4-Sep-89 16:40:02-MDT,3217;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 4-Sep-89 16:14:09 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 16:14:08 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #171 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 4 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 171 Today's Topics: Current version of ZSM Plu*Perfect Systems and TurboROM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Aug 89 18:44:28 GMT From: ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@decvax.dec.com (David Goodenough) Subject: Current version of ZSM ZSM V2.3 _IS_ the "current" version of ZSM. It's been stable and frozen for about two years now, although as time permits I will start to work on V2.4 - there are a couple of enhancements that need to go in. However if you've got a V2.3 (available from SIMTEL20 or rna@lakart.uucp) you're about as up to date as it's possible to be. For the gentleman at the University of Hawaii who wanted my address, ask tbopp there (Tom Bopp) what he's using to reach me, alternatively try one of the below. _DON'T_ reply to this: it'll wind up on lakart (the UNIX machine at work). Send it to pallio, which is my machine at home. -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 13:45:43 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Plu*Perfect Systems and TurboROM Bill Swan asked: "Be that as it may - the Kaypro in question is vanilla, so where can I get a 'TurboROM' or 'KROM', and how much is *that*? Also, do you have an address for Plu*Perfect?" First for the address of Plu*Perfect: Plu*Perfect Systems 410 23rd Street Santa Monica, CA 90402 213-393-6105 (evenings) The TurboROM, developed by Plu*Perfect, is available from Advent at the following address: Advent Products 3154-F LaPalma Avenue Anaheim, CA 92806 714-630-0446 Advent specializes in Kaypro computer add-ons of various sorts. I believe that the TurboROM costs about $60 and, from what I have heard from owners, it is well worth the price: much faster and more flexible disk operations and other improvements in the operation of the computer. I am less sure of the K-ROM. I believe that is the modified Kaypro ROM offered by the publishers of MicroCornucopia magazine. My feeling is that the TurboROM offers a wider range of features and support. For example, Plu*Perfect sells a program called Multicopy that is like Uniform and allows the TurboROM-equipped Kaypro to handle many CP/M disk formats as native formats and to work with amazing speed. Bridger Mitchell, the principal of Plu*Perfect, is a regular reader and contributor to this newsgroup, but the current rules prohibit him from promoting his own products. I'm sure he will be happy to answer any technical questions, however. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #171 ************************************* 8-Sep-89 17:02:29-MDT,6551;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 8-Sep-89 16:53:07 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 16:53:07 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #172 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 8 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 172 Today's Topics: Dynabyte peripherals/manuals MP/M Sanyo MBC-3000 Help Needed TATUNG TP2000 user wanted Televideo 802 (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Sep 89 00:42:54 GMT From: deimos.cis.ksu.edu!cveg!cseg!bbs00052@uunet.uu.net (Albert Crosby) Subject: Dynabyte peripherals/manuals o I need some help from someone out there with a Philips P2000c computer. I bought it new 3 years ago, and I've got a couple of difficulties. First, I've got some power supply problems. The system refuses totart with h the power supply connector attached. If I unhook the lines from the power supply to the computer (inside the case), it will start up OK after the power supply is 'warmed up'. Anyone got any ideas or a source for parts, schematics, etc? Second, I've never been able to get anything from the serial communications port. I can use the printer port, but the comm port doesn't seem to do anything. Does anyone know the pinouts, voltage levels, Z80 portsm etc. that I need to use the port? My mnachine also has a 8086 CoPower board with 512k of memory. Does any one k Sorry about the format of this article. I'm sending it from a BBS at the U of Arkansas, and we just got the ability to post articles. There's no info any where for us about using the editor! Does anyone know what the latest version of the Terminal ROM and Preliminary bootstrap for MS-DOS on this machine is? And if there has been an upgrade since I bought mine, where can I get it? Thanks in advance. Albert Crosby :-) (Please post responses to this group!) or write at Route 1 Box 400F Fayetteville, AR 72701 U S A ------------------------------ Date: 6 Sep 89 01:22:06 GMT From: pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ian R. Justman) Subject: MP/M Can anyone out there recommend any good reference works on MP/M? Thanks in advance. -- Home: Ian Justman |UUCP: |"One of the few 6612 Whitsett Drive | |die-hard CP/M North Highlands, CA 95660| pacbell!sactoh0!ianj |addicts left on this (916) 344-5360 | |planet" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 11:21:11 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Sanyo MBC-3000 Help Needed My brother's Sanyo MBC-3000 (8" drives) system just failed again, and it does not seem to be worthwhile to spend another couple of hundred dollars to get the boards replaced. Debugging is impossible with that machine because of the asynchronous, dual-processor architecture. Besides, the performance was terrible because of the way that architecture was implemented. The problem is that some important data is stored on double-sided, double-density diskettes in the unknown Sanyo format. I tried reading them with an ATR-8000, which is pretty good at identifying and accepting various 8" formats, but it refuses to read them. Does anyone out there have (or know of someone who has) an MBC-3000? In return for help in converting the data on the diskettes to IBM SSSD standard format I would be willing to send them some of the hardware (such as the PC board or boards) to keep as spares for when their machine dies. I would also entertain any offers for the purchase of this hardware (in case someone wants a couple of 8" DSDD disk drives, a good power supply, a monitor, etc.). If you want to make an offer, you had best be in the greater Boston area. What the MBC-3000 lacks in software, it makes up in hardware. It is a beautifully put-together machine that used plenty of metal. In short, it weighs a ton! I would not even attempt to ship it. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: 6 Sep 89 23:41:54 GMT From: mcsun!unido!cosmo2!fifi%cosmo.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (A.F.Zinser) Subject: TATUNG TP2000 user wanted It's really important! I7ve got a TATUNG TP2000 *without* any paperware, descriptions,.... Who knows, where I could get it? Better: Who owns anything about it - perhaps brainware... Who can help us? A.Zinser +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ _ ! ! Axel F. Zinser (_!_) (_!_) ...uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!fifi | ! Hannover, W-Germany ! ! fifi@cosmo.UUCP ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 11:21:24 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Televideo 802 Can anyone tell me how to configure the serial ports (and other hardware features) of the Televideo 802 computer. I acquired one second hand, but the owner had lost the manual and, I believe, the diskette containing hardware-specific utilities. I have only the Digital Research CP/M diskette and diskettes with some application programs (WordStar, The Word Plus, and so on). The most immediate problem is getting a serial printer working. From somewhere I had gotten a program called TVSET. I don't know if it works on my Televideo 803, but it does work nicely on the 802 and looks as though that is the machine it was intended for (it can define a string for the 25th line of the display -- which the 802 has but of which there is no sign on the 803). If someone has any other utilities that came with the machine, I would appreciate it if I could get a copy. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: 7 Sep 89 17:25:25 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!Michael_Dennis_Evenson@uunet.uu.net Subject: Televideo 802 Give me a call at 214-641-7900 and I will send you a manual. I have quite a few 802's of my own, and really only need 1 manual. Mike Evenson ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #172 ************************************* 11-Sep-89 20:07:06-MDT,7562;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 20:00:13 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #173 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 11 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 173 Today's Topics: BBS program Looking for Apple CP/M software North Star Advantage. Please report SIMTEL20 ftp problems to ACTION tatung tp2000 *HELP NEEDED* z280 hardware problem (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Sep 89 19:49:10 GMT From: mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!mikes@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mike Squires) Subject: BBS program In article <903DISPATCH@NCSUVM> DISPATCH@NCSUVM.BITNET writes: >Does anyone know of a multi-sig BBS program that will run on a Kaypro 4 with no > HD (I'm looking towards a Message only board, no D/L's). Please reply in this > SIG. The original version of Citadel runs on a Kaypro. It supports something like 32 or 64 "rooms"; each room has a message system. There is also a central mail facility. A room may have a directory and have file up/downloads. I believe that the last version that operated under CP/M that I know about was 2.15. It was available from the C User's Group (they advertise in programming oriented mags). It's also on my system in the UNaXcess BBS at 814 337 3159 (TB+) or 814 337 0348 (1200/2400). Michael L. Squires uucp: {necntc,cwjcc,hoptoad}!ncoast!peng!sir-alan!mikes 752 Chestnut Street ..!{pitt,uunet!convex,uunet}!sir-alan!mikes Meadville, PA 16335 BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) Voice: 814 337 5528 MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Data: 814 337 0348 Internet: sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net login of "ubbs" for BBS sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu ------------------------------ Date: 11 Sep 89 03:20:29 GMT From: asuvax!hrc!xroads!cc@handies.ucar.edu (Dan McGuirk) Subject: Looking for Apple CP/M software I am looking for Apple CP/M software. I have an ALS CP/M card which runs CP/M 3.0. I particularly want/need a good term program and a C compiler. I also need some way to convert files from ProDOS to CP/M format because I obviously can't download straight into CP/M right now..(and now you know why I need the term program..) Umm, yeah, well, anyway, please reply by mail. I will summarize if there are any requests. [Please note: I cannot FTP.] cc@xroads.UUCP -- \ / C r o s s r o a d s C o m m u n i c a t i o n s /\ (602) 941-2005 300|1200 Baud 24 hrs/day / \ hplabs!hp-sdd!crash!xroads!cc ------------------------------ Date: 9 Sep 89 18:55:47 GMT From: van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a567@uunet.uu.net (Bruce Peltzer) Subject: North Star Advantage. Here's the scenario... Dusting out my closet, I have come across a pair of North Star Advantages. One works fine, the other has a dead screen (tube is ok, it might be the flyback) but, the CP/M system master disk is dead. I'd like to get at least one of these things working again so here is the question... Does anyone have a copy of the original North Star GCP/M that they would be willing to part with for a reasonable price? Please? Now for the other stuff... Is there a way to make these things work with soft sectored disks? Hard sectored disks are getting hard to come by these days. Any help would be appreciated. -bp-. ---------------------------------------------------------------- THIS SPACE FOR LEASE ---------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: a567@mindlink.UUCP GEnie: b.peltzer2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 16:49 MDT From: Keith Petersen Subject: Please report SIMTEL20 ftp problems to ACTION I received the following email today from an Internet FTP user: > I have been trying to get stuff from simtel for the past few days. > Except on one occasion, I have always been disconnected in the middle > of a file transfer. This happens more frequently with big files. It > happens only with simtel, not with other anonymous FTP sites. If this is widespread we need to know about it. Please send reports of FTP problems to: ACTION@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Please do not send them to me. I maintain the archives, not the SIMTEL20 network software. