On Sun, 1 Jan 2023, BogDan Vatra wrote:
Earlier this December I got an Altos 386 series 1000 with lots of
documentation and some installation floppy disks and one tape. I must say
that it's an amazing machine!
I'd like to reinstall the os but I have two problems:
I have an Altos 486 System 1000
On Sat, 31 Dec 2022, ben wrote:
How do you print old files in ASCII 63 to modern devices, so you keep the ?
and ? 's
and not printing _ and ^ ?
I'm scratching my head... you want to keep the question marks?
But I guess you mean the back arrow and the up arrow.
Christian
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, gordon+cct...@drogon.net wrote:
dumb charger. Might be worth a watch, but the tl;dr seems to be that trickle
^
The what ???
Christian
On Sun, 27 Nov 2022, Chuck Guzis wrote:
If anyone cares, I've been working on a Pertec tape controller design.
The initial version worked remarkably well with only a few bodge wires.
I'm assembling the respin of the design and do not anticipate any issues.
I could really use some "Unformatted t
On Mon, 14 Nov 2022, jos wrote:
if anyone wants to go ahead I will gladly share my Kicad project ! Mind you,
the diddlescan is a problem as that requires a CRT yoke with 3 windings
Reminds me of the Cogar C4/ICL 1500 system that has a rotated deflection
also with diddlescan ;-) But I think
On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, Peter Corlett wrote:
Farnell Nederland is quoting me ?1.06 (+21% VAT) for the cheapest brand of
A quick search reveals that a single NE555 costs 0.25 Euros at Reichelt,
*including* VAT. I'm sure they can be had much much cheaper in quantities.
Christian
On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
translating those results to "display character codes." I don't think the
5110 has a clock on its own, so you'd have to carefully time things? (like
doing audio on an original Apple 2 with no RTC module).
Sure it has. The ASync card does not have an oscil
On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
always imagined it would be possible to "bit bang" across these external IO
pins with some PALM-assembly -- the machine should be fast enough to encode
7-bit ASCII at 300 baud across those pins, maybe 1200. I'm not sure if
The PALM and thus the 51[012]0
On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Grant Taylor wrote:
GCR is Group Code Recording, used on the Apple II, Commodore 1541 drive and
Amiga (and others) use a different encoding scheme than the normal FM
No, the Amiga can handle GCR, but never used it. It's plain standard MFM
with different sector layout and ID
On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Fred Cisin wrote:
GCR stands for "group Coded Record"
group coded "recording" ;-)
Christian
On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
Please expand "GCR".
Sure, . . . (GROSSLY OVER-SIMPLIFIED, such as "pulse" instead of flux
transition)
FM is "frequency modulated". Well, it is actually a regular clock pulse,
[...]
MFM is "Modified
On Thu, 3 Nov 2022, Grant Taylor wrote:
Does anyone have a 101 level boot strap guide for someone wanting to get into
creating better-than-dd disk images?
I'm finding myself back in a position where I want to image / preserve
multiple 5¼ & 3½ inch disks. I think all of them are PC compatible
On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Ethan Dicks wrote:
The big benefit for DH11 and DMF32 and 3rd-party DH11 work-alikes
(Emulex CS-21...) is that since under normal workflow, many times more
chars go out than come in so DMA-out saves a lot of overhead when
blasting screens of stuff (like refreshing your page in
On Thu, 27 Oct 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
Hehe, this sounds like a great idea!
Did I send you my Kermit implementation or my Infocom V2 interpreter?
Nope - would love to check them out, any PALM examples. Your annotated
Ok, can you remind me next week perhaps?
disassemble of the Executive RO
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
Christian! I tried contacting you a few months ago. Apologies, I suspect
some intermediate ISP may be blocking gmail? I've seen this happen with
other contacts.
Oh my, yes I have some mail chaos on my system and I guess yours must have
been "lost" some
On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, Steve Lewis wrote:
Wanted to pass along that PALM has been added as a target to the Macro
Assembler AS. This means writing some assembly stuff for the old IBM
5100/5110/5120 systems.
Assembler available here:
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/
Funny, as this is the
On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I recall that the IBM 650 had an upgrade option where core was used for
some of the registers. It was small--maybe 50 words.
The Z22 had a very small area of core memory, called "fast memory"
(Schnellspeicher).
And then we have boards out of an LGP-21 (t
On Sat, 8 Oct 2022, Paul Kimpel wrote:
modify a lot of the software. Timing dependencies aside, G-15 instructions
didn't have addresses -- they had "timing numbers" that effectively told the
hardware how long to wait before reading or writing a word on the drum.
