On 07/13/2018 07:57 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 07/13/2018 04:13 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1683
>
> Thank you.
>
>> In the as-provided form, it's just a bunch of sector-by-sector data
>> written to a predefined set of
On 07/13/2018 01:04 PM, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
Jon:
The 23FD used on most S/370 mainframes had a two solenoid and swash plate
actuator, pulse the in solenoid to go in and the out solenoid to go out.
IBM SJ in those days was very cost conscious and preferred mechanical parts
over
> On Jul 13, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>>
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>> On 07/13/2018 02:32 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>>> Gentlepeople,
>>>
>>> Once in a while people ask about
On 07/13/2018 04:13 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1683
Thank you.
In the as-provided form, it's just a bunch of sector-by-sector data
written to a predefined set of addresses on the flash drive. No file
system at all.
Reading about the
On 07/13/2018 07:57 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 07/13/2018 04:13 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1683
>
> Thank you.
Please ignore my earlier non-reply--I hit the wrong button.
Actually, given that allocation is in fixed units, it
Great news, Paul!
I'll try and give this a go this weekend.
Aaron
Paul Koning via cctalk writes:
> Gentlepeople,
>
> Once in a while people ask about GCC. It has long had pdp11 support,
> but it hasn't received much attention. Recently I've done some
> cleanup on it, and some more is in the
hi
is there any chance someone has a working gcc-ada compiler? for
- Linux/MIPS (big endian, MIPS3, MIPS4 or MIPS32)
- Linux/HPPA2
I have successfully compiled gcc-ada for SGI_IRIX (MIPS4/BE)
but ... every attempt to create a cross-compiler(1) fails
on HPPA I have never seen an Ada compiler
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
> Anyone know where the Step/Direction version of the FDD interface
> originated.
>
> So far as near as I can tell the earliest FDDs (IBM 23FD Minnow and Memorex
> 650/651) used Step In/Step Out. The IBM 33FD Igar used direct
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 03:05:56PM -0400, Santo Nucifora wrote:
> Hi All,
Santo was first by about 12 minutes according to my mail logs.
> Diane was gracious enough to accept my request for the disks and
> documentation. I will certainly make images of the disks if they are
> readable and will
On 07/12/2018 09:05 PM, David C. Jenner via cctech wrote:
> Would Chuck's temperature and Al's oven be appropriate for old magtapes,
> too?
My "cooker" is home-built and heavily insulated. It has a 75W
incandescent for heat and a low-speed fan for circulation. I use a PID
controller to keep the
Man, these things are annoying.
All of the bands are bad, and they leave residue on the spools.
There are no EOT BOT holes on the HP tape, and the drive locks
the cartridge until you 'unload' it, which spins to the EOT soft
region. Well, guess what, they leave the tape in a position where
the
Gentlepeople,
Once in a while people ask about GCC. It has long had pdp11 support, but it
hasn't received much attention. Recently I've done some cleanup on it, and
some more is in the pipeline.
One notable new feature is that it can now produce proper DEC Macro-11 syntax
output. It has
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> Man, these things are annoying.
>
> All of the bands are bad, and they leave residue on the spools.
> There are no EOT BOT holes on the HP tape, and the drive locks
I assume you mean the HP9144 and HP9145 drives/tapes. The
HP9142
Hello all - I have created a mailing list for VCF Midwest news and
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to take a moment to drop an
Jon:
The 23FD used on most S/370 mainframes had a two solenoid and swash plate
actuator, pulse the in solenoid to go in and the out solenoid to go out.
IBM SJ in those days was very cost conscious and preferred mechanical parts
over electronic, hence this mechanism instead of the stepper
Correct, I meant the 16 or 32 track drives.
There was a document floating around called 'hcdvsqic.txt' that I had recently
uploaded to
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/tape/9144
I just found a more detailed document written in Jun, 1989 on the subject that
I'm about to upload
that goes into more
On 7/13/18 11:29 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> 7942 is completely incompatible with the 44 and 45
sigh.. 9142
> How close would the PIC32 gcc compiler/toolchain be? The PIC32 is a
> MIPS-based MCU.
inside PIC32 there is a MIPS32-R2 core, but the toolchain is not OS-profiled
it's metal bare (without an OS, and in this case Linux requires a lot
of considerations)
besides, the C compiler and libraries (and
On 07/13/2018 02:12 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 floppy drive
> emulator that reads ""images from a USB flash drive?
>
> Good?
> Bad?
> Indifferent?
> Run for the hills?
Yup, got a few of them here. Depends on your needs. If
On 07/13/2018 02:50 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> I was wondering what images looked like on the USB flash drive. I found
> a couple of pages that talk about the SFR1M44-U100 using it's own
> storage format (that probably doesn't even qualify as a file system).
> I've also found tools and
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 6:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/13/2018 02:32 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> > Gentlepeople,
> >
> > Once in a while people ask about GCC. It has long had pdp11 support,
> but it hasn't received much attention.
Al,
thank you putting so much effort into reading these old Tapes. Really
appreciate it.
Sven
On 07/13/2018 06:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Man, these things are annoying.
>
> All of the bands are bad, and they leave residue on the spools.
> There are no EOT BOT holes on the HP
Does anyone have any experience with the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 floppy drive
emulator that reads ""images from a USB flash drive?
Good?
Bad?
Indifferent?
Run for the hills?
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 07/13/2018 03:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Yup, got a few of them here. Depends on your needs. If what you need
is something that supports bog-standard 2x18x512 "1.44M" floppy images,
it's pretty decent right out of the box.
Cool!
It uses an STM32F105 MCU and some stuff to
On 07/13/2018 01:19 PM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote:
> hi
> is there any chance someone has a working gcc-ada compiler? for
> - Linux/MIPS (big endian, MIPS3, MIPS4 or MIPS32)
> - Linux/HPPA2
>
> I have successfully compiled gcc-ada for SGI_IRIX (MIPS4/BE)
> but ... every attempt to create a
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On the other hand, if you want to use this with more general floppy
> images, you can install the HxC firmware which supports lots of formats.
>
Or FlashFloppy firmware: https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy
HTH
--
Regards,
On 07/13/2018 02:32 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> Gentlepeople,
>
> Once in a while people ask about GCC. It has long had pdp11 support, but it
> hasn't received much attention. Recently I've done some cleanup on it, and
> some more is in the pipeline.
>
> One notable new feature is
besides
we are experimenting problems supporting Ada's exceptions on Irix with
gcc v4.7.1
http://www.downthebunker.xyz/wonderland/reloaded/bazaar/viewtopic.php?f=33=110=329=8b037f041d4fe8c74528008402b57762#p329
it's not clear if the problem is related to gcc, rather than to binutils
here some
Are the firmware eproms for the DECstation archived anywhere?
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