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74] Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 89 21:52:12 GMT From: mcsun!unido!cosmo2!fifi%cosmo.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (A.F.Zinser) Subject: tatung tp2000 *HELP NEEDED* Who in heaven (or on earth) owns a tatung tp2000? On my last request some days or few weeks ago I've got *no* response - aren't there anymore built (than our two ones)? It's really important! thanks in advance, a.zinser +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ _ ! ! Axel F. Zinser (_!_) (_!_) ...uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!fifi | ! Hannover, W-Germany ! ! fifi@cosmo.UUCP ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 89 21:47:59 GMT From: mcsun!unido!cosmo2!fifi%cosmo.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (A.F.Zinser) Subject: z280 hardware problem We've still problems... Who has experience driving memory (dram) in a z280-system using the z280-bus-mode (*not* z80 bus mode)? thanks in advance, a.zinser +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ _ ! ! Axel F. Zinser (_!_) (_!_) ...uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!fifi | ! Hannover, W-Germany ! ! fifi@cosmo.UUCP ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 11 Sep 89 17:47:28 GMT From: oliveb!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun@apple.com (Doug Braun ~) Subject: z280 hardware problem I, too would like to hear about hooking up DRAMS to a Z280. I currently have one using 128K of static RAM (32Kx8 chips) in 16-bit z280 mode, with burst mode working on a 5-HHz bus. I would like to go to a 10-MHz bus, but I would need to use static-column DRAMs (256Kx4 parts) to get enough speed. This system currently runs CP/M 3 with a 20 meg SCSI hard disk very well. If you are thinking of building a Z280 system, get in touch with me, and I can relate my experiences (and circuit diagrams, etc.) Doug Braun Intel Corp CAD 408 765-4279 / decwrl \ | hplabs | -| oliveb |- !intelca!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun | amd | \ qantel / ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #173 ************************************* 15-Sep-89 13:57:06-MDT,4059;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 15-Sep-89 13:54:00 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 13:53:58 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #174 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 15 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 174 Today's Topics: BBS program Kaypro II technical docs MEX using MP/M North Star Advantage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 12 Sep 89 03:20:57 GMT From: ogccse!blake!callisto@ucsd.edu (Finn) Subject: BBS program In regards to 8 bit citadels: versions of the 2.10 series tend to be unstable and buggy. The people who first distributed the code (CRT & BAK) created an improved version caller 2.20. Things being things, the 2.10 seems to be the version that got distributed far and wide. If you are actually going to try to put a Citadle online, mail me and I'll be glad to mail you back 220 source code, which has the following improvements; Runs (will stay up for extended periods without 'fixing' Readable source code uses BDS-C 1.5 will run on almost any cp/m system with minimal patching. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 89 12:01:09 GMT From: murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs@uunet.uu.net (Don Stokes, GPO) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs Hi All. I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this info on hand, or know of a good source? Also, the SBASIC manual was parted from the machine when I got it (everything else seemed to be there, ie MBASIC [yuck!], the Perfect suite etc) - anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? Don Stokes / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand___________don@gp.govt.nz________ A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point when you can't think any more. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 89 03:06:02 GMT From: pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ian R. Justman) Subject: MEX using MP/M Has anyone used MEX with MP/M? I'm currently doing it, but I can't do any other tasks otherwise I will lose characters. I'll probably have to write some sort of interrupt driven routine, but MP/M needs interrupts in order to process calls from other consoles. Any help on this matter will be definitely appreciated. -- Home: Ian Justman |UUCP: |"One of the few 6612 Whitsett Drive | |die-hard CP/M North Highlands, CA 95660| pacbell!sactoh0!ianj |addicts left on this (916) 344-5360 | |planet" ------------------------------ Date: 12 Sep 89 21:26:34 GMT From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!wicat!keithm@ucsd.edu (Keith McQueen) Subject: North Star Advantage. In article <488@mindlink.UUCP> a567@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Peltzer) writes about North Star Advantage boot disks. I have an advantage with GCP/M boot disks and other miscellaneous software but the machine is at my sister's house about 50 miles north of here. Not terribly convenient. Anyway, if you don't find one anywhere else, contact me at (801)224-6605 and I'll see what I can do. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Keith McQueen, Wicat Systems Inc. , (801)224-6605 | My opinions are | | N7HMF @ NV7V (84058), 147.34+, 449.675- | all mine... | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #174 ************************************* 20-Sep-89 01:22:43-MDT,5036;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 20-Sep-89 01:14:53 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 89 01:14:53 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #175 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 20 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 175 Today's Topics: Amstrad PCW SIG Help with UNSIT Kaypro II technical docs MEX using MP/M QTERM and C128 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 09:30:42 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Amstrad PCW SIG For those with an interest in Amstrad computers, here is the address for a support group called the Amstrad PCW SIG: Amstrad PCW SIG 2751 Reche Canyon Road #93 Colton, CA 92324 Al Warsh, the director of the group, publishes a regular newsletter, the frequency of which I forget. Neither the newsletter nor the members of the group are particularly technically inclined, but if you have an Amstrad, this is the only place I know of in the United States to which you can turn for any support. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 03:51:00 GMT From: mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!alex.burger@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (ALEX BURGER) Subject: Help with UNSIT Has anyone been able to make UNSIT unpack any of the SIT files made by the Macintosh? I didn't have too much trouble with UNPIT, but UNSIT just doesn't seem to work properly. I haven't tried it for quite a while, but from what I remember, it always gave file errors about the header... If ANYONE has been able to UNSIT ANYTHING, could you please tell me how you did it? I imagine that all you need to type is: UNSIT filename Is there something I'm missing out? If it help, I'm using a Commodore 128. Alex Burger - Canada Remote Systems --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 04:47:28 GMT From: mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!mikes@purdue.edu (Mike Squires) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs In article <306@gp.govt.nz> GPWRDCS@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO) writes: >Hi All. > >I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, >particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this >info on hand, or know of a good source? > MicroCornucopia magazine specialized in the Kaypro/Big Board/Xerox 820 systems for quite a while. They published schematics, upgrades, etc. Michael L. Squires uucp: {necntc,cwjcc,hoptoad}!ncoast!peng!sir-alan!mikes 752 Chestnut Street ..!{pitt,uunet!convex,uunet}!sir-alan!mikes Meadville, PA 16335 BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) Voice: 814 337 5528 MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Data: 814 337 0348 Internet: sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net login of "ubbs" for BBS sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu ------------------------------ Date: 16 Sep 89 20:19:25 GMT From: ogccse!blake!callisto@ucsd.edu (Finn) Subject: MEX using MP/M In article <1832@sactoh0.UUCP> ianj@sactoh0.UUCP (Ian R. Justman) writes: >Has anyone used MEX with MP/M? I'm currently doing it, but I can't >do any other tasks otherwise I will lose characters. I'll probably >have to write some sort of interrupt driven routine, but MP/M needs >interrupts in order to process calls from other consoles. Any help >on this matter will be definitely appreciated. I used MEX with MP/M on an Altos 580 for quite some time, and found: Mex worked fine up to about 1200 baud, then gave up and lost characters. Sometimes, particularly after using x-modem, a "phase of the moon" type error caused mex to lock up that user when exiting to system. Sometimes the problem could be solved by killing the process from another terminals, and sometimes it was necessary to re-boot the machine. I suspect this resulted from mex writing into the common memory above C000. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 19:53:40 MDT From: Raymond Carter STEWS-NR-AD Subject: QTERM and C128 In the last "Livewire" magazine from GEnie, they mention QTERM as being available. They also mention there is a C-128 overlay. I have downloaded QTERM (from SIMTEL), but can't find the C-128 overlay. If anyone has one, it would be nice to get it up on GEnie and SIMTEL. Please let me know if it is available ( I have looked on GEnie and SIMTEL, and also have a Compuserve account), before I waste time reinventing the wheel!! Much Thanks in advance - QTERM sounds great (using MEX now). ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #175 ************************************* 22-Sep-89 15:06:20-MDT,9801;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 15:00:07 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #176 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 22 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 176 Today's Topics: BASCOM Help Needed CP/M emulator for unix H/Z-19 terminal for sale Installing QTERM 4.1e for Xerox 16/8 Interrups and CP/M on Apple ][ Kaypro II technical docs NOVADOS bug report ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 89 11:44:23 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: BASCOM Help Needed We need to run the Microsoft MBASIC compiler BASCOM. I have the program (I am still looking for LINK, but I think the SLR linker will do), but I cannot locate a manual and do not know the syntax to use. Can anyone help with a quick rundown on the syntax and/or a reference to a published book or article on the subject. Thanks. This need, by the way, arose in my capacity as a Boston Computer Society trouble-shooter. Someone's accounting package, written in Microsoft BASIC, suddenly stopped working properly. The user has the source code and, upon examining it, discovered an error in some date processing steps. Everything was fine until this month. He thinks he has the fix but must now recompile the code. -- Jay Sage, SAGE @ LL.LL.MIT.EDU, 617-981-4704 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Sep 89 01:59:19 GMT From: sunybcs!fredonia!will@rutgers.edu (James A. Will) Subject: CP/M emulator for unix Does a CP/M emulator exist for unix? Where might I look to answer this question? Thanks Jim UUCP: ...!