Oh really, that is then similar
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 we
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
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
t IBM buy for 31000.
^
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
Are you sure about that? The 5100 doesn't support floppy drives. And I've
never heard of third-party drives (that would need IMFs, to
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
On 9/3/22 17:38, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and he added
the floppy drives and printer. It was a direct IBM buy for 310
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I've never heard of anyone making 8" Flippy Diskettes.
BASF had the FlexyDisk 2N. They are intented for single-sided drives and
can be flipped. They have two index hole cutouts.
Christian
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022, Fritz Mueller wrote:
+1 for the Digi Portserver for this application. I recently grabbed one
off eBay, because I have a number of vintage terminals here which I
would like to ?crossbar? to a number of vintage computers with serial
terminal support, and also provide both te
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022, Ali wrote:
modern system using an IP:port schema. This works great except I don't get
to play with my shiny, new to me, authentic experience terminal device.
Why not? You attach the terminal to your terminal server, too, and connect
from the terminal to one of the other se
On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, Grant Taylor wrote:
I don't know that I've ever heard / seen the name "Rank" prefixing "Xerox"
before.
Actually I knew them only as Rank Xerox many years ago, when they were
commonly known as office suppliers, e.g. photo copiers and printers.
Christian
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Can we agree that there is such a thing as an "AC current" and there
is such a thing as a "DC current" and the two of them can be added
together?
Ouch... an alternating current current and direct current current ;-)
And you usually add the voltages, not
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Toby Thain wrote:
It does not, due to unidirectionality.
But in general, diodes can be (and are) used as controlled AC switches.
One good example are the head select diodes in disk drives. You apply a
direct voltage and thus "open" the diode. You then have a overlayed
al
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Toby Thain wrote:
I also hate the English/American expression "inverter" for voltage
converters, because really nothing is being inverted in any way.
Generating AC from DC _does_ always involve generation of "inverted" voltages
relative to the input DC (AC has positive and n
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Peter Coghlan wrote:
about it? Maybe it would be more accurate to use terms like steady voltage
and alternating voltage? Alternating doesn't seem like that good a term
In German it's exactly like you suggest it. We say "Gleichspannung" (=
constant/steady voltage) and "Wec
On Tue, 10 May 2022, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Ahead of the 78M09 is another TO220 package marked D45H8 which seems to
be a transistor. Then I am completely lost. I can't find the rectifier
That TO220 part would be the rectifier. It either has two legs (simple
diode) or three (two-wave rectifier
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022, Chris Zach wrote:
Quick question: I have seen references to new rubber bands for the DC600
series of carts, but is there a similar replacement part for TU58 tapes?
Yes, but forget Baumgartens' Plastibands, they are practically
unavailable.
I got some hundred of each size
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote:
You can of course build a PCI FDD interface around the NEC uPD765 or an
equivalent controller, but you can't make it compatible with existing PC
software, because too much PC specifics has been embedded there around the
8237 DMA controller and DMA p
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Barry Hills wrote:
Selling my 026/029 IBM punch card control drum ($150)
Thanks, I had a good lough :-D
Christian
On Fri, 1 Apr 2022, Paul Koning wrote:
On Apr 1, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk
wrote:
Well, it would still work for 1-bit-wide words, so to speak. One
wonders what the application was.
I wonder if the sense wire was used as inhibit during write cycles --
that seems doable. It w
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Chris Elmquist wrote:
More interesting. If the programming algorithms remained the same then I
guess it is just an issue for the programming system-- when it auto-IDs,
it should display (and allow!) 27C256A instead of 27C256.
I guess the next question is whether the progra
On Thu, 17 Mar 2022, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Does anyone have or know whether the schematics for the IBM 5110 or 5100
are available?
No, there are no schematics, only block diagrams. I had created the
schematics for the Async/Serial I/O card years ago (it's a TTL only board)
And the tightly rel
On Tue, 15 Mar 2022, Fred Cisin wrote:
He had a 2.5M attachment of a photograph of the 28 printing it
Since the list doesn't allow attachments, no, there was no photograph on
this list.
Christian
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022, W2HX wrote:
Here is some Baudot Art. Hot off the model 28
Where is "here"?
Christian
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, it was written
Have you tried Misumi? The only problem I had was that you have to be VAT
registered. I had a friend order for me.
Yes, and that is exactly the problem.
Christian
On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, it was written
On Jan 20, 2022, at 00:23, Christian Corti via cctech
wrote: What bands did you use/buy? I ask
because the Baumgartens Plastibands aren't available in the required
size (as if they are not produced any more).
