[cctalk] Re: WTB: Keyboard for IBM 3290-1 terminal.

Sorry I don't have a lead on a keyboard for you, but man, I can still hear the beautiful music of those tiger screens updating... - David

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support (everything in my PDF was basically Courier), and most tables were broken

[cctalk] Re: IBM .BOO format

On 12/11/23 1:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote: Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the tools to read it? I've not found any way to open them on a Mac. No joy on Linux yet either; there's an old unmaintained tool that uses a 32-bit Java app. I found 2 Windows tools.

[cctalk] Re: Wanted: Apple III 5MB Profile HD driver file

Generally, a ProFile driver that is otherwise unspecified will be 5MB (i.e. https://apple3.org/iiisoftware.html#drivers ). There is a different card (ROM?) as you found out that will matter for 5 vs. 10MB variants and driver files. Good luck keeping that jet engine spooled up! - David

[cctalk] Re: imd2raw.c correction - linearizing ImageDisk images

Chuck Guzis wrote: > Just to clarify, if the formatted order is 1,3,5,2,4, IMDU will return > the sectors numbered as 1,2,3,4,5, right? A visual way to think about this is with IMDV. If you bring up a skewed image in IMDV and move forward through the sectors with the right arrow, it increments

[cctalk] Re: imd2raw.c correction - linearizing ImageDisk images

Chuck Guzis wrote: > David, may we assume that the original IMDU does things correctly? "Correctly" is not a word I'd necessarily use - but what is true is that the original imd2raw.c does it *differently* than IMDU.COM. I am using IMDU as my oracle, and have tuned imd2raw.c so that it matches

[cctalk] imd2raw.c correction - linearizing ImageDisk images

There have been a few versions of the utility imd2raw.c floating around that will take Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk-created images (i.e. an .IMD file) and make a linear binary image devoid of any metadata. This is similar to the function of Dave's IMDU.COM program's /b switch. I've corrected a

Re: DECmate II disk image tooling?

Good point about the CP/M disk - actually it is read just fine with cpmtools with this diskdef: # PRO CP/M RX50 DZ format (Perhaps only 79 tracks should be used?) diskdef dec_pro seclen 512 tracks 80 sectrk 10 blocksize 2048 maxdir 128 skew 2 boottrk 2 os 2.2 end So I'm left with

DECmate II disk image tooling?

I have some disks that look like they're from a DECmate II computer, standard RX50K drives. The disk images all look like they're a mix of 12-bit (OS/78 or OS/278?) and 8-bit all on the same media. I can't convince PUTR to make sense of the images, so I'm wondering if there is anything else out

Re: Anyone out there with a working Victor 9000 (US only)?

On 10/1/21 1:00 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: Got a small batch (8) of Victor 9000 floppies, MSDOS ca. 1985. I really don't want to write a decoder for such a small batch--I've got other things on the burner right now. Anyone want to take a crack at transferring the data? (Funds available).

Re: Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

On 4/12/21 1:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote: AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next... I never did warm up to it the same way. Twas ever thus, no? A universal truth. I remember an ad campaign for AIX when it was quite new... "We took UNIX and added millions of

Re: Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

On 4/9/21 3:23 PM, Nemo Nusquam wrote: On 2021-04-08 00:32, Ben Huntsman via cctalk wrote: I know this is a strange place to ask, but it's as good a place as any. Anyone on here used IBM's XLC in very old versions? Anyone know what the argument -qdebug=austlib does? I have the docs for IBM C

DEC RX50 disks with mystery content

Hello, DEC enthusiasts - I've got some 5-1/4" disks here that purport to be from a DECmate (probably II) and may have data offloaded from a bigger system. But the disks don't have any recognizable trace of a filesystem on them; just vast swathes of data that looks like this:

Re: RX02 DMK image to raw tool?

On 2/11/21 8:56 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: After sending my message I did some hard drive archeology and found the dmklib I downloaded five years ago. There were some adaptations to handle RX02 format and it worked quite well. At least when the disk has been read error free. However the version

Re: Apple ][+ ic

On 2/10/21 1:00 PM, John Many Jars wrote: So, I have an Apple ][+. It is missing an IC at location a3 on the motherboard. I don't know why. it used to work... I think my mind is going. I have no memory or removing it. Anyway, I need another one. The board is marked 74166. Can I put any

Re: RX02 DMK image to raw tool?

On 2/8/21 1:00 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: This is highly annoying. Back in 2015 I did exactly this and now I have forgotten how. I dumped a set of RX02 disks with catweasel into .DMK and now I want a raw sector image to be able to test them with SimH. What is a good tool to use? I have some faint

Re: Wanted: tech docs on original Iomega 8-inch full height 10MB Bernoulli drive (Alpha-10)

On 10/15/18 1:00 PM, cctech-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: From: Michael Brutman Hi Eric, I have working 10MB and 20MB units here being driven by a PC XT with the Iomega specific card for them. I've had to puts lots of effort into cleaning the heads on them. I'm not sure if there is an oxide

Panasonic Electronic Filing System - document scanner storage on MO disks

Hello, all - Has anyone run across the subject system - a mid-90s Motorola '030-based document scanner/retrieval system? KV-F520 seems to be a model of the unit, along with LF-7300A or LF-7304 5-1/4" MO drives. I have a hold of some media that I can read, and can see the moral equivalent of

Re: IBM 9331-011 8" External Floppy Drive - eBay 183038271095

On 2/1/2018 1:00 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:> ibm had 8in floppy drives in their black from the times of white? This was dressed to go with the AS/400 line. Mine is dated 1994. - David

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

On 3/13/2017 1:00 PM, cctech-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:57:54 -0400 From: Joe Giliberti To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Subject: Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro