Anybody here using the old (relatively) Baynetworks Baystack Instant Internet 100? Mine uses version 7.00 firmware and software and was wondering if anybody had the firmware and software 7.20 for this unit. I got mine secondhand from a friend and you need a buisiness acount with Nortel (who purchased bay networks) to get newer software then 6.0.
> Does anyone on the list have one of these or have experience with them?
I gave a couple to Eric a while ago. Actually just found the boot disc
for one a week or two ago.
They run CP/M
At 16:21 PM 1/9/04 -0800, you wrote:
> What are you using 1702s in? My old Intel MDS systems use them.
I'm starting to play with an old Pro-Log board (4004-based with 3 1702
sockets).
-Cole
Someone posted a note a couple of weeks ago asking for HP 5036A trainer
schematics. At the time, mine were in storage, but I've since retrieved and
scanned them. If that person, or anyone else, needs, please contact me
off-list. --Patrick
I have an M4 Data tape drive, with the MK2 256K SCSI option board in it. I
am trying to use it with an adaptec 2940UW controller (off the 50 pin
connector) and the card doesn't seem to recognize the drive. Guess it's
possible the drive is on the fritz, but it was in pristine working shape
when I put it on the shelf (was my office demo unit, little used). So, I am
wondering if anyone has one of these, and what type of PC controller they
were using?
Hey, it's classiccmp related, trying to cut some tapes for my HP2000 :)
Jay
I am looking for older computers just to piddle around with and restore if ya know of anyone who has any that they just don't want or need and would give it away just to have it off their hands I would appreciate the info.
Have a great day
Dan
Another of today's finds. Two "Verbatim 24Mb High Capacity Flexible Disk
Servowritten and Verified 78 Sectors per Track 666 TPI". These have a hard
plastic shell with a shutter. I thought at first they were MO disks but
they're thinner plus the capacity is a lot less. I haven't figured out how
to release the shutter so I don't know what the media looks like. One disk
is label "Restricted Rights Encore Computer Corporation". It used to have
somehting typed on the label but it's all faded now and it's too faint to
read.
I've never seen these before. Does anyone know any more about them?
Joe
Hello,
I saw your query on a web search for the 9111A.
I worked in the HP factory where these were made
and they were a high-quality piece of equipment!
It's too bad that HP doesn't support it now.
Some 9111A manuals had example programs for the
85A and other GPIB system setups. The 9111A was
used with the HP300/9000 computers and EGS, which
was quite a powerful CAD system in its day and
you can find some of these systems still working.
The HP EGS software was written in Pascal.
The HP86B had a software program that would use
the 9111A tablet for some drafting work. And it
would plot out a tablet overlay, similar to EGS.
It was called the "Series 80 9111A Tools, Graphic
Tablet System, HP-86/87 Editor" and I still have
a single-sided disk here that was usable on the
old HP 9121 3.5" dual-floppy drive. I also have
a disk of the 9111A HP85 System Tools, but I don't
know if the disks are still good. I might have
the HP85 tools on a cassette also. My HP86B died
and so did my two HP85s. The HP86B might still
work somewhat, but I haven't had time to fix it.
The advantage of the HP86B and the HP87 were
that they had larger screens than the HP85, so
you could see a drawing on the screen better.
The 8-bit systems were pretty slow, however,
so it made any kind of CAD difficult.
One other idea on this is that CEC (Capital
Equipment Corp. in Massachusetts) made a GPIB
interface for the PC called the IEEE-488 and
in their promo literature it gave a GW Basic
program for using the 9111A with a PC. They
claimed to have used the tablet with an early
version of AutoCad but they would not sell a
driver and said it wasn't being marketed. It
gave some code examples in Basic & Pascal.
I've tried to find a PC mouse emulator for the
9111A tablet with no success, but a programmer
might write one without too much trouble. The
mouse protocol is published in some places. It
would require a system with GPIB, or a GPIB to
Serial bus converter like those made by IOtech.
You can find converters on eBay occasionally.
I've got a file of all this tablet stuff here
somewhere and have wanted to do more with this
since I own a 9111A and it sits here unused.
I used an Appoint MousePen with TurboCad once
and thought it worked better than an ordinary
mouse device. It has a feel more like the
tablet, but having used the 9111A with EGS,
I thought it made CAD drafting easier. Some
other types of tablets exist out there too
and some CAD magazines have printed reviews.
Using the 9111A depends on what you want to do.
I'm seeing more of a need for a digitizer, but
HP made some larger units for that task. The
HP7470A and HP7475A plotters can also be used
as digitizers with the Digitizing Scope. It
was an optical view finder that looked like a
plotter pen, only a bit larger in size. You
could put a drawing in the plotter and move it
around with the direction arrows and press the
"enter" button to log a point when you had the
Scope over the position wanted. The plotter
manuals had HPBASIC example programs to do
this. The X,Y data could be stored in arrays
and printed out or stored on disk or tape.
If you find out anything more on the HP9111,
I would like to know what you find.
Glenn Sherwood <gvsher(a)netzero.com>
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I bought an HP 9111A digitizing tablet on eBay for my HP-85
and I was wondering if anyone has the software needed to drive it.
Alternatively, if anybody has info on the communications protocol
used by the 9111A to talk to the HP-85 over the HP-IB bus, please
let me know.
Thanks