I bought the assorted sizes pack (SF-7000, I thin
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
Just as a follow-up, I retensioned and read both tapes with clear bands
this morning, and they're fine. Since they were parked, there shouldn't
have been anything important there, and it looks like the removed oxide
is staying on the band.
What ban
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, r...@jarratt.me.uk wrote:
If I can't find 10V rated ones, then, generally up to what sort of voltage
rating can I go? Of course, physical size will be a factor, but electrically
can it affect operation of the regulator if the rated voltage is too high?
If you need to ask thi
On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Paul Koning wrote:
Interesting idea. A while ago someone posted a picture of what looks
like a "go/no-go" gauge for DECtape reels. It is marked with the
dimensions of the two sides: 2.504-2.505 inches for the "no-go" end,
2.494-2.495 for the "go" end. So that tells us th
On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Bill Degnan wrote:
a partnership to found or make commercial a health resort called "Bad
Krautzma", but I believe she was way off spelling-wise. It's written in
"Bad Kreuznach" comes to my mind, no idea if this could be the place,
though.
Christian
On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, nico de jong wrote:
You need a COM port (or simulator) and a little box converting RS232 to 50
BPS serial. Diagrams can be found everywhere. But you could also look at
There isn't such a converter thing ;-)
What you mean is a converter between current loop and V.28.
To be p
On Wed, 8 Dec 2021, Monty McGraw wrote:
I have this terminal in my garage - sitting on its custom stand.
That's a plain standard current loop telex machine using CCITT2 code. The
more modern electronic version of it is the T1000 (that was available as
5-bit CCITT2 and 8-bit ASCII).
Christia
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Christian Corti wrote:
Just tried without SerialDisk... no difference. K12MIT is broken on the
PDP-12.
I've found the bug. Charles Lasner broke PDP-12 support (and probably also
older PDP-8 models like 8/I) with his additions to support the DECmate
family. The location is
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Christian Corti wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
Are you running SerialDisk on the same DP12 that K12MIT is trying to use?
Hmm... good point, I think that I have tried both, from LINCtape and from
SerialDisk. I know, the latter won't work, but at least I
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
Are you running SerialDisk on the same DP12 that K12MIT is trying to use?
That might not work well, though I'm not sure why K12MIT would commit suicide
about it.
Hmm... good point, I think that I have tried both, from LINCtape and from
SerialDisk.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Chris Zach wrote:
Do you have a running pdp12?
Yes :-) It is completely working including the display and both LINCtape
drives.
Christian
So, with the help of you here, I was able to create OS/8 LINCtapes and to
run SerialDisk. Everything runs very fine.
Now comes the next thing: I want to have K12MIT, and it is no problem to
compile or load the program.
*But*: When I start K12MIT I don't get the prompt. I see the welcome
messag
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, it was written
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 3:15 AM Christian Corti via cctalk
Our Tektronix 4051 can talk to and use Commodore IEEE floppy drives for
mass storage. It has a custom ROM extension for it.
That's really cool. There are a few non-Commodore systems that were
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 6:09 PM Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
I kind of want to see now if an IBV11 and Commodore 1541 can be abused
into cooperating.
I think it could be done. The IBV11 can certainly keep up with the
6502 in the drive that's banging out th
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, ED SHARPE wrote:
The two contenders on tside leading g to the gold caphis question are
white and Gold 4004. And. The white and gold with leads showing through
in the white material i
And now in English, please!
Christian
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021, David Gesswein wrote:
Looks like your .BN isn't my sites BIN loader conversion. Did you try mine
and it didn't work or you had already done your own before I added it?
I made my own extraction from the image, but it is the same as yours. I
had written my own little program
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, David Gesswein wrote:
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 10:57:21AM -0500, Jay Jaeger wrote:
I have some LINCTape images with diagnostics. Let me know if you need one
and I can send you the image.
I can add them to my browsble archive if you wish.
http://www.pdp8online.com/images/in
On Wed, 3 Nov 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote:
It seems you didn't notice that I included two separate programs in my
previous post: XMTAPE and CMPTAP ;)
I did, and I have found an error ;-)
0275 0361 7300 #WDFLSH CLA CLL
0276 0362 1073 0073 TAD XMCNT [ IF COUNT==128.
0277 0363 1176
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Here is a program I wrote for reading/writing tape images via XModem protocol
for my PDP-12, and another for comparing two linctapes.
This is fantastic, thanks :-)
I hope this will help us in bootstrapping the PDP-12. At least I would
like to have a tape w
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
Another option would be to spin the data onto LINCtape with a TD8E, then
mount the result on the PDP-12. I think Dave is creating the images in the
first place with either a TD8E, or possibly a custom controller.
