MIne arrived too.
Sorry about the vast URL to Ruth Fegley's obituary. I had no idea it
would be published - congratulations to anyone who successfully types
it! I didn't bother to convert as links in emails are clickable.
QL Today editor whoever you are (Geoff?) - you should use
http://ti
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 19:09 | Oct5:
Petri/
Thanks, I actually had some 720k disks from way back so didn't have to
use the tape trick.
I salvaged yet another floppy drive from one of the old carcasses at
the office and this one actually works! It seems that the cumana
interface is v
Al Feng wrote, on 5/Oct/10 18:52 | Oct5:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:52:05 +0300 Petri Pellinen writes:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc
floppy
drive... So far, the results have been med
He he, now we know that Jochen causes as much havoc with the
international postal system as he did when that door fell off the
channel tunnel train an hour or two after he travelled :-)
And I won't go into all the problems I know he's had with cars and
assorted electronic bits and pieces over
Mine has arrived today here in France.
Regards,
Alain HAOUI
- Mail Original -
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À: ql-us...@q-v-d.com
Envoyé: Lundi 4 Octobre 2010 17h47:05 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne /
Rome / Stockholm / Vienne
Objet: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1
> Lucky you. Mine
Am 05.10.2010 20:09, schrieb Petri Pellinen:
Thanks, I actually had some 720k disks from way back so didn't have to
use the tape trick.
I salvaged yet another floppy drive from one of the old carcasses at
the office and this one actually works! It seems that the cumana
interface is very finicky
IF you can wait, I have a box of tested when packed away 3-1/2 drives that
ALSO
worked with My QL AND TS2068!
I am currently slaving away cleaning out of my mothers packed full house and
will not be home until next week.
Once Home I can dig out said box-o-mine and offer some drives for sale.
Thanks, I actually had some 720k disks from way back so didn't have to
use the tape trick.
I salvaged yet another floppy drive from one of the old carcasses at
the office and this one actually works! It seems that the cumana
interface is very finicky about the kind of drive it talks to (which
is t
FWIW. I think that you will probably be able to FORMAT the 3.5" disk via
the Cumana interface if you _cover_ the indexing hole and thereby ensure
that the dumb device isn't confused when it tries to format the HD disk
as a 720K disk ...
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:52:05 +0300 Petri Pellinen writes:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Tony Firshman wrote:
> I reckon you would be *far* better off if you could find a Gold Card or
> SuperGoldCard. They were much superior, with faster processor and added ram.
Yeah, I know... On the other hand, I'm looking at this as a
retrocomputing hobby and part o
Hi Peter,
thanks for sharing your experiences, very interesting stuff. There
also seems to be an ethernet "shield" or a daughterboard module for
the Arduino microcontroller platform which is based around the Wiznet
W5100 chip which Miguel mentioned. This combination would be an
interesting prototy
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 11:39 | Oct5:
Thanks Tony
You are right in assuming modern drives are seen as flp2_.
It may have a DS jumper somewhere if you want flp1_. These now are
generally solder jumpers on the pcb, but it may have external links.
One of my three drives does have the
Thanks for sharing, this was very interesting.
LT is a really one-of-a-kind person. My only touch with him was in
very odd circumstances. We were both doing our military service and in
the reserve officers' school at the time (yes, he has a reserve
officer rank :) ). Both of us were in the (very s
Thanks Tony
> You are right in assuming modern drives are seen as flp2_.
> It may have a DS jumper somewhere if you want flp1_. These now are
> generally solder jumpers on the pcb, but it may have external links.
One of my three drives does have the solder pad to change the setting
but I would b
Rich Mellor wrote, on 5/Oct/10 09:19 | Oct5:
On 05/10/2010 09:00, Tony Firshman wrote:
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc floppy
driv
On 05/10/2010 09:00, Tony Firshman wrote:
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc floppy
drive... So far, the results have been mediocre at
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5:
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc floppy
drive... So far, the results have been mediocre at best. I have
QDOS-formatted a DD floppy on t
Hello everyone,
I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL
yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5" pc floppy
drive... So far, the results have been mediocre at best. I have
QDOS-formatted a DD floppy on the Q-emuLator but when I hook up the
drive to the C
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