{watmath,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!fredonia!will ------------------------------ Date: 21 Sep 89 15:13:21 GMT From: aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!aerosmith.rutgers.edu!moskowit@rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) Subject: H/Z-19 terminal for sale My 12-year old CP/M homebuilt computer just died. If anyone is interested in buying (cheap!) a working H/Z-19 terminal or a dual 8" SSDD (Siemens) disk drive box, drop me e-mail. The computer itself has a Morrow motherboard, North Star CPU and 16K RAM boards, Morrow DJDMA disk controller, Ithaca Intersystems 64k and I/O boards, and a Sunny power supply. At least one (who knows which one) of the boards is dead. If you're interested in a piece or all of this box, drop me a line. Len Moskowitz ...!rutgers!paul!moskowit moskowitz@bendix.com (CSnet) moskowitz%bendix.com@relay.cs.net (ARPAnet) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 11:17:11 -0400 From: olmiller@xibm.asd.contel.com (Otto Miller) Subject: Installing QTERM 4.1e for Xerox 16/8 I ftp'd QTERM 4.1e from simtel20. Included in the library is a patch file for the Xerox 16/8 (QTP-XER2.ASM). ASM on my machine gags on the third (maybe the fourth) 'equ' at the beginning of the file. I started to convert the .ASM to a .Z as shown in the generic example (the name escapes me now) in the library, but what a pain in the back(side). Is there someone that has a .Z for the above, or, can someone enlighten me as to potential, real, perceived problems with the .ASM or my ASM? Thanks in advance, for any assistance! Also, please e-mail me directly in that we just moved and our postmaster has been overwhelmed, so I am not on regular distribution of group! Either 'olmiller@xibm.asd.contel.com' or 'olmiller@europa.asd.contel.com' should get here. Thanks Again! Otto L. Miller Contel Federal Systems Sector Applied Systems Division 15000 Conference Center Drive PO Box 10814 Chantilly, VA 22021-3808 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Sep 89 01:25:28 GMT From: hpda!athertn!paul@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Sander) Subject: Interrups and CP/M on Apple ][ I have a "CP/M Card" made by Advanced Logic Systems installed slot 4 in my Apple ][ Plus, and a Super Serial Card installed in slot 2. I'd like to run a telecommunication program under DOS or ProDOS with the SSC's interrupts enabled, but find that turning on interrupts prevents CP/M from booting. My guess is that the SSC is generating an inturrupt either when reset or when CP/M initializes it somehow. Does anyone know of a way to make the two coexist, short of soldering on a toggle switch in parallel with the DIP switch (for my particular system, it's too much of a pain to unstack all the stuff that lives on top of the Apple, open it, take the card out, flip the switch, and reassemble). I do not have any source code for the CP/M BIOS or bootup code. Many thanks in advance for the help. -- Paul Sander (408) 734-9822 | If a machine is powerful enough paul@Atherton.COM | to have a DWIM button, why bother {decwrl,sun,pyramid}!athertn!paul | with the button? -- Eric Black ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 89 12:50:29 GMT From: uhccux!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Don Stokes, GPO) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs Hi All. I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this info on hand, or know of a good source? Also, the SBASIC manual was parted from the machine when I got it (everything else seemed to be there, ie MBASIC [yuck!], the Perfect suite etc) - anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? Don Stokes / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand___________don@gp.govt.nz________ A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point when you can't think any more. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 89 02:23:00 GMT From: mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!wayne.hortensiu@uunet.uu.net (WAYNE HORTENSIU) Subject: NOVADOS bug report There is a serious bug in Novados release H (and possibly earlier releases as well) that crops up when the number of entries used in your disk's directory becomes a multiple of 256. Symptoms include: all files disappearing that are after then first 256 entries, being able to open files that disappear when you try to close them, and two copies of a file showing up in the directory, one with 0 blocks used. To make matters worse, when the NovaDOS fast boot option was used, the problem would vanish if the directory had fewer then 256 entries used when it was initally logged in at startup. You could add files to your heart's content until you crossed the 512 entry boundary, when half of your files would promptly vanish. The incorrect code, taken from NVDS-2.Z80, is shown below: ; ; NOVADOS CODE -- INCORRECT -- Set last file ; setlf: call tstlf ; Test last file ret c ; No then exit inc de ; Increment last file ld (hl),e ; << Save it in temp0 inc hl ; << -- argh! temp0+1 ld (hl),d ; << & temp0+2 !! ret ; And exit ; ; Test last file ; tstlf: ld hl,(temp0) ; Get pointer to last file ld de,(filcnt) ; Get file counter ld a,e ; Subtract de-(hl) sub (hl) inc hl ; <<-- now (hl) points to ld a,d ; to temp0+1 !! sbc a,(hl) ret ; Exit The correction is simple; store the hi byte first, decrement the pointer, and store the low byte. The correct code is shown below (this fragment was extracted from Z80DDISK.ZZ0, release 24). ; ; Z80DOS CODE -- CORRECT -- Set last file ; setlf: call tstlf ; Test last file ret C ; No then exit inc de ; Increment last file ld (hl),d ; Save it in temp0 dec hl ld (hl),e ret ; Andd exit ; ; Test last file ; tstlf: ld hl,(temp0) ; Get pointer to last file ld de,(filcnt) ; Get file counter ld a,e ; Subtract filcnt-(temp0) sub (hl) inc hl ld a,d sbc a,(hl) ; Carry means (temp0) > filcnt ret ; Exit I went back to the old SUPRBDOS code to see if this bug could have manifested itself in other derivates, including (shudder) ZRDOS, ZSDOS or ZDDOS. The SUPRBDOS code was correct; so this appears to be a bug localized to NOVADOS. This has been driving me <> for about a month now. Since I've made extensive mods to NovaDOS to support some Z80DOS style datestamping features (notably get/use file datestamps), I wasn't sure if the problem was in NovaDOS itself, or my mods. Now I am! I found it by painstakingly tracing through the reset disk, select disk BDOS call sequence and narrowing down which piece of code was going awry. Wayne Hortensius Canada Remote Systems September 21, 1989 --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #176 ************************************* 24-Sep-89 15:13:14-MDT,7012;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 24 Sep 89 15:00:16 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #177 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 24 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 177 Today's Topics: 1581 Max-81 Format CP/M emulator for unix (2 msgs) Is there a MOUSE in the house ? Kaypro II technical docs North Star materials UUCP for CP/M ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Sep 89 09:06:00 GMT From: jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!dan.copeland@rutgers.edu (DAN COPELAND) Subject: 1581 Max-81 Format There is a slight error in the 1581 MAX-81 format as published my Miklos Gramskezky (in Transactor and in Twin Cities 128) The error is in the DPH block (byte 20) of the drive table. Basically what it involves is having the drive seeking track 80 in a (0-79 track system). The fix is to change byte 20 from 90 to 8c this will restrict the drive to going from 0-79 and not access physical track 81 (which does not exist). I found this and it was driving me nuts after I overfilled disks and had to remove the disk from the drive or do a warmstart (^C) in order to read from that drive again. You will loose 6K when you do a show command but that 6k wasn't really there anyways. I sort of figured this when some disk utilities were showing 81 tracks @ 1024 bytes per sector and I knew it should only read 80 tracks.. SHOW [DRIVE] didn't show this (and now reports 79 tracks) but 0-79 is 80 tracks in my thinking... Any further info needed --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 89 13:50:08 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!compata@uunet.uu.net (David H Close) Subject: CP/M emulator for unix I have run Z80MU under VP/ix under Xenix. It does work! Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas compata@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ Date: 24 Sep 89 08:32:12 GMT From: morris@jade.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Morris) Subject: CP/M emulator for unix (David H Close) writes: >I have run Z80MU under VP/ix under Xenix. It does work! The memory that I have of Z80MU is that it runs on an 8088 and has a ADM-3 "hard wired" in... Is there a version that runs on a V20? I would think that it would run a _lot_ faster - my recolection is that Z80MU ran at about 1-1.3 mhz (equivalent). Also, is there any way it can be modified for a ANSI terminal? And talk to PRN: as if it was LST: ? (I assume that COM1: access or being to "assign" C: to go to C:\CPMSTUF1 and D: to C:\CPMSTUF2 would be too much...) My memories of Z80MU are at least 2 years old, and I only had a chance to play with it for 20 minutes or so. If a newer version is avialable, with added features, please forgive... Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov ICBM: 34.12 N, 118.02 W #Include quote.cute.standard PSTN: 818-447-7052 #Include disclaimer.standard cat flames.all > /dev/null ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 22:52:18 -0700 From: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Just boot it.) Subject: Is there a MOUSE in the house ? MOUSE is a stack-oriented, interactive language for Z-80s under CP/M. Since it's only a 2K '.COM file it's great for CP/M laptops. You can get it from Royal Oak (I1:) and other places with source and examples. In Grogono's book on the language he also provides a PASCAL implementation. Since it'd be nice to abuse MOUSE code elsewhere -- has anybody ever ported the PASCAL anyplace, and/or cut an interpreter for a different processor ? rcs --- "So I took home this old computer I was going to convert into an old computer..." ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 89 15:34:36 GMT From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!wicat!keithm@apple.com (Keith McQueen) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs In article <1111306@gp.govt.nz> GPWRDCS@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO) writes: >... anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? I believe I have an SBASIC manual stashed away somewhere. Unfortunatly, eveything is in storage until my house gets finished sometime next month. Give me a call and I will see if I can help. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Keith McQueen, Wicat Systems Inc. , (801)224-6605 | My opinions are | | N7HMF @ NV7V (84058), 147.34+, 449.675- | all mine... | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 89 23:25:00 GMT From: jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!alan.latta@rutgers.edu (ALAN LATTA) Subject: North Star materials Any North Star Horizon users left out there? I sold mine after 9 years of hard use, but I still have software, manuals, used disks, and user group newsletters available--FREE (but you pay shipping): . North Star DOS 5.1, 5.2 Power! and other utilities (NS and CP/M) Autoscribe (primitive word processor) Benchmark (more modern word processor) Magic Typewriter (very primitive data base program) Modem 712 and Anderson AMODEM (very nice little comm program) All relevant manuals Approx. 150 used (but usable) 10-sector, hard-sectored diskettes (mostly 3M) Several years' worth of newsletters from INSUA and NSCS, the two premier North Star user groups. . If interested, leave a message for me in the Main conference. Alan Latta --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 89 04:25:16 GMT From: ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@decvax.dec.com (David Goodenough) Subject: UUCP for CP/M Well, there was a bit of chat about it a while ago: getting UUCP up and going under CP/M. After much testing by myself and my beta testers [1], I am reasonably sure there isn't too much wrong with V2.0h. I have therefore released it, you can get copies from the rna server here at lakart. /send index to will get the index of what's there, if contained in mail addressed to rna@lakart.UUCP. If you just want to get the files, you'll need uucp and zsm for sure, and qtpatch may help with patching for your system. Although this is available at lakart, please direct any related mail to the addresses below, since that is my CP/M machine at home. [1] My thanks to Dave Goodman, Bill Swan, and Jeff Wieland -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+ ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #177 ************************************* 26-Sep-89 00:19:52-MDT,6291;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 26-Sep-89 00:14:57 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 00:14:57 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #178 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 26 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 178 Today's Topics: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 users only - BIOS bug Kaypro II technical docs UUCP for CP/M (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Sep 89 16:31:09 GMT From: sumax!amc-gw!sigma!flash!bill@beaver.cs.washington.edu (William Swan) Subject: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 users only - BIOS bug (Has the Alspa mailing list actually expired? I got no answer...) While checking out Dave Goodenough's CP/M UUCP, I uncovered a bug in the Alspa ACI-1&2 BIOS that apparently goes all the way back to the early Alspaugh Engineering days (i.e., it's not *my* fault :-). As I have been afflicted with various symptoms of this bug over the years, usually chalking it up to the particular applications I was running, I figure it worthwhile to share with other Alspa users on the net (and off, but I know only one in that category). The symptom, in general, is that an application running from one drive fails to find all the files on another drive specified by a wildcard. I have seen this with the above UUCP, with SHAR.COM, and a CP/M make. For some reason I have not seen this with Alspa's D.COM. The problem is caused by the BIOS density (disk format) routines use of the 128-byte scratch directory buffer (DIRBF) as a scratch buffer for reading track 0, sector 1, to determine the disk format encoded therein at byte 7FH. This causes the directory buffer to be clobbered between search-first and search-next BDOS calls, and any matching but unfound file entries in the buffer at that time will not be found. Two fixes are possible. The first is to create a separate 128-byte buffer for the "density" routines, so that only the BDOS uses DIRBF. The second is a re-write of the density routines such that it is not necessary to actually read the data into memory. (The Alspa BIOS is so tight that I preferred the second.) Rather than list that change here, I will e-mail the revised BIOS to anybody who requests a copy. (Note: I have done a *lot* of work on the BIOS - it is at rev 3.7 now, up from the last ACI v3.0, and accomodates P2DOS and ZCPR3 among other things.) -- Bill Swan entropy.ms.washington.edu!sigma!bill Send postal address for info: Innocent but in prison in Washington State for 13.5 years: Ms. Debbie Runyan: incarcerated 01/1989, scheduled release 07/2002. In now: 0 years, 8 months, 0 weeks, 5 days. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 14:46:44 GMT From: murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs@uunet.uu.net (Don Stokes, GPO) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs Hi All. I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this info on hand, or know of a good source? Also, the SBASIC manual was parted from the machine when I got it (everything else seemed to be there, ie MBASIC [yuck!], the Perfect suite etc) - anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? Don Stokes / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand___________don@gp.govt.nz________ A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point when you can't think any more. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 14:04:24 GMT From: sndcsl.dec.com!smith@decwrl.dec.com (Willie Smith 226-6121 25-Sep-1989 1003) Subject: UUCP for CP/M From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) Subject: UUCP for CP/M Well, there was a bit of chat about it a while ago: getting UUCP up and going under CP/M. After much testing by myself and my beta testers [1], I am reasonably sure there isn't too much wrong with V2.0h. I have therefore released it, you can get copies from the rna server here at lakart. /send index to will get the index of what's there, if contained in mail addressed to rna@lakart.UUCP. If you just want to get the files, you'll need uucp and zsm for sure, and qtpatch may help with patching for your system. Although this is available at lakart, please direct any related mail to the addresses below, since that is my CP/M machine at home. [1] My thanks to Dave Goodman, Bill Swan, and Jeff Wieland -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+ ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 14:21:10 GMT From: sndcsl.dec.com!smith@decwrl.dec.com (Willie Smith 226-6121 25-Sep-1989 1004) Subject: UUCP for CP/M OOPS! Please disregard the previous copy of the original posting I echoed to the net. Anyway: David Goodenough just got UUCP for CP/M working, which sounds like a great idea, and one I'd really like to get fired up at home! However.... >/send index to > >will get the index of what's there, if contained in mail addressed to >rna@lakart.UUCP. If you just want to get the files, you'll need uucp >and zsm for sure, and qtpatch may help with patching for your system. Umm, how do I get UUCP if I don't have it in the first place, and I don't even have access to a UUCP machine that I could then KERMIT the files home with? Also, what's ZSM (an assembler?), and what kinds of patches do I need to make to my system to get this running? Willie Smith w_smith@wookie.dec.com w_smith%wookie.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com {Usenet!Backbone}!decwrl!wookie.dec.com!w_smith [".dec.com" may be replaced by ".enet.dec.com" in some or all of the above] ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #178 ************************************* 27-Sep-89 18:41:52-MDT,6326;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 27-Sep-89 18:32:05 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 18:32:04 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #179 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 27 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 179 Today's Topics: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 BIOS bug, NZCOM, ZSDOS Lonely Eagle Need VT100 emulator for Digilog S-1000 UUCP for CP/Mex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 12:48:44 PDT From: Bridger Mitchell Subject: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 BIOS bug, NZCOM, ZSDOS In INFO-CPM Digest, Tue, 26 Sep 89, Volume 89 : Issue 178 Bill Swan reports: >The symptom, in general, is that an application running from one drive >fails to find all the files on another drive specified by a wildcard. I >have seen this with the above UUCP, with SHAR.COM, and a CP/M make. For >some reason I have not seen this with Alspa's D.COM. > >The problem is caused by the BIOS density (disk format) routines use of >the 128-byte scratch directory buffer (DIRBF) as a scratch buffer for >reading track 0, sector 1, to determine the disk format encoded therein >at byte 7FH. > >This causes the directory buffer to be clobbered between search-first and >search-next BDOS calls, and any matching but unfound file entries in the >buffer at that time will not be found. > The BIOS drive-select specification for CP/M 2.2 was not fully documented in early Digital Research publications and may have contributed to the bug you have found. In general, the BIOS should determine density/sides/format of a disk only when the BIOS select-disk routine is called with a "new mount" parameter (E register bit 0 value of 0). I believe the correct "fix" is the following: The relevant parameters should then be stored in a data structure for that logical drive and those values used until the drive is again selected with a new mount indication. From your description is sounds as if the BIOS is going through the code to physically determine the format *each time* the drive is selected and is not the current drive. The BDOS keeps track of whether a drive has been logged in. On the first use of a drive that is not yet logged in, it sets E bit 0 to 0. Thereafter, E bit 0 is 1, until the drive is "logged out", by a function 13 or 37. In your example, suppose you have just warmbooted, so that A: is the current drive, and assume the application is searching B: *with an explicit drive indicator in the fcb*. The BDOS will select drive B: as a new mount as part of the search-first function, read the first directory sector to the directory buffer, and then re-select A: before returning to the application. Each search-next function will select B: with an old mount parameter, return the sector containing the next directory entry (reading the disk if necessary) to the directory buffer, and then reselect A:. If instead of an explicit drive value in the fcb, the application first uses a BDOS drive select function to log in B:, the BDOS will leave drive B: selected on each search first/next call. Since the selected drive is not changing between search calls, the Alspa BIOS won't be attempting to determine format and presumably "Alspa's D.COM" will return the correct directory sectors. Bill also remarks: >(Note: I have done a *lot* of work on the BIOS - it is at rev 3.7 now, up >from the last ACI v3.0, and accomodates P2DOS and ZCPR3 among other things.) NZCOM -- the most recent version 3.4 of the ZCPR system, installs automatically and requires no additions or modifications to a standard BIOS. It has many, many advantages over earlier versions, including allowing the user to switch dynamically to a "tiny" version that requires only 0.25 K. ZSDOS is a replacement for the Digital Research BDOS that is distantly descended from P2DOS. It integrates DateStamping, public filetypes, internal search path, fast fixed-disk relogging, and a host of other excellent features. NZCOM and ZSDOS run on standard Z80 CP/M 2.2 systems of all types, require no assembly or BIOS modifications, and come with menu-driven installation and configuration tools. They should be fully compatible with a corrected version of the Alspa BIOS. -- bridger ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 89 00:26:14 GMT From: hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!mark@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Turner) Subject: Lonely Eagle I have an Eagle IIe gathering dust in the garage. Anyone want it? It came with Eagle's word processor and spreadsheet programs, and I've got WordStar, dBASE II and Turbo Pascal for it also. If I can't get rid of it, it might come in handy as a terminal if I could find a communications/emulation program. Anyone know of one? Mark Turner, janitor, HP Circuit Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 89 16:24:11 GMT From: tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!scotty.dccs.upenn.edu!tony@mimsy.umd.edu (Anthony Olejnik) Subject: Need VT100 emulator for Digilog S-1000 Hi, I just obtained a DIGILOG S-1000 CPM system. I would like to use this system as a vt100 terminal emulator. I have KERMIT-80 for it. But since its not a popular system, I could only get the 'dumb' terminal emulation to work. Can anyone help me located a VT100 emulator for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --tony ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 89 23:14:46 GMT From: deimos.cis.ksu.edu!ceres!wtr@uunet.uu.net Subject: UUCP for CP/Mex Willie Smith asked about obtaining the UUCP software from lakart. If this information is available, please post it for the rest of us. This sounds interesting and useful. I have mechanisms available to get from our 780 on Internet to several CP/M formats (both 8 & 5) if someone gets really stuck for a way to get a copy... Bill Robison SYSWTR@IOWASP.PHYSICS.UIOWA.EDU ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #179 ************************************* 30-Sep-89 03:05:55-MDT,4802;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 30-Sep-89 02:59:14 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 30 Sep 89 02:59:14 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #180 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 30 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 180 Today's Topics: Dynabyte Monarch boot disk and manuals Osborne users? rna server at lakart (was Re: UUCP for CP/M) UUCP for CP/Mex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Sep 89 04:30:24 GMT From: oliveb!amdahl!pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@apple.com (Ian R. Justman) Subject: Dynabyte Monarch boot disk and manuals The header says all. This is not the machine I have, but a machine a friend of mine acquired not too long ago. -- Home: Ian Justman |UUCP: |"One of the few 6612 Whitsett Drive | |die-hard CP/M North Highlands, CA 95660| pacbell!sactoh0!ianj |addicts left on this (916) 344-5360 | |planet" ------------------------------ Date: 30 Sep 89 03:03:41 GMT From: bane@mimsy.umd.edu (John R. Bane) Subject: Osborne users? I have a relative who was recently talked into buying an Osborne, and is now in search of manuals, software, and advice (I'd normally advise another machine, but they didn't ask me when they bought it). Anybody out there use one of these, or know anyone who does? Please respond by mail, as I don't normally read this newsgroup. Thanks! Bob Bane (bane@mimsy.umd.edu, ..!uunet!mimsy!bane) -- ARPAnet: bane@mimsy.umd.edu UUCP:...umcp-cs!bane ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 89 15:38:16 GMT From: spdcc!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (David Goodenough) Subject: rna server at lakart (was Re: UUCP for CP/M) wtr@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu (Bill Robison) says: > Willie Smith asked about obtaining the UUCP software from lakart. > If this information is available, please post it for the rest of > us. This sounds interesting and useful. I have mechanisms available > to get from our 780 on Internet to several CP/M formats (both 8 & 5) > if someone gets really stuck for a way to get a copy... The server's address is rna@lakart.uucp - for routes into lakart see my .sig file below. The generic form for a request is: /send whatever to wherever the '/send' and 'to' must be present, and in the places shown, and with no other words added in. The server uses an awk script to pull request lines out, and the format has got to be an exact match so saying /send index won't get anything, since the 'to' and the address are missing. whatever is the file you want, I'd suggest starting with help and index. wherever is your address, and you should note the following: 1. Internet addresses can be handled as is, so if Bill Robison wanted help he'd say: /send help to wtr@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu Note that lakart will route automatically to BITNET, so if you're at a bitnet site: /send index to fred@system.bitnet is all it takes. 2. UUCP addresses for sites in the map can be given as: site!user or user@site.uucp so if I wanted to send stuff to pallio (my CP/M machine at home) I could say: /send index to pallio!dg /send help to dg@pallio.uucp 3. UUCP addresses for sites _NOT_ in the map must be given as a bang path from a backbone / other site that _IS_ in the maps, so if pallio talked to doofus, but doofus wasn't in the maps I'd have to say: /send index to pallio!doofus!john_doe Any questions drop me a line here. BTW, I "audit" all requests, and try to sort out bad ones (i.e. ones that the server can't grok). By far and away the worst "offence" is people who say: /send help without an address. That address is important!! -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+ ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 89 16:51:15 GMT From: mcsun!unido!altger!snoopy@uunet.uu.net (Mathias Niemz) Subject: UUCP for CP/Mex I'm interested too in a uucp for my bbs on a Altos 580. Can someone send it me via altger ? -- uucp: ...!pyramid!netmbx!altger!snoopy or ...!uunet!altnet!altger!snoopy Snailmail: Mathias Niemz, Preussenallee 23, D-1000 Berlin 19 Phone (Voice !) D-030 305 50 60 Fax (on vacancy only !): 49 5121 15405 Datex-P: (0262)44 3000 90345 (no uucp yet) E-Mail: GEO1:M.Niemz ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #180 ************************************* 4-Sep-89 16:40:02-MDT,3217;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 4-Sep-89 16:14:09 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 89 16:14:08 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #171 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 4 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 171 Today's Topics: Current version of ZSM Plu*Perfect Systems and TurboROM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Aug 89 18:44:28 GMT From: ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@decvax.dec.com (David Goodenough) Subject: Current version of ZSM ZSM V2.3 _IS_ the "current" version of ZSM. It's been stable and frozen for about two years now, although as time permits I will start to work on V2.4 - there are a couple of enhancements that need to go in. However if you've got a V2.3 (available from SIMTEL20 or rna@lakart.uucp) you're about as up to date as it's possible to be. For the gentleman at the University of Hawaii who wanted my address, ask tbopp there (Tom Bopp) what he's using to reach me, alternatively try one of the below. _DON'T_ reply to this: it'll wind up on lakart (the UNIX machine at work). Send it to pallio, which is my machine at home. -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Aug 89 13:45:43 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Plu*Perfect Systems and TurboROM Bill Swan asked: "Be that as it may - the Kaypro in question is vanilla, so where can I get a 'TurboROM' or 'KROM', and how much is *that*? Also, do you have an address for Plu*Perfect?" First for the address of Plu*Perfect: Plu*Perfect Systems 410 23rd Street Santa Monica, CA 90402 213-393-6105 (evenings) The TurboROM, developed by Plu*Perfect, is available from Advent at the following address: Advent Products 3154-F LaPalma Avenue Anaheim, CA 92806 714-630-0446 Advent specializes in Kaypro computer add-ons of various sorts. I believe that the TurboROM costs about $60 and, from what I have heard from owners, it is well worth the price: much faster and more flexible disk operations and other improvements in the operation of the computer. I am less sure of the K-ROM. I believe that is the modified Kaypro ROM offered by the publishers of MicroCornucopia magazine. My feeling is that the TurboROM offers a wider range of features and support. For example, Plu*Perfect sells a program called Multicopy that is like Uniform and allows the TurboROM-equipped Kaypro to handle many CP/M disk formats as native formats and to work with amazing speed. Bridger Mitchell, the principal of Plu*Perfect, is a regular reader and contributor to this newsgroup, but the current rules prohibit him from promoting his own products. I'm sure he will be happy to answer any technical questions, however. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #171 ************************************* 8-Sep-89 17:02:29-MDT,6551;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 8-Sep-89 16:53:07 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 16:53:07 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #172 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 8 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 172 Today's Topics: Dynabyte peripherals/manuals MP/M Sanyo MBC-3000 Help Needed TATUNG TP2000 user wanted Televideo 802 (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Sep 89 00:42:54 GMT From: deimos.cis.ksu.edu!cveg!cseg!bbs00052@uunet.uu.net (Albert Crosby) Subject: Dynabyte peripherals/manuals o I need some help from someone out there with a Philips P2000c computer. I bought it new 3 years ago, and I've got a couple of difficulties. First, I've got some power supply problems. The system refuses totart with h the power supply connector attached. If I unhook the lines from the power supply to the computer (inside the case), it will start up OK after the power supply is 'warmed up'. Anyone got any ideas or a source for parts, schematics, etc? Second, I've never been able to get anything from the serial communications port. I can use the printer port, but the comm port doesn't seem to do anything. Does anyone know the pinouts, voltage levels, Z80 portsm etc. that I need to use the port? My mnachine also has a 8086 CoPower board with 512k of memory. Does any one k Sorry about the format of this article. I'm sending it from a BBS at the U of Arkansas, and we just got the ability to post articles. There's no info any where for us about using the editor! Does anyone know what the latest version of the Terminal ROM and Preliminary bootstrap for MS-DOS on this machine is? And if there has been an upgrade since I bought mine, where can I get it? Thanks in advance. Albert Crosby :-) (Please post responses to this group!) or write at Route 1 Box 400F Fayetteville, AR 72701 U S A ------------------------------ Date: 6 Sep 89 01:22:06 GMT From: pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ian R. Justman) Subject: MP/M Can anyone out there recommend any good reference works on MP/M? Thanks in advance. -- Home: Ian Justman |UUCP: |"One of the few 6612 Whitsett Drive | |die-hard CP/M North Highlands, CA 95660| pacbell!sactoh0!ianj |addicts left on this (916) 344-5360 | |planet" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 11:21:11 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Sanyo MBC-3000 Help Needed My brother's Sanyo MBC-3000 (8" drives) system just failed again, and it does not seem to be worthwhile to spend another couple of hundred dollars to get the boards replaced. Debugging is impossible with that machine because of the asynchronous, dual-processor architecture. Besides, the performance was terrible because of the way that architecture was implemented. The problem is that some important data is stored on double-sided, double-density diskettes in the unknown Sanyo format. I tried reading them with an ATR-8000, which is pretty good at identifying and accepting various 8" formats, but it refuses to read them. Does anyone out there have (or know of someone who has) an MBC-3000? In return for help in converting the data on the diskettes to IBM SSSD standard format I would be willing to send them some of the hardware (such as the PC board or boards) to keep as spares for when their machine dies. I would also entertain any offers for the purchase of this hardware (in case someone wants a couple of 8" DSDD disk drives, a good power supply, a monitor, etc.). If you want to make an offer, you had best be in the greater Boston area. What the MBC-3000 lacks in software, it makes up in hardware. It is a beautifully put-together machine that used plenty of metal. In short, it weighs a ton! I would not even attempt to ship it. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: 6 Sep 89 23:41:54 GMT From: mcsun!unido!cosmo2!fifi%cosmo.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (A.F.Zinser) Subject: TATUNG TP2000 user wanted It's really important! I7ve got a TATUNG TP2000 *without* any paperware, descriptions,.... Who knows, where I could get it? Better: Who owns anything about it - perhaps brainware... Who can help us? A.Zinser +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ _ ! ! Axel F. Zinser (_!_) (_!_) ...uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!fifi | ! Hannover, W-Germany ! ! fifi@cosmo.UUCP ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Sep 89 11:21:24 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Televideo 802 Can anyone tell me how to configure the serial ports (and other hardware features) of the Televideo 802 computer. I acquired one second hand, but the owner had lost the manual and, I believe, the diskette containing hardware-specific utilities. I have only the Digital Research CP/M diskette and diskettes with some application programs (WordStar, The Word Plus, and so on). The most immediate problem is getting a serial printer working. From somewhere I had gotten a program called TVSET. I don't know if it works on my Televideo 803, but it does work nicely on the 802 and looks as though that is the machine it was intended for (it can define a string for the 25th line of the display -- which the 802 has but of which there is no sign on the 803). If someone has any other utilities that came with the machine, I would appreciate it if I could get a copy. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: 7 Sep 89 17:25:25 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!Michael_Dennis_Evenson@uunet.uu.net Subject: Televideo 802 Give me a call at 214-641-7900 and I will send you a manual. I have quite a few 802's of my own, and really only need 1 manual. Mike Evenson ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #172 ************************************* 11-Sep-89 20:07:06-MDT,7562;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 20:00:13 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #173 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 11 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 173 Today's Topics: BBS program Looking for Apple CP/M software North Star Advantage. Please report SIMTEL20 ftp problems to ACTION tatung tp2000 *HELP NEEDED* z280 hardware problem (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Sep 89 19:49:10 GMT From: mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!mikes@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mike Squires) Subject: BBS program In article <903DISPATCH@NCSUVM> DISPATCH@NCSUVM.BITNET writes: >Does anyone know of a multi-sig BBS program that will run on a Kaypro 4 with no > HD (I'm looking towards a Message only board, no D/L's). Please reply in this > SIG. The original version of Citadel runs on a Kaypro. It supports something like 32 or 64 "rooms"; each room has a message system. There is also a central mail facility. A room may have a directory and have file up/downloads. I believe that the last version that operated under CP/M that I know about was 2.15. It was available from the C User's Group (they advertise in programming oriented mags). It's also on my system in the UNaXcess BBS at 814 337 3159 (TB+) or 814 337 0348 (1200/2400). Michael L. Squires uucp: {necntc,cwjcc,hoptoad}!ncoast!peng!sir-alan!mikes 752 Chestnut Street ..!{pitt,uunet!convex,uunet}!sir-alan!mikes Meadville, PA 16335 BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) Voice: 814 337 5528 MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Data: 814 337 0348 Internet: sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net login of "ubbs" for BBS sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu ------------------------------ Date: 11 Sep 89 03:20:29 GMT From: asuvax!hrc!xroads!cc@handies.ucar.edu (Dan McGuirk) Subject: Looking for Apple CP/M software I am looking for Apple CP/M software. I have an ALS CP/M card which runs CP/M 3.0. I particularly want/need a good term program and a C compiler. I also need some way to convert files from ProDOS to CP/M format because I obviously can't download straight into CP/M right now..(and now you know why I need the term program..) Umm, yeah, well, anyway, please reply by mail. I will summarize if there are any requests. [Please note: I cannot FTP.] cc@xroads.UUCP -- \ / C r o s s r o a d s C o m m u n i c a t i o n s /\ (602) 941-2005 300|1200 Baud 24 hrs/day / \ hplabs!hp-sdd!crash!xroads!cc ------------------------------ Date: 9 Sep 89 18:55:47 GMT From: van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a567@uunet.uu.net (Bruce Peltzer) Subject: North Star Advantage. Here's the scenario... Dusting out my closet, I have come across a pair of North Star Advantages. One works fine, the other has a dead screen (tube is ok, it might be the flyback) but, the CP/M system master disk is dead. I'd like to get at least one of these things working again so here is the question... Does anyone have a copy of the original North Star GCP/M that they would be willing to part with for a reasonable price? Please? Now for the other stuff... Is there a way to make these things work with soft sectored disks? Hard sectored disks are getting hard to come by these days. Any help would be appreciated. -bp-. ---------------------------------------------------------------- THIS SPACE FOR LEASE ---------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: a567@mindlink.UUCP GEnie: b.peltzer2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 16:49 MDT From: Keith Petersen Subject: Please report SIMTEL20 ftp problems to ACTION I received the following email today from an Internet FTP user: > I have been trying to get stuff from simtel for the past few days. > Except on one occasion, I have always been disconnected in the middle > of a file transfer. This happens more frequently with big files. It > happens only with simtel, not with other anonymous FTP sites. If this is widespread we need to know about it. Please send reports of FTP problems to: ACTION@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Please do not send them to me. I maintain the archives, not the SIMTEL20 network software. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74] Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 89 21:52:12 GMT From: mcsun!unido!cosmo2!fifi%cosmo.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (A.F.Zinser) Subject: tatung tp2000 *HELP NEEDED* Who in heaven (or on earth) owns a tatung tp2000? On my last request some days or few weeks ago I've got *no* response - aren't there anymore built (than our two ones)? It's really important! thanks in advance, a.zinser +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ _ ! ! Axel F. Zinser (_!_) (_!_) ...uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!fifi | ! Hannover, W-Germany ! ! fifi@cosmo.UUCP ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 8 Sep 89 21:47:59 GMT From: mcsun!unido!cosmo2!fifi%cosmo.UUCP@uunet.uu.net (A.F.Zinser) Subject: z280 hardware problem We've still problems... Who has experience driving memory (dram) in a z280-system using the z280-bus-mode (*not* z80 bus mode)? thanks in advance, a.zinser +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ _ ! ! Axel F. Zinser (_!_) (_!_) ...uunet!mcvax!unido!cosmo!fifi | ! Hannover, W-Germany ! ! fifi@cosmo.UUCP ! ! ! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: 11 Sep 89 17:47:28 GMT From: oliveb!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun@apple.com (Doug Braun ~) Subject: z280 hardware problem I, too would like to hear about hooking up DRAMS to a Z280. I currently have one using 128K of static RAM (32Kx8 chips) in 16-bit z280 mode, with burst mode working on a 5-HHz bus. I would like to go to a 10-MHz bus, but I would need to use static-column DRAMs (256Kx4 parts) to get enough speed. This system currently runs CP/M 3 with a 20 meg SCSI hard disk very well. If you are thinking of building a Z280 system, get in touch with me, and I can relate my experiences (and circuit diagrams, etc.) Doug Braun Intel Corp CAD 408 765-4279 / decwrl \ | hplabs | -| oliveb |- !intelca!mipos3!cadev4!dbraun | amd | \ qantel / ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #173 ************************************* 15-Sep-89 13:57:06-MDT,4059;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 15-Sep-89 13:54:00 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 13:53:58 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #174 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 15 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 174 Today's Topics: BBS program Kaypro II technical docs MEX using MP/M North Star Advantage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 12 Sep 89 03:20:57 GMT From: ogccse!blake!callisto@ucsd.edu (Finn) Subject: BBS program In regards to 8 bit citadels: versions of the 2.10 series tend to be unstable and buggy. The people who first distributed the code (CRT & BAK) created an improved version caller 2.20. Things being things, the 2.10 seems to be the version that got distributed far and wide. If you are actually going to try to put a Citadle online, mail me and I'll be glad to mail you back 220 source code, which has the following improvements; Runs (will stay up for extended periods without 'fixing' Readable source code uses BDS-C 1.5 will run on almost any cp/m system with minimal patching. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 89 12:01:09 GMT From: murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs@uunet.uu.net (Don Stokes, GPO) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs Hi All. I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this info on hand, or know of a good source? Also, the SBASIC manual was parted from the machine when I got it (everything else seemed to be there, ie MBASIC [yuck!], the Perfect suite etc) - anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? Don Stokes / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand___________don@gp.govt.nz________ A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point when you can't think any more. ------------------------------ Date: 15 Sep 89 03:06:02 GMT From: pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ian R. Justman) Subject: MEX using MP/M Has anyone used MEX with MP/M? I'm currently doing it, but I can't do any other tasks otherwise I will lose characters. I'll probably have to write some sort of interrupt driven routine, but MP/M needs interrupts in order to process calls from other consoles. Any help on this matter will be definitely appreciated. -- Home: Ian Justman |UUCP: |"One of the few 6612 Whitsett Drive | |die-hard CP/M North Highlands, CA 95660| pacbell!sactoh0!ianj |addicts left on this (916) 344-5360 | |planet" ------------------------------ Date: 12 Sep 89 21:26:34 GMT From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!wicat!keithm@ucsd.edu (Keith McQueen) Subject: North Star Advantage. In article <488@mindlink.UUCP> a567@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Peltzer) writes about North Star Advantage boot disks. I have an advantage with GCP/M boot disks and other miscellaneous software but the machine is at my sister's house about 50 miles north of here. Not terribly convenient. Anyway, if you don't find one anywhere else, contact me at (801)224-6605 and I'll see what I can do. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Keith McQueen, Wicat Systems Inc. , (801)224-6605 | My opinions are | | N7HMF @ NV7V (84058), 147.34+, 449.675- | all mine... | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #174 ************************************* 20-Sep-89 01:22:43-MDT,5036;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 20-Sep-89 01:14:53 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 89 01:14:53 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #175 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 20 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 175 Today's Topics: Amstrad PCW SIG Help with UNSIT Kaypro II technical docs MEX using MP/M QTERM and C128 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 89 09:30:42 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: Amstrad PCW SIG For those with an interest in Amstrad computers, here is the address for a support group called the Amstrad PCW SIG: Amstrad PCW SIG 2751 Reche Canyon Road #93 Colton, CA 92324 Al Warsh, the director of the group, publishes a regular newsletter, the frequency of which I forget. Neither the newsletter nor the members of the group are particularly technically inclined, but if you have an Amstrad, this is the only place I know of in the United States to which you can turn for any support. ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 03:51:00 GMT From: mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!alex.burger@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (ALEX BURGER) Subject: Help with UNSIT Has anyone been able to make UNSIT unpack any of the SIT files made by the Macintosh? I didn't have too much trouble with UNPIT, but UNSIT just doesn't seem to work properly. I haven't tried it for quite a while, but from what I remember, it always gave file errors about the header... If ANYONE has been able to UNSIT ANYTHING, could you please tell me how you did it? I imagine that all you need to type is: UNSIT filename Is there something I'm missing out? If it help, I'm using a Commodore 128. Alex Burger - Canada Remote Systems --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ Date: 19 Sep 89 04:47:28 GMT From: mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!mikes@purdue.edu (Mike Squires) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs In article <306@gp.govt.nz> GPWRDCS@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO) writes: >Hi All. > >I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, >particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this >info on hand, or know of a good source? > MicroCornucopia magazine specialized in the Kaypro/Big Board/Xerox 820 systems for quite a while. They published schematics, upgrades, etc. Michael L. Squires uucp: {necntc,cwjcc,hoptoad}!ncoast!peng!sir-alan!mikes 752 Chestnut Street ..!