test-drb September 2001

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by Diff＠Mac.com

Hello, A friend of mine recently offered to get me a Zilog System 8000 system that he says is currently acting as a plant stand. Does anyone have any information on these systems, and if it is not a larger machine (I am interested in workstation and mini class machines), would anyone have an interest in this box? Zach

24 years, 1 month

FYI: Proper flag uses per Public Law 93-344

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On September 23, Russ Blakeman wrote: > Just for those who aren't aware of the proper uses and display of the US > flag in this moment of everyone just having to display it lately, here's a > well done resource for reference. This is a guideline made from US Public > Law 93-344 and done in a layman's format so it's easy to grasp and use. It > might even be a good idea for local newspapers to print a variation of this > once to inform people that don't know that they may be "doing it wrong" > > http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/dva/museum/flaguse.html For those who think our government isn't overstaffed and overflowing with people who have too much free time on their hands...this should erase all doubt once and for all. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

Archiving floppies?

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Gordon: I use two tools. 2FILE/2FLOPPY, a freeware utility from PC Magazine and written in the early 90's. Alternatively, I use Microsoft's READIMG/WRITIMG programs. The Microsoft programs I don't believe are available publicly -- I got them from one of the early Chicago beta CDs I think. I'm sure that there are other more modern utilities available on shareware.com or download.com. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Zaft [mailto:zaft@azstarnet.com] Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 5:52 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Archiving floppies? Does anyone have any recommendations on software (preferably free) for archiving old DOS floppies? What I'd like to do is to be able to make disk images of all (okay, maybe just 'many') of the old DOS floppies I have so that if they disks get trashed or the bits fall off I can remake 'em. I'm assuming I'd probably be making these archives from a Windoze box although DOS or even FreeBSD or Linux is a possibility. Thanks in advance. GZ

24 years, 1 month

CPU design at the gate level

by alan.pearson＠cramer.com

Thanks to all who replied with book refs for bitslice processors & CPU design, time for a trip to the city library this lunchtime :) Cheers Al.

24 years, 1 month

Archiving Floppies

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

Michael B. Brutman wrote: > For copyprotected diskettes I'm using Teledisk, although I don't > trust it entirely. Teledisk is also good for damaged diskettes, I stopped trusting TD once I found that it would not restore 5-1/4" 360k floppies on my machine - if only I'd found out before archiving 50-odd of them that way. It seemed OK with the 3-1/2" floppies, but I'd stopped trusting it by then! > which the raw binary formats can't handle. (The damage looks like > copy protection.) The downside to teledisk is the portability ... > I'll need a DOS machine forever to read the data. I don't have this > problem with the raw binary images. Exactly. I'd prefer a program that was able to cope with any MS-DOS floppy and had a documented "image" format. I'm still looking, although the DR-DOS DISKCOPY is probably what I will use once I start again. Antonio

24 years, 1 month

OT: Anybody have a rom image of a modern TI graphing calculator?

by fernande＠internet1.net

I want to run a TI calculator emulator on my Windows computer. I need a rom image for the specific calculator I want to emulate to do that. You're supposed to download the rom from your own calculator. My main reason for wanting to run the emulator, However, is to try out one of TI's newer calculators BEFORE I buy one. I have an 85, but I'd like to try out a 86, or a 92/92Plus. Do any of you already run emulators and have a rom image you could send? Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

24 years, 1 month

Zilog 8000

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On September 23, Zach Malone wrote: > A friend of mine recently offered to get me a Zilog System 8000 system > that he says is currently acting as a plant stand. Does anyone have any > information on these systems, and if it is not a larger machine (I am > interested in workstation and mini class machines), would anyone have an > interest in this box? I ran one for years. Whaddya wanna know? If you don't take it, I certainly will. I regret having sold mine about 10-12 years ago. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

FYI: Proper flag uses per Public Law 93-344

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On September 23, Chad Fernandez wrote: > Why? You think we shouldn't have guidelines for the flag? It's not > like the flag police are going to come and inspect your flag. That's not the problem. The problem is the fact that we PAID some idiot suit to come up with this crock. I've always maintained that people like this (with too much free time and the need to look like they're "doing something") need some REAL problems to deal with. Now that they've GOT some real problems, the idiots who can't figure out what to do are just going to make even bigger asses of themselves. -Dave PS - No, I'm actually in a great mood today. -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

Archiving Floppies

by mbbrutman＠magnaspeed.net

For DOS floppies, I make a disk image and store the files to zip. The disk image is in case I missed anything, or if the diskette is bootable. The zip file is for normal file manipulation. With CD-ROM space so cheap, why not do both? The particular archiver I use is dd under linux, or fdimage, loaddskf, or any other archiver that makes a binary image of the diskette. No compression or meta data ... I can tell what type of disk it was by the resulting size, and I can compress with zip or gzip. The raw binary images are mountable under Linux. For copyprotected diskettes I'm using Teledisk, although I don't trust it entirely. Teledisk is also good for damaged diskettes, which the raw binary formats can't handle. (The damage looks like copy protection.) The downside to teledisk is the portability ... I'll need a DOS machine forever to read the data. I don't have this problem with the raw binary images. Has anybody used CopyIIPC and Snatchit? That's supposed to work too. It's an old pirating technique, but it is applicable to archiving copyprotected disks.

24 years, 1 month

updated panels page

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

I've updated the panels page at the House of VAX <http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/> (about 1/3 down the page is the link to the panels) to include the VAX 4000/300,400,500,... panel. So if you're wondering what the things do on this panel here is a handy reference. --Chuck

24 years, 1 month

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