Re: Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 04/29/2019 02:23 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 4/29/19 9:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: Back in 1984 I had cloned a Logical Microcomputer Co. Genix system based on the Nat. Semi. 16032 chip set. I had a dd dump of the distribution on floppies, but that was unreadable. I just

Re: Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread alan--- via cctalk
While this isn't specific to 16032, it is somewhat related. A year and a half ago, someone found the Gerber files for Scolaro's PC532 Baby AT motherboard. I back-annotated them into Eagle (I don't use KiCad) where they could be edited. The ground fill from the Gerbers was replaced with

Re: Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/29/19 9:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Back in 1984 I had cloned a Logical Microcomputer Co. Genix system based on > the Nat. Semi. 16032 chip set.  I had a dd > dump of the distribution on floppies, but that was unreadable. > I just found a binder with about an inch of fanfold

Re: Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 4/29/19 10:07 AM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: > PS - If anybody's got ns32k hardware, I'm interested... ;) Dig into some old laser printers. I had a Panasonic that used the 32016 with graphics enhancements. But then, I suspect that you're more interested in computers than printers...

Re: Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 04/29/2019 12:07 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: PS - If anybody's got ns32k hardware, I'm interested... ;) I have a complete, wire-wrapped clone of the Logical Microcomputer Co. 16032 system, except for memory and the MFM disk. So, that's the CPU on Multibus-I, a Taisho disk

Re: Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
On 04/29/2019 09:30, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: I just found a binder with about an inch of fanfold printouts of all the device drivers, low-level system routines, boot loaders, etc in c source format. So, it might be tricky to scan and OCR it without training the OCR. Not sure anybody

Nat Semi 16032 info discovered

2019-04-29 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
Back in 1984 I had cloned a Logical Microcomputer Co. Genix system based on the Nat. Semi. 16032 chip set. I had a dd dump of the distribution on floppies, but that was unreadable. I just found a binder with about an inch of fanfold printouts of all the device drivers, low-level system