Apple II DOS User's manual

2020-01-08 Thread Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
All, next thing in my disposal pile. 3-ring binder, containing a repro copy of the subject line and a 5.25” floppy labelled “Apple II DOS 3.3 System Master For Apple II, II+, and IIe”. computer is given away a while back, should have sent this with it. I bought it in 2006 and won’t use it. I

Commodore PET interfacing description.

2020-01-08 Thread Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
All, Another thing that surfaced recently on my pile is a manila envelope containing a big photocopied stack of papers, with a title page saying: — Interfacing the Commodore PET by Bill Durham, David Paul, and jim Wilman University of Arkansas. — It’s got about 45 pages of text, interspersed

Motorola app notes (Al Kossow)

2020-01-08 Thread Stanley Ruppert via cctalk
Al, I have the original Motorola paper version of AN1123. I’m happily to scan it for you. I have a pretty complete set from an139 into the 1100s if there are others you need. Regards, Stan Ruppert

RL02 head gain adjustment: Limits?

2020-01-08 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
So in the continuing quest of fixing my second RL02 I replaced the heads and found the drive was slow and would generate about 80 block errors on a pack where my reference RL02 drive would never generate more than 10. After doing a positional radial check (fine) and a head alignment check

Re: KCC and parenthesis in preprocessor lines

2020-01-08 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:25 PM David Griffith via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting Frotz 2.50 ported to TOPS20. Version 2.32 > with dumb interface compiles fine under KCC. With 2.50, there are several > preprocessor lines that include parentheses. For

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:57 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > And then you have DEC. I have often heard DSSI described as > SCSI done right That's reportedly what DEC thought of it, but in practice it was SCSI done differently so as to be incompatible. The only

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:44 PM jim stephens via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > The electronics of the SCSI interface were designed initially by the > precursor to Adaptec. At the time that the SCSI committee was formed, > there was work by a number of companies. Among them were HP,

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/8/20 6:44 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > > On 1/8/2020 9:54 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: >> With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list. >> I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I >> don't know enough electronics to judge. >>

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 1/8/2020 9:54 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list. I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I don't know enough electronics to judge. I thought others here might. I have trimmed the mail a little

Re: SWTPC 6800 and Percom Floppy Controller

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Douglas via cctalk
Greg, Thanks for the response. The article you reference is also the one bit of documentation I was able to find. It's been a big help. I have been in contact with Bob and recently picked up one of his RAM/EPROM boards to use while I get the system restored. Mike On Wednesday, January

Re: SWTPC 6800 and Percom Floppy Controller

2020-01-08 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
Mike - Cer-Comp 5566 Ricochet Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89110 (702) 452-0632 William E. Vergona wrote firmware on those two (2), 2708 ROMs. He later (1980s) worked with Tandy (Coco-3) Color Computer products. == ‘68 Journal, May 1980 (Back to Future, 40 years later) MiniDisk+ DOS , Pages 11 - 13

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Richard Pope via cctalk
Al, Yep!! GOD Bless and Thanks, rich! On 1/8/2020 1:15 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 1/8/20 10:58 AM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: The A3000 did have a problem with the hardware. If you upgraded the SCSI controller chip it fixed the A3000 problem. I guessed it was a WD

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 08/01/2020 18:56, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: I recall the Christmas when our accountant insisted on an inventory of the electronics repair workshop.  We kept our small components in a bank of drawers some 1.5m (around 5 feet) wide by about 1m (3 feet or so) high.  Each drawer is just

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/8/20 10:58 AM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: > The A3000 did have > a problem with the hardware. If you upgraded the SCSI controller chip it > fixed the A3000 problem. I guessed it was a WD http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=73936 yup.. Amigas weren't the only systems that had

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Pete Turnbull via cctalk
On 08/01/2020 18:06, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: Allowing accountants to do electrical engineering makes just as much sense as allowing sociologists to do brain surgery. Off topic, but allowing accountants to do accountancy isn't always much better. I recall the Christmas when our

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Richard Pope via cctalk
Hello all, I used Amigas for several decades and I really liked SCSI. The problems with the Amiga and SCSI were related to firmware and not the hardware. It was important to use the latest SCSI Roms on the 2091 and the 590. The A3000 did have a problem with the hardware. If you upgraded

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:55 AM Liam Proven via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list. > I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I > don't know enough electronics to judge. > > And all that

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 1/8/20 10:32 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 10:17:29AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> Before I go delving into my pile of SCSI X3T10 documentation and interface >> chip datasheets, exactly *which* flavor of SCSI are we talking about here? > > Given the

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 10:17:29AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Before I go delving into my pile of SCSI X3T10 documentation and interface > chip datasheets, exactly *which* flavor of SCSI are we talking about here? Given the reference to the Amiga, almost certainly SCSI-1, i.e. 8 bit

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Before I go delving into my pile of SCSI X3T10 documentation and interface chip datasheets, exactly *which* flavor of SCSI are we talking about here? --Chuck

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 8, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > > With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list. > I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I > don't know enough electronics to judge. > > I thought others here might. > > I

Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

2020-01-08 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
With his express permission, I'm forwarding a mail from a public list. I am interested in Gene's comments about the design of SCSI, but I don't know enough electronics to judge. I thought others here might. I have trimmed the mail a little to the relevant parts. -- Liam Proven - Profile:

RE: SWTPC 6800 and Percom Floppy Controller

2020-01-08 Thread William Sudbrink via cctalk
You might try asking on the Flex Users "fufu" list. I have a working MiniDOS PlusX LFD-400 setup. I would be happy to trade dumps if you are interested. Bill S. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Douglas via cctalk Sent: Tuesday,

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-08 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 02:00, Stefan Skoglund wrote: > > Well in some way or another i got a copy with the book to Sweden. > > Ran it from 1999 to 2002 or so (got a SGI challenge S as NetBSD machine > and a pc as a linux machine at that time in 2002 or so.) > > Host was a 6100 with the Apple tilt