{pitt,uunet!convex,uunet}!sir-alan!mikes Meadville, PA 16335 BITNET: mikes%sir-alan@pitt.UUCP (VAX) Voice: 814 337 5528 MIKES AT SIR-ALAN!PITT.UUCP (IBM) Data: 814 337 0348 Internet: sir-alan!mikes@uunet.uu.net login of "ubbs" for BBS sir-alan!mikes@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu ------------------------------ Date: 16 Sep 89 20:19:25 GMT From: ogccse!blake!callisto@ucsd.edu (Finn) Subject: MEX using MP/M In article <1832@sactoh0.UUCP> ianj@sactoh0.UUCP (Ian R. Justman) writes: >Has anyone used MEX with MP/M? I'm currently doing it, but I can't >do any other tasks otherwise I will lose characters. I'll probably >have to write some sort of interrupt driven routine, but MP/M needs >interrupts in order to process calls from other consoles. Any help >on this matter will be definitely appreciated. I used MEX with MP/M on an Altos 580 for quite some time, and found: Mex worked fine up to about 1200 baud, then gave up and lost characters. Sometimes, particularly after using x-modem, a "phase of the moon" type error caused mex to lock up that user when exiting to system. Sometimes the problem could be solved by killing the process from another terminals, and sometimes it was necessary to re-boot the machine. I suspect this resulted from mex writing into the common memory above C000. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 19:53:40 MDT From: Raymond Carter STEWS-NR-AD Subject: QTERM and C128 In the last "Livewire" magazine from GEnie, they mention QTERM as being available. They also mention there is a C-128 overlay. I have downloaded QTERM (from SIMTEL), but can't find the C-128 overlay. If anyone has one, it would be nice to get it up on GEnie and SIMTEL. Please let me know if it is available ( I have looked on GEnie and SIMTEL, and also have a Compuserve account), before I waste time reinventing the wheel!! Much Thanks in advance - QTERM sounds great (using MEX now). ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #175 ************************************* 22-Sep-89 15:06:20-MDT,9801;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 15:00:07 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #176 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 22 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 176 Today's Topics: BASCOM Help Needed CP/M emulator for unix H/Z-19 terminal for sale Installing QTERM 4.1e for Xerox 16/8 Interrups and CP/M on Apple ][ Kaypro II technical docs NOVADOS bug report ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 89 11:44:23 EST From: SAGE@LL.LL.MIT.EDU Subject: BASCOM Help Needed We need to run the Microsoft MBASIC compiler BASCOM. I have the program (I am still looking for LINK, but I think the SLR linker will do), but I cannot locate a manual and do not know the syntax to use. Can anyone help with a quick rundown on the syntax and/or a reference to a published book or article on the subject. Thanks. This need, by the way, arose in my capacity as a Boston Computer Society trouble-shooter. Someone's accounting package, written in Microsoft BASIC, suddenly stopped working properly. The user has the source code and, upon examining it, discovered an error in some date processing steps. Everything was fine until this month. He thinks he has the fix but must now recompile the code. -- Jay Sage, SAGE @ LL.LL.MIT.EDU, 617-981-4704 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Sep 89 01:59:19 GMT From: sunybcs!fredonia!will@rutgers.edu (James A. Will) Subject: CP/M emulator for unix Does a CP/M emulator exist for unix? Where might I look to answer this question? Thanks Jim UUCP: ...!{watmath,boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!fredonia!will ------------------------------ Date: 21 Sep 89 15:13:21 GMT From: aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!aerosmith.rutgers.edu!moskowit@rutgers.edu (Len Moskowitz) Subject: H/Z-19 terminal for sale My 12-year old CP/M homebuilt computer just died. If anyone is interested in buying (cheap!) a working H/Z-19 terminal or a dual 8" SSDD (Siemens) disk drive box, drop me e-mail. The computer itself has a Morrow motherboard, North Star CPU and 16K RAM boards, Morrow DJDMA disk controller, Ithaca Intersystems 64k and I/O boards, and a Sunny power supply. At least one (who knows which one) of the boards is dead. If you're interested in a piece or all of this box, drop me a line. Len Moskowitz ...!rutgers!paul!moskowit moskowitz@bendix.com (CSnet) moskowitz%bendix.com@relay.cs.net (ARPAnet) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 11:17:11 -0400 From: olmiller@xibm.asd.contel.com (Otto Miller) Subject: Installing QTERM 4.1e for Xerox 16/8 I ftp'd QTERM 4.1e from simtel20. Included in the library is a patch file for the Xerox 16/8 (QTP-XER2.ASM). ASM on my machine gags on the third (maybe the fourth) 'equ' at the beginning of the file. I started to convert the .ASM to a .Z as shown in the generic example (the name escapes me now) in the library, but what a pain in the back(side). Is there someone that has a .Z for the above, or, can someone enlighten me as to potential, real, perceived problems with the .ASM or my ASM? Thanks in advance, for any assistance! Also, please e-mail me directly in that we just moved and our postmaster has been overwhelmed, so I am not on regular distribution of group! Either 'olmiller@xibm.asd.contel.com' or 'olmiller@europa.asd.contel.com' should get here. Thanks Again! Otto L. Miller Contel Federal Systems Sector Applied Systems Division 15000 Conference Center Drive PO Box 10814 Chantilly, VA 22021-3808 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Sep 89 01:25:28 GMT From: hpda!athertn!paul@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Sander) Subject: Interrups and CP/M on Apple ][ I have a "CP/M Card" made by Advanced Logic Systems installed slot 4 in my Apple ][ Plus, and a Super Serial Card installed in slot 2. I'd like to run a telecommunication program under DOS or ProDOS with the SSC's interrupts enabled, but find that turning on interrupts prevents CP/M from booting. My guess is that the SSC is generating an inturrupt either when reset or when CP/M initializes it somehow. Does anyone know of a way to make the two coexist, short of soldering on a toggle switch in parallel with the DIP switch (for my particular system, it's too much of a pain to unstack all the stuff that lives on top of the Apple, open it, take the card out, flip the switch, and reassemble). I do not have any source code for the CP/M BIOS or bootup code. Many thanks in advance for the help. -- Paul Sander (408) 734-9822 | If a machine is powerful enough paul@Atherton.COM | to have a DWIM button, why bother {decwrl,sun,pyramid}!athertn!paul | with the button? -- Eric Black ------------------------------ Date: 20 Sep 89 12:50:29 GMT From: uhccux!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Don Stokes, GPO) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs Hi All. I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this info on hand, or know of a good source? Also, the SBASIC manual was parted from the machine when I got it (everything else seemed to be there, ie MBASIC [yuck!], the Perfect suite etc) - anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? Don Stokes / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand___________don@gp.govt.nz________ A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point when you can't think any more. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 89 02:23:00 GMT From: mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!wayne.hortensiu@uunet.uu.net (WAYNE HORTENSIU) Subject: NOVADOS bug report There is a serious bug in Novados release H (and possibly earlier releases as well) that crops up when the number of entries used in your disk's directory becomes a multiple of 256. Symptoms include: all files disappearing that are after then first 256 entries, being able to open files that disappear when you try to close them, and two copies of a file showing up in the directory, one with 0 blocks used. To make matters worse, when the NovaDOS fast boot option was used, the problem would vanish if the directory had fewer then 256 entries used when it was initally logged in at startup. You could add files to your heart's content until you crossed the 512 entry boundary, when half of your files would promptly vanish. The incorrect code, taken from NVDS-2.Z80, is shown below: ; ; NOVADOS CODE -- INCORRECT -- Set last file ; setlf: call tstlf ; Test last file ret c ; No then exit inc de ; Increment last file ld (hl),e ; << Save it in temp0 inc hl ; << -- argh! temp0+1 ld (hl),d ; << & temp0+2 !! ret ; And exit ; ; Test last file ; tstlf: ld hl,(temp0) ; Get pointer to last file ld de,(filcnt) ; Get file counter ld a,e ; Subtract de-(hl) sub (hl) inc hl ; <<-- now (hl) points to ld a,d ; to temp0+1 !! sbc a,(hl) ret ; Exit The correction is simple; store the hi byte first, decrement the pointer, and store the low byte. The correct code is shown below (this fragment was extracted from Z80DDISK.ZZ0, release 24). ; ; Z80DOS CODE -- CORRECT -- Set last file ; setlf: call tstlf ; Test last file ret C ; No then exit inc de ; Increment last file ld (hl),d ; Save it in temp0 dec hl ld (hl),e ret ; Andd exit ; ; Test last file ; tstlf: ld hl,(temp0) ; Get pointer to last file ld de,(filcnt) ; Get file counter ld a,e ; Subtract filcnt-(temp0) sub (hl) inc hl ld a,d sbc a,(hl) ; Carry means (temp0) > filcnt ret ; Exit I went back to the old SUPRBDOS code to see if this bug could have manifested itself in other derivates, including (shudder) ZRDOS, ZSDOS or ZDDOS. The SUPRBDOS code was correct; so this appears to be a bug localized to NOVADOS. This has been driving me <> for about a month now. Since I've made extensive mods to NovaDOS to support some Z80DOS style datestamping features (notably get/use file datestamps), I wasn't sure if the problem was in NovaDOS itself, or my mods. Now I am! I found it by painstakingly tracing through the reset disk, select disk BDOS call sequence and narrowing down which piece of code was going awry. Wayne Hortensius Canada Remote Systems September 21, 1989 --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #176 ************************************* 24-Sep-89 15:13:14-MDT,7012;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 24 Sep 89 15:00:16 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #177 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 24 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 177 Today's Topics: 1581 Max-81 Format CP/M emulator for unix (2 msgs) Is there a MOUSE in the house ? Kaypro II technical docs North Star materials UUCP for CP/M ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 23 Sep 89 09:06:00 GMT From: jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!dan.copeland@rutgers.edu (DAN COPELAND) Subject: 1581 Max-81 Format There is a slight error in the 1581 MAX-81 format as published my Miklos Gramskezky (in Transactor and in Twin Cities 128) The error is in the DPH block (byte 20) of the drive table. Basically what it involves is having the drive seeking track 80 in a (0-79 track system). The fix is to change byte 20 from 90 to 8c this will restrict the drive to going from 0-79 and not access physical track 81 (which does not exist). I found this and it was driving me nuts after I overfilled disks and had to remove the disk from the drive or do a warmstart (^C) in order to read from that drive again. You will loose 6K when you do a show command but that 6k wasn't really there anyways. I sort of figured this when some disk utilities were showing 81 tracks @ 1024 bytes per sector and I knew it should only read 80 tracks.. SHOW [DRIVE] didn't show this (and now reports 79 tracks) but 0-79 is 80 tracks in my thinking... Any further info needed --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 89 13:50:08 GMT From: portal!cup.portal.com!compata@uunet.uu.net (David H Close) Subject: CP/M emulator for unix I have run Z80MU under VP/ix under Xenix. It does work! Dave Close, Compata, Arlington, Texas compata@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ Date: 24 Sep 89 08:32:12 GMT From: morris@jade.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Morris) Subject: CP/M emulator for unix (David H Close) writes: >I have run Z80MU under VP/ix under Xenix. It does work! The memory that I have of Z80MU is that it runs on an 8088 and has a ADM-3 "hard wired" in... Is there a version that runs on a V20? I would think that it would run a _lot_ faster - my recolection is that Z80MU ran at about 1-1.3 mhz (equivalent). Also, is there any way it can be modified for a ANSI terminal? And talk to PRN: as if it was LST: ? (I assume that COM1: access or being to "assign" C: to go to C:\CPMSTUF1 and D: to C:\CPMSTUF2 would be too much...) My memories of Z80MU are at least 2 years old, and I only had a chance to play with it for 20 minutes or so. If a newer version is avialable, with added features, please forgive... Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov ICBM: 34.12 N, 118.02 W #Include quote.cute.standard PSTN: 818-447-7052 #Include disclaimer.standard cat flames.all > /dev/null ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 89 22:52:18 -0700 From: secrist@msdsws.enet.dec.com (Just boot it.) Subject: Is there a MOUSE in the house ? MOUSE is a stack-oriented, interactive language for Z-80s under CP/M. Since it's only a 2K '.COM file it's great for CP/M laptops. You can get it from Royal Oak (I1:) and other places with source and examples. In Grogono's book on the language he also provides a PASCAL implementation. Since it'd be nice to abuse MOUSE code elsewhere -- has anybody ever ported the PASCAL anyplace, and/or cut an interpreter for a different processor ? rcs --- "So I took home this old computer I was going to convert into an old computer..." ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 89 15:34:36 GMT From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!wicat!keithm@apple.com (Keith McQueen) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs In article <1111306@gp.govt.nz> GPWRDCS@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO) writes: >... anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? I believe I have an SBASIC manual stashed away somewhere. Unfortunatly, eveything is in storage until my house gets finished sometime next month. Give me a call and I will see if I can help. -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | Keith McQueen, Wicat Systems Inc. , (801)224-6605 | My opinions are | | N7HMF @ NV7V (84058), 147.34+, 449.675- | all mine... | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------ Date: 23 Sep 89 23:25:00 GMT From: jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!alan.latta@rutgers.edu (ALAN LATTA) Subject: North Star materials Any North Star Horizon users left out there? I sold mine after 9 years of hard use, but I still have software, manuals, used disks, and user group newsletters available--FREE (but you pay shipping): . North Star DOS 5.1, 5.2 Power! and other utilities (NS and CP/M) Autoscribe (primitive word processor) Benchmark (more modern word processor) Magic Typewriter (very primitive data base program) Modem 712 and Anderson AMODEM (very nice little comm program) All relevant manuals Approx. 150 used (but usable) 10-sector, hard-sectored diskettes (mostly 3M) Several years' worth of newsletters from INSUA and NSCS, the two premier North Star user groups. . If interested, leave a message for me in the Main conference. Alan Latta --- * Via ProDoor 3.1aR ------------------------------ Date: 22 Sep 89 04:25:16 GMT From: ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@decvax.dec.com (David Goodenough) Subject: UUCP for CP/M Well, there was a bit of chat about it a while ago: getting UUCP up and going under CP/M. After much testing by myself and my beta testers [1], I am reasonably sure there isn't too much wrong with V2.0h. I have therefore released it, you can get copies from the rna server here at lakart. /send index to will get the index of what's there, if contained in mail addressed to rna@lakart.UUCP. If you just want to get the files, you'll need uucp and zsm for sure, and qtpatch may help with patching for your system. Although this is available at lakart, please direct any related mail to the addresses below, since that is my CP/M machine at home. [1] My thanks to Dave Goodman, Bill Swan, and Jeff Wieland -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+ ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #177 ************************************* 26-Sep-89 00:19:52-MDT,6291;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 26-Sep-89 00:14:57 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 00:14:57 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #178 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 26 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 178 Today's Topics: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 users only - BIOS bug Kaypro II technical docs UUCP for CP/M (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 Sep 89 16:31:09 GMT From: sumax!amc-gw!sigma!flash!bill@beaver.cs.washington.edu (William Swan) Subject: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 users only - BIOS bug (Has the Alspa mailing list actually expired? I got no answer...) While checking out Dave Goodenough's CP/M UUCP, I uncovered a bug in the Alspa ACI-1&2 BIOS that apparently goes all the way back to the early Alspaugh Engineering days (i.e., it's not *my* fault :-). As I have been afflicted with various symptoms of this bug over the years, usually chalking it up to the particular applications I was running, I figure it worthwhile to share with other Alspa users on the net (and off, but I know only one in that category). The symptom, in general, is that an application running from one drive fails to find all the files on another drive specified by a wildcard. I have seen this with the above UUCP, with SHAR.COM, and a CP/M make. For some reason I have not seen this with Alspa's D.COM. The problem is caused by the BIOS density (disk format) routines use of the 128-byte scratch directory buffer (DIRBF) as a scratch buffer for reading track 0, sector 1, to determine the disk format encoded therein at byte 7FH. This causes the directory buffer to be clobbered between search-first and search-next BDOS calls, and any matching but unfound file entries in the buffer at that time will not be found. Two fixes are possible. The first is to create a separate 128-byte buffer for the "density" routines, so that only the BDOS uses DIRBF. The second is a re-write of the density routines such that it is not necessary to actually read the data into memory. (The Alspa BIOS is so tight that I preferred the second.) Rather than list that change here, I will e-mail the revised BIOS to anybody who requests a copy. (Note: I have done a *lot* of work on the BIOS - it is at rev 3.7 now, up from the last ACI v3.0, and accomodates P2DOS and ZCPR3 among other things.) -- Bill Swan entropy.ms.washington.edu!sigma!bill Send postal address for info: Innocent but in prison in Washington State for 13.5 years: Ms. Debbie Runyan: incarcerated 01/1989, scheduled release 07/2002. In now: 0 years, 8 months, 0 weeks, 5 days. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 14:46:44 GMT From: murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!windy!gpwd!gpwrdcs@uunet.uu.net (Don Stokes, GPO) Subject: Kaypro II technical docs Hi All. I have a Kaypro II, old (1983) model. I'm after some info on the beast, particuarly regarding access to hardware registers. Anyone have this info on hand, or know of a good source? Also, the SBASIC manual was parted from the machine when I got it (everything else seemed to be there, ie MBASIC [yuck!], the Perfect suite etc) - anyone know of a source of SBASIC docs? Don Stokes / / vuwcomp!windy!gpwd!don Systems Programmer /GP/ Government Printing Office PSI%0530147000028::DON __________________/ /__Wellington, New Zealand___________don@gp.govt.nz________ A conclusion is what you've come to when you reach the point when you can't think any more. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 14:04:24 GMT From: sndcsl.dec.com!smith@decwrl.dec.com (Willie Smith 226-6121 25-Sep-1989 1003) Subject: UUCP for CP/M From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) Subject: UUCP for CP/M Well, there was a bit of chat about it a while ago: getting UUCP up and going under CP/M. After much testing by myself and my beta testers [1], I am reasonably sure there isn't too much wrong with V2.0h. I have therefore released it, you can get copies from the rna server here at lakart. /send index to will get the index of what's there, if contained in mail addressed to rna@lakart.UUCP. If you just want to get the files, you'll need uucp and zsm for sure, and qtpatch may help with patching for your system. Although this is available at lakart, please direct any related mail to the addresses below, since that is my CP/M machine at home. [1] My thanks to Dave Goodman, Bill Swan, and Jeff Wieland -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.uucp@cfisun.cfi.com +---+ ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 89 14:21:10 GMT From: sndcsl.dec.com!smith@decwrl.dec.com (Willie Smith 226-6121 25-Sep-1989 1004) Subject: UUCP for CP/M OOPS! Please disregard the previous copy of the original posting I echoed to the net. Anyway: David Goodenough just got UUCP for CP/M working, which sounds like a great idea, and one I'd really like to get fired up at home! However.... >/send index to > >will get the index of what's there, if contained in mail addressed to >rna@lakart.UUCP. If you just want to get the files, you'll need uucp >and zsm for sure, and qtpatch may help with patching for your system. Umm, how do I get UUCP if I don't have it in the first place, and I don't even have access to a UUCP machine that I could then KERMIT the files home with? Also, what's ZSM (an assembler?), and what kinds of patches do I need to make to my system to get this running? Willie Smith w_smith@wookie.dec.com w_smith%wookie.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com {Usenet!Backbone}!decwrl!wookie.dec.com!w_smith [".dec.com" may be replaced by ".enet.dec.com" in some or all of the above] ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #178 ************************************* 27-Sep-89 18:41:52-MDT,6326;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 27-Sep-89 18:32:05 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 18:32:04 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #179 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 27 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 179 Today's Topics: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 BIOS bug, NZCOM, ZSDOS Lonely Eagle Need VT100 emulator for Digilog S-1000 UUCP for CP/Mex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 12:48:44 PDT From: Bridger Mitchell Subject: Alspa Computer ACI-1/2 BIOS bug, NZCOM, ZSDOS In INFO-CPM Digest, Tue, 26 Sep 89, Volume 89 : Issue 178 Bill Swan reports: >The symptom, in general, is that an application running from one drive >fails to find all the files on another drive specified by a wildcard. I >have seen this with the above UUCP, with SHAR.COM, and a CP/M make. For >some reason I have not seen this with Alspa's D.COM. > >The problem is caused by the BIOS density (disk format) routines use of >the 128-byte scratch directory buffer (DIRBF) as a scratch buffer for >reading track 0, sector 1, to determine the disk format encoded therein >at byte 7FH. > >This causes the directory buffer to be clobbered between search-first and >search-next BDOS calls, and any matching but unfound file entries in the >buffer at that time will not be found. > The BIOS drive-select specification for CP/M 2.2 was not fully documented in early Digital Research publications and may have contributed to the bug you have found. In general, the BIOS should determine density/sides/format of a disk only when the BIOS select-disk routine is called with a "new mount" parameter (E register bit 0 value of 0). I believe the correct "fix" is the following: The relevant parameters should then be stored in a data structure for that logical drive and those values used until the drive is again selected with a new mount indication. From your description is sounds as if the BIOS is going through the code to physically determine the format *each time* the drive is selected and is not the current drive. The BDOS keeps track of whether a drive has been logged in. On the first use of a drive that is not yet logged in, it sets E bit 0 to 0. Thereafter, E bit 0 is 1, until the drive is "logged out", by a function 13 or 37. In your example, suppose you have just warmbooted, so that A: is the current drive, and assume the application is searching B: *with an explicit drive indicator in the fcb*. The BDOS will select drive B: as a new mount as part of the search-first function, read the first directory sector to the directory buffer, and then re-select A: before returning to the application. Each search-next function will select B: with an old mount parameter, return the sector containing the next directory entry (reading the disk if necessary) to the directory buffer, and then reselect A:. If instead of an explicit drive value in the fcb, the application first uses a BDOS drive select function to log in B:, the BDOS will leave drive B: selected on each search first/next call. Since the selected drive is not changing between search calls, the Alspa BIOS won't be attempting to determine format and presumably "Alspa's D.COM" will return the correct directory sectