDP-11s with a screwball bus and
> their own
>> I find myself interested in (at least) the following and would like to
>> find others with similar (dis)interests to chat about things.
>>
>> - 10Base5 / 10Base2 / 10BaseT
>> - ISDN
>> - DSL / ADSL / SDSL / HDSL
>> - T1 / E1
>> - ATM
>> - Frame Relay
>> - ARCnet
>> - PSTN / PBX / PABX
>
> I don't have a 10Base2 switch,
Were there ever actual true 10b2 switches? I've only ever seen them as hubs,
and I haven't seen a 10bT switch that had a 10b2 port (all the 10bT devices I
have with 10b2 ports are hubs).
I just have one 10b2 system now, the VAXstation 3100 M76 (previously the HP
>>> 301 24 CONNECTED
>>> DIALCOM NETWORK SYSTEM 10
>>>
>> Please do scan these! It is hard as hell getting info on The Source
>> and also on Dialcom!
>
> Yes, I definitely plan to transcribe them. There is potentially some
> copyrighted material here but I think I can just excerpt that and still
>> 301 24 CONNECTED
>> DIALCOM NETWORK SYSTEM 10
>>
> Please do scan these! It is hard as hell getting info on The Source
> and also on Dialcom!
Yes, I definitely plan to transcribe them. There is potentially some
copyrighted material here but I think I can just excerpt that and still include
all
> I understand many Bubble memoryTi's were used by press. Does anyone have
> adverts or articles on this? Need some backup material for our tools of the
> journalist section weave one of the units to put in the display
I'm not sure if the prior owner was a writer or just an interested
I found my old Model 745 in storage and other than needing a print head clean
and adjusting the printer contrast, it works splendidly. It has the manual and
I've got some plugs to build it an RS-232 connector when I find some more round
tuits.
This whetted my appetite for other 700s, including
> I suspect none of this applies to the VIC-20 - the power switch just
> disconnects the 120VAC from the wall in the same way that pulling the wall
> plug out of its socket (or flipping the switch on a power-strip) would do -
> but I don’t know this at all. Is that the case?
Yes, it's just
>> There's several advantages to doing it that way, including balancing wear on
>> a disk (especially today, with SSDs), as a dedicated swap partition could put
>> undue wear on certain areas of disk.
>
> I thought avoiding this very problem was the purpose of the wear leveling
> functions in SSD
>>> I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of
>>> these...
>>> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/
>>
>> I just love that table
>
> Although the ad says "1.44 megabytes", it is a 720K.
> The write enable notch is not openable to write protect it,
Looking for some tools (guide_reader, others) that were apparently only on
unix.hensa.ac.uk's FTP. This hostname still exists, but directs to University
of Kent's mirror service, and there is no trace of the old archive. Anybody
happen to have saved any pieces of it?
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Well, DSL Extreme is getting out of the T1 business, leaving me high and dry
(they've really gone to hell since GTT bought them out) since they don't offer
a static IP option on any of their lines anymore. I'll be working around that
problem for the next couple months while we move ...
Anyway, I
> > For my kids and their friends I used to set up several (up to like 5)
> > bare motherboards first with lantastic 2MB cards and then NE2000 10mB
> > compatible cards and play Doom over IPX back in the 90's.
>
> Yes. Thank you. IPX. That was the network layer.
Mac Doom even plays over
> > https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-server.html
> > http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/esb/
>
> "Were you a Shiner designer? "
>
> That would be Dennis Yarak. Dennis went to portables from the server group
> and was project lead on the G4 powerbooks.
Is he around
Finally took some pictures of the (sadly non-working) Apple Network Server
prototype I landed and also got around to analysing the hard disk it came
with. Spoiler alert: this Shiner HE was at Netscape doing "real work" for
several years at least.
> > > "I've been using vi for about two years, mostly because I can't
> > > figure out how to exit it."
> >
> > :q
> >
> > you're welcome
>
> Or having to power cycle the machine to get out of EMACS.
I think people missed the part where I said I typed the reply (and, for that
matter, this
> 'course, then there are the MAJOR religious battles. Such as VI VS EMACS.
"I've been using vi for about two years, mostly because I can't figure out
how to exit it."
(written in vi)
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> I've written a Venix/86 userland emulator. It uses FreeBSD's vm86 to run
> binaries natively and intercepts traps for things like system calls. I
> finally have it to the point where it can run the compiler via cc (which
> forks and execs c0, copt, cpp, as, ld, etc). My plans to try to recreate
Bitsavers has 6.3 (thank you Al) but I'm trying to push my luck and find
8.1 for this XP421CH Xterm. Anyone know of where it can be found?
