Have you done any documentation of the SASI to serial adapter board?
I suspect these carts were used with a MacDrive based on their labels. It would be cool to recover the data.
Forgot I read...
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Have you done any documentation of the SASI to serial adapter board?
I suspect these carts were used with a MacDrive based on their labels. It would be cool to recover the data.
Forgot I read...
No, they are small hard magnetic platters
Nothing very exciting about them. Small removable disks with an ST-506 interface
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the basic mech dates from the mid-60s
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/roytron/Roytron_500_Series_Punch_Technical_Reference_Manual_May1970.pdf
chapter 4
Congratulations on saving the panel (eBay?), Electrodata/Burroughs 220 anything is difficult to find.
Bits of the 205 are everywhere thanks to Woody's Electrical Props
We have a 205...
it is a 3270/PC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270_PC
that also reminded me I haven't scanned the manual for BASIC
The two things I can think of would be the cartridges to support the external Xebec hard disk and the GWBASIC cart.
falter has been looking for schematics, but I don't know if Kurt ever had them.
Excess Solutions on 7th St in San Jose
http://www.excesssolutions.com/
You told Kurt you were going to keep the systems together
'insider sale of .org to ex ICANN senior execs working for a VC firm'
is what is actually happening
the jackass that got kurt's systems and is parting them out is back I see
all of that 'impossible to find' software has been imaged.
you're welcome..
email a shipping adr.
I just need to double-check I've read them
57632
data disc 7200, ca. 1972
kennedy tape drive. count the heads to see if it's 7 or 9 or look at the part number tag on the back
it's probably a model 3112 read after write model
yup, early in-circuit emulator, Microkit became Futuredata was bought by Genrad, then they sold the product line to Kontron
some docs under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/futuredata
it would be nice...
Use Dave's MFM emulator
It would be good to get him the flux-level image if his MFM reading tool doesn't recognize the sector format
so that it gets documented
A crayette (EL) is not
just talk to the cray-cyber people about it
https://cray-cyber.org/cray-ymp-el-start-up-after-vcfe-2018/
I assume you're thinking of buying the Houston machine.
https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1171896727613263873
and I can tell just by looking at the <part number><name><date> format of the filename that it came from bitsavers
yes, they are on bitsavers under bits/mindset
there is some simple copy protection on some (a few sectors written on track 41 of 40)
the rgb sync is weird. try it with an original NEC multisync if you have one
I still have the cable on the monitor, i'll draw out the pinout tomorrow
Try resoldering the crystal and the caps. I had this happen on one of the machines I was using.
It has no effect on the machine booting, you just won't get any sound.
If you were expecting some...
And inside, the bubble wrap was that special oily kind that comes from China that reeks of VOHs
"a plastic shipping bag"
I've gotten two things in the past week where eBay cheapskates took six Priority Mail bags and some Fedex Plastic bags
and packed one inside of another, and wrapped it in...
a confusing aspect of the Model 1 is it is more similar to the Model 70 than the Models 2,3 or 4
and was released after them in 1970
you might look at the documentation on...