I think he used a custom controller
On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
There seem to be a couple of formats that were frequently used, and a third
lesser used format. One of the issues is that you have to go into
maintenance mode, as far as I can tell, to determine the size of the block
you just read into memory.
It
Short question:
How do I transfer LINCtape images back to tape on a PDP-12? Ideally there
is some binary program to load via papertape to format a tape and recreate
it with data transfer over the console serial line.
Christian
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/22/21 1:51 PM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
Hasn't worked for me in the past ...
guess I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue
Don't get me wrong, but I had written some emails in the last years
offering stuff for bitsavers (downloa
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
Bitsavers will post process and create a searchable PDF
Since when?
I think I'll just step away from the terminal for a few hours.
I've been OCRing uploads for YEARS.
Ok, I didn't know that you do that for foreign scans, I thought you only
OCR your own
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021, devin davison wrote:
I'm working to get my pdp 11/34 and 11/45 running. I was curious what
versions of unix or bsd would work on the machines i have. I wanted to set
I'm running 2.9BSD on both our 11/34 and 11/45.
If possible too, id like to be able to telnet in to unix
On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote:
B/W, CCITT Group 4 tiffs at 400dpi is what I do, but then I also
600 DPI should be the absolute mininum today. There is absolutely no
reason to go below that for B/W.
and notify Al Kossow of an available contribution.
Hasn't worked for me in the past
On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
I didn't see an obvious example of ocrmypdf doing OCR in parallel on a
single document
It does that by default. At least, it always uses all cores when I process
a document with ocrmypdf.
Christian
On Mon, 9 Aug 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
Whatever happened to PRIVATE replies.
It isn't even that hard to do, you just have to copy their source adr from
the message, since this list's default reply is to the whole
fsckin' list
That's why I have a procmail rule that fixes that:
REPLYTO_=`formai
On Mon, 26 Jul 2021, Peter Corlett wrote:
When writing, PC-style disk controllers scan for the appropriate sector
header then switch to write mode to overwrite the old sector data. This
requires guard bands between sectors and sector headers. The PC's
This is not called a guard band. A guard b
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I would love some sample ReGIS files, color or B&W. Anything, really.
You can use GNUplot with the terminal type set to ReGIS.
Christian
On Sat, 12 Jun 2021, Tony Duell wrote:
I wonder if in the original list, a '1' was misread as a '7' or vice
versa. I am told that in some countries the '7' is conventionally
written with a crossbar across the downstroke to avoid this. My father
always did this, for all it is not common in England
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Santo Nucifora wrote:
I am currently working on an IBM 5100 that has some issues. I know for
certain that the 5100 has a bad graphics controller card so I need to dig
into component level replacements for those ICs I can replace. I have a
list of logic chip equivalents to the
On Thu, 20 May 2021, David Collins wrote:
Orange based cleaners are also good - the ones that remove stickers etc
That will dissolve plastics! Don't use orange based cleaners. I just use
normal 97% ethanol (called Spiritus here). That will work just fine.
Christian
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021, Fritz Mueller wrote:
On Apr 28, 2021, at 9:51 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
I have other 45/70 drawings that i haven't pdf'ed
I need to see if they are different revs than what I already have
Ohh... I'd be very, *very* interested to see versions of the /45
drawings ot
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, Adrian Graham wrote:
I just got pipped on an auction for one of these last night, clearly
someone needed it more than me and I hope it was for a real usage reason
and not just to add to their collection of MDS-related machines.
I?ve been looking for an 8085 ICE for ages no
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Brent Hilpert wrote:
It's not clear what you're looking for:
1. A possible predecessor/origin for the source code or design of the MINCAL
interpreter,
2. or, earlier BASIC implementations that had the language features you
mention.
Well, both with the focus on 1.
I'm tr
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, it was written
If there are FORTRAN-esque commands added to the core Dartmouth version I
would search for another instance prior to MINICAL where this was done.
Back then BASIC flavors and adaptations were becomming common so it may
simply be MINICAL BASIC would have been ju
Hi,
I'm trying to find out if the BASIC dialect that was available for the
MINCAL computers (aboutn 1971) was something derived from another "system"
or whether it was an own dialect.
Some characteristic instructions that I can't find somewhere else are:
- Formatted output with PRINT FOR()
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Paul Koning wrote:
Some machines used 7-track paper tape that is narrower than 8 track
tape. I thought Whirlwind was one of those.