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> I wonder what it would take to go the other way. I have plenty of C-64's
> and no 8-bit Atari computers. Maybe I'll finally get one at the next PRGE.
A lot more, I should think. This is just Commodore BASIC v2.0, which has
just about zero special hardware support and was ported almost
A number of the prior systems were picked up or other arrangements made, and
a couple more pulled from storage to make room. As before, these are FREE
TO A GOOD HOME but you have to come PICK UP from various locations in the
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA region. Contact me privately if interested.
The PDP-11, VT100, Flyer/Video Toaster and some of the Macs have found homes,
but there are still some items left and a couple more I added. These will be
going to the recycler soon unless they are spoken for (all free to good
homes). I may be adding some others, too. As before items are at
> > "Houston Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't call this a "museum". The
> > condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace.
>
> Isn't this the place in Texas that flooded last year?
Houston and floods ...
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> > There is also a big Kennedy disk next to it but I don't know if they
> > originally went together.
>
> Just to satisfy my curiosity, is that SMD or something else?
I *think* so but I'm not an expert on these things by any means. This was
an attempt to gain expertise. Oh well.
> re. Acorn
I'm now four reservations deep on the DEC stuff, so I think we can consider
that to have a home, and a couple for the S-100 and CoCo, and the STacy is
going to someone who might be able to restore it. However, the other systems
are still available! List reposted below minus reserved items.
Also,
Well, the pandemic turns everything upside down and we're looking at new
employment, a new place and probably having to slash a few things. First on
the chopping block is to consolidate and downsize storage.
These systems and peripherals are all free to a good home; all you have to
do is pick
> Back in the mid-90s, there was an outfit in Britain which made some
> laptops using Alpha processors.
That was the Tadpole ALPHAbook. Not many of those got to the outside world.
Been watching for one for over a decade. For a period of time it was the
fastest laptop available and it was
> So, some months ago, I was in an electronics surplus store and picked
> up what was obviously an X terminal - tiny metal slab with a VGA
> connector, serial & parallel, AT keyboard, and RJ45 "communication"
> port. [...]
> To throw an extra mysterious wrinkle into this, when I popped open the
>
> RLX Technologies pioneered the blade server concept between 1999 and 2005
> (when they got acquired by HP). I have two of their early RLX 24 blade
> enclosures, one fully populated with 24 transmeta-based processor blades,
> and the other with 19 blades.
Wait. Transmeta?? Which chip,
> > That's right, for disks detected as RX01 (which are of course fully FM, 128
> > bytes per sector).__ Sector data that is actually 0xDEADBEEF will
> > show up in the .dmk as 0xDDEEAADDBBFF.
>
> I've wondered why .dmk did that.
Redunredundancydancy?
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I think we have some old Mac programmers here.
I've dusted off some code that allegedly compiles with CodeWarrior Pro 2, and
it needs CWGUSI, so I installed 1.8.0 (which was on the CW Pro2 Tools CD).
A bit of hacking and everything compiles, but it won't link; it's missing
a symbol _Stdout that
I know it exists, or existed, as there are references all over to it from
the skeletal remains of various BeWare mirrors. However, the package itself
has disappeared. The Intel version is marginally easier to find but if anyone
knows where the *PowerPC* one is (I'll take R3 or R4) please advise.
> The Venix/Pro that's in the archives works on all Pros (1.0) but 2.0
> requires the 380.
I should have said what it was running. It is indeed 2.0.
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> > > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything
> > > to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380.
[...]
> > Venix runs fine on my 380. In fact, it's the only OS installed on it. It has
> > the stock hard disk, though I'd like to convert to
> > > 2. Venix: panic at boot, "Bad access number". That doesn't mean anything
> > > to me. I wonder if the issue is that Venix doesn't support the 380.
> >
> > The Venix image is special. Venix doesn't support more than 16 sectors
> > per track. You may need to put it on a disk whose geometry
> > CC:Mail used to have "Versions" in the 80's if I recall. "Releases"
> > came when Lotus bought them.
>
> Ok, so 1,2,3 happened quickly?
At least from Lotus' point of view ...
(scnr)
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> > I've successfully used a DREM-2 (https://www.drem.info/) with my Pro 380
> > for both floppy and hard disk emulation.
>
> Cool! I just bought one of the G thingies ($30 on Amazon), will try
> loading up the modified firmware and see if it works. Just easier than
> making an endless pile of
> There was a little known 68K machine. It was the Canon Cat.
I love the form factor of my Cat. Wish it was easier to "do things" with it
though.
> If you should ever get one, don't use the disk drive until you talk to me.
Don't leave us in suspense! However, mine seems to be fine.
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