[cctalk] HP 150 software
Hi, I found a bunch of original HP 150 software on 3.5" floppies ... any HP 150 collectors here?Free, pickup, Cupertino. Includes the following. About 1/2 are original disks. The most unusual are probably the compilers from Prospero, and the IMAGE-like database (Mirage?) from Datasoft International (the developer was likely Michel Kohon, from France, and a member of the HP 3000 community). Datacom: DSN/Link HP PCLink Kermit PC2622 Reflection 1 Plus Misc / Unknown: Ally/150 Application Master Extended I/O Application Cardfile (full app) Cardfile demo Computer tutor 150 Edit/150 from KSD systems Limited Infocom sampler Interex CSL/100 volume 56 Interex CSL150 (contributed library) Mentor version 1.E.1 from KSD systems Limited System demo Thinkjet demo Visicalc Games: Tick Tock, Radar, Othello, others Type attack, Temple of Apshai, Ricochet Winning Deal Zork Programming... C (unknown...just says "C" on label) Lattice C MASM Modula 2 MVP Forth (on misc games floppy) Pro Fortran from Prospero Pro For 1 (possibly same as above) Pro Pascal from Prospero Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0 ISV Development (from HP) ISV revision A.1.2 (Independent Software Vendor toolkit from HP?) Programmers Toolkit (HP) Programmers tools: debug, sort, find, edlin, ece2bin, ...more... (HP) Database: ??? Mirager Version ii 2.A.1 Datasoft International Mirage Library Mirage I //
[cctalk] Re: You have Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system to trade for my IBM 5100 Portable PC?
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote: The unit I have is IBM. There was no floppy drive unit from IBM for the IBM 5100. Or do you have a model number? It only did single sided diskettes, low density. It's the only device which The IBM 5114 handles single and double sided diskettes, as well as FM and MFM, so up to over 1 MB per floppy. I've ever had which could write deleted sectors. The formatting on the diskette is very similar to the tape formatting with two EOT records followed by the remainder of track 0 padded out with deleted sectors. ?? Now I'm curious. What floppy drive system exactly are you talking about? Christian
[cctalk] Re: You have Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system to trade for my IBM 5100 Portable PC?
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote: the 5100 has an external connector. The floppy drive is a floor unit about Yes, three Sub-D connectors. Two for the signals, one for power. the size of three AT units upright, with two single density floppies in it. And that floppy drive (if you are thinking of the IBM 5114) does *not* work on the 5100. The 5100 simply has not the "driver" for it. Is it possible that you are thinking of the IBM 5110 ? And there was another connector on the back of the unit to daisy chain the printer. This is the 5100 desktop unit. You could only attach up to three IBM 5106 external tape drives and one 5103 printer at the end of the chain. There wasn't anything else AFAIK. I've got one of the units with the integrated 8" floppies as well. That is the IBM 5120 aka IBM 5110 model 3. Christian
[cctalk] Re: You have Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system to trade for my IBM 5100 Portable PC?
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Tom Stepleton wrote: Or at least there as something that was sold in this way. Here is its brochure: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sykes/brochures/Sykes_Comm-Stor_5100_Brochure.pdf Interesting! (What is an IMF?) IMF = internal machine fix The 5100/5110 had a mechanism to load resident binary routines into memory in order to patch ROS (=ROM) routines or to add a driver (e.g. the Plot feature). Basically, you load a program that then relocates the resident part to the end of free memory, patches some entry points in RWS (=RAM) and adjusts the end-of-memory value. Christian
[cctalk] Re: VAXstation 100 ROM image
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> My idea is to make a VS100 emulator and have it run the firmware >> uploaded by early X versions. > > What kind of emulator are you planing? A completely new thing? Or do > you want to use SIMH as a basis? It's just a vague idea. It's much too early to say I have any kind of plan in place. I might use SIMH, or something like Musashi, or write my own in adjunction to my VT52 and VT100 simulators. I suppose the Unibus interface to a VAX host would favour use of SIMH, in which case the VS100 would look like a SIMH device with a 68000 inside.
[cctalk] Re: VAXstation 100 ROM image
On Tue, 2022-09-06 05:02:08 +, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote: > Matt Burke wrote: > > I dumped the ROMs from my VAXstation 100 some time ago (along with many > > other DEC devices): > > > > http://www.9track.net/roms/ > Thank you very much! My idea is to make a VS100 emulator and have it > run the firmware uploaded by early X versions. But I have some other > things going on now, so it will have to wait. I'd be grateful for any > help; I may well get in touch in the future. What kind of emulator are you planing? A completely new thing? Or do you want to use SIMH as a basis? MfG, JBG --
