On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:29 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk
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> Last time that I tried to research it, I found that there had once been an
> external drive in which the USB and controller werenot integrated with the
> drive electronics, so that it could easily get a different drive
> connected.
Interestingly, i'm looking at procuring a reasonably vintage laptop for
a computer festival i'm planning to attend soon. It seems that many
laptops of the PIII era use SuperIO chips, but i'm rather confused as to
how "low level" they get.
Some of you may remember my RCA MS2000. I've had
What op sys and version do you want to run on it? Windows changed the way
drivers work after Xp so it may be an isshe. That made replacement of older PCs
that controlled equipment like xray, MRI, and industrial stuff impossible as
the manufacturers couldn’t write new drivers — lost the
Has anyone ever looked at using the P112 to read and write these classic
format floppies? I understand it can do 8" CPM floppies so that would imply
the controller has all the needed modes.
bill
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 2:03 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
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> On 5/22/2023 11:53 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
> > I learned a long time ago that it's a waste of time to trying to help
> > someone who, instead of focusing on solutions, just comes up with endless
> > reasons why your
The C256Foenix FMX uses a SuperIO chip:
https://wiki.c256foenix.com/index.php?title=ICs
> On 24 May 2023, at 12:18, emanuel stiebler via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Anybody out here, still in business using them?
> Which ones are still easily available?
> (I look for something which has 2 UARTs, FDC
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:54 AM emanuel stiebler wrote:
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> On 2023-05-24 05:26, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:29 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Last time that I tried to research it, I found that there had once been an
> >> external drive in which the
On 2023-05-24 05:26, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:29 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
Last time that I tried to research it, I found that there had once been an
external drive in which the USB and controller werenot integrated with the
Alas some spoilsport has
Anybody out here, still in business using them?
Which ones are still easily available?
(I look for something which has 2 UARTs, FDC and IDE?)
Thanks
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/embedded-controllers-and-super-io
https://www.microchip.com/en-us/parametric-search.html/674
>From a QL 0.5 mm pitch QFP will be as good as it gets, and a lot of the parts
>are NRFND, EoL, etc
Interesting that these parts continue to exist.
Ano option
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 2:21 PM Paul Koning wrote:
> > I do seriously wonder why nobody has been suggesting the
> > flux-transition type of device. If it can be got to work then it would
> > seem the ideal solution in that it can handle anything the disk drive
> > [1] can handle, including non
I realize he's a bit eccentric, (even more so than many of us ;-) ), but I
think we're being a little hard on Tony, especially considering the many
contributions he's made to our hobby over the years with reverse-engineered
schematics and other obscure documentation.
If there weren't so much
What op sys and version do you want to run on it? Windows changed the
way drivers work after Xp so it may be an isshe. That made replacement
of older PCs that controlled equipment like xray, MRI, and industrial
stuff impossible as the manufacturers couldn’t write new drivers — lost
the
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