On 09/07/2017 07:18 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> Ah, well, I can see why a 7 track tape won't read well on a 9-track drive!
I was a bit puzzled at why a tapemark would read as 135 (hex). Sigh--at
least the parity is correct.
--Chuck
On 09/07/2017 02:24 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 09/07/2017 09:32 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
The problem you're fighting is things are just a little marginal at 800 ?
As I just mentioned to Al in an offlist email, it turns out that the
stack of tapes labeled "800 NRZ 9 track" are,
On 09/07/2017 09:32 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> The problem you're fighting is things are just a little marginal at 800 ?
As I just mentioned to Al in an offlist email, it turns out that the
stack of tapes labeled "800 NRZ 9 track" are, in fact, 7 track.
Kyread doesn't lie. Argh.
Time to
If any VCF Midwest attendees have some spare 4116 dynamic RAM, I could
use a couple. Anything 200ns or faster should work. Please reply
off-list. Thanks!
Mike Loewen mloe...@cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/
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On 09/06/2017 10:09 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Here's a thought--can skew be adjusted by writing,a block
of data in a forward direction, then reading it in reverse?
Nope, it will always show perfect skew. What you COULD do,
is take the tape off the reel and turn it around. THEN, any
sk
On 9/6/17 9:20 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> If you could spare it for a week or so, I'd be grateful. On the other
> hand, my MCU setup for the drive works great--it reads a tape and
> stashes the data as a .TAP file on an SD card.
The problem you're fighting is things are just a little m
On 7 September 2017 at 04:07, Sam O'nella via cctalk
wrote:
> I don't know if it was my newb brain/false memory but i thought I saw someone
> post a ti-99/2 prototype before
It was a thing:
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=267
Never made it onto retail sale, though.
--
Lia
On 6 September 2017 at 20:46, Tapley, Mark wrote:
> On Sep 6, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> It shows what the machine could have been, if TI hadn't crippled it
>> for fear of competing with its higher-end models.
>
> I have heard similar arguments repeatedly, in