Yes, the LGP-30 uses 7-tack paper tape as well. Normal 8 track paper tape
is 25.4mm, 7 track tape 22.2mm. The latter is absolutely unobtanium
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Guy Dunphy wrote:
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -, you wrote:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
The better questions are:
Why is the price marked in GBP and why doesn't he ship to
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
I am a cctalk subscriber, but I don't seem to be getting messages reliably
any more. So, I'm replying to the reply, as I never got the original query.
Interesting, I did not get the original message either...
Christian
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
Not very often you see paper tape software for them
Unfortunately I haven't found *any* software for the 960, yet.
Christian
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Eric Moore wrote:
Yes, SEL was referred to as systems, but like I said that PDF does not seem
I still have problems seeing SEL referred to as something different as
"Standard Elektrik Lorenz" (later part of ITT) who made for example the
ER56...
Christian
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, carlos_muri...@ieee.org wrote:
to diminish it. Argh. A month ago my trusty HP9000/380 ran just fine and I
[...]
on; the power supply is dead. So I unracked the pile of drives and the
computer, checked for obvious things (the fuse is fine, and nothing in the
power supply
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
Copy protection is just a pain in the ass.
A tiny, tiny fraction of what I work with has any and
I'm very happy it is mostly used on consumer computers
which are being archived by others so I don't have to.
:-))
This is also my attitude. I just don't care a
On Tue, 2 Feb 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
Do you make these available online?
I found your version of IMD here
ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/utils
not under source control.
Ups, I see that this is a very old version. I'll update this with my
current version and I'll write some
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Al Kossow wrote:
Imagedisk, even though it spends way too much time with the heads
spinning on the media at least does real-time retries. the problem is
you also need to be able to stop and assemble a complete image by
splicing together multiple partial attempts.
Well, isn
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Fred Cisin wrote:
If you are READing 8" disks, and ONLY READing, then you can get away with a
simpler caable. The main time that you might need the fdadap is for TG43 for
writing. But, the fdadap is a convenient way to not have to make a cable.
You only need the TG43 sign
That reminds me of the APL\360 implementation running on the IBM 5100 and
5110 using a rudimental System/360 emulator written in PALM machine code
stored in the APL Executable ROS. The APL interpreter is stored in the APL
language ROS and was accessed like an I/O device, i.e. the emulator
fetch
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Aaron Jackson wrote:
The status currently is that the heads will load, and the ready lamp
flashes as the heads wobble back and forth very slightly, trying to lock
onto the outer servo guard band. Probing TP2 of the read/write module, I
can see the S1 servo burst flash (roughl
On Sun, 29 Nov 2020, Liam Proven wrote:
If there are any errors on the drive, I would recommend GNU
``ddrescue``. Do not confuse this with the older (but still
maintained) dd_rescue which is the product that inspired the GNU one;
the newer one is more capable.
It images but skips and continues o
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, geneb wrote:
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
[...]
I prefer my solution. If you opt to format the second side, you'll end
up clobbering the first side in the process. But then, what does this
bozo know?
FYI Christian, in case you weren't aware the "bozo
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, "Enrico email.it" wrote:
So this for to read 1st face A:
BEGIN MUP1 Mupid Seite 1 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25"
[...]
And this for to read the other side B:
BEGIN MUP2 Mupid Seite 2 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25"
[...]
Absolutely correct :-)
Christian
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, "Enrico email.it" wrote:
How should we configure 22disk to be able to do the same thing on the B side
of the same floppy disk?
Inserting Side 2 in the definition table is not enough
Actually, it is almost that ;-)
I have a similar system, the fl100 floppy drive system,
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, "Enrico email.it" wrote:
on internet I find the one related to ASSY 81098 (where the jumpers have the
[...]
while instead I am looking for the one related to ASSY 81118 (in which the
Sorry for the noise, I have missed the part about the assy number. I don't
have the one
On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, "Enrico email.it" wrote:
I was looking for the BASF 6104 drive manual.
Did you ask on classiccmp? If yes, I must have overseen that. Because, I
have it on our FTP server since a long time ;-)
ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/basf/BASF6104_Aug1981.pdf
Chri
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, it was written
Can I get a copy of that? I have a PC-X ;)
It can be found on our FTP server:
ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/siemens/pc-x
Christian
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Sean Ellis wrote:
Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix
3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested?
Interesting, yesterday I got a copy of Informix 2.0 for SINIX (a Siemens
XENIX derivate) for the PC-X.
Christian
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, ben wrote:
Does this mailing list have people using EBCDIC for example?
Yes, if for example I use Kermit on the IBM 5110 and connect to a UNIX
host. ;-) But in this case, my Kermit is doing the translation between
ASCII and EBCDIC.
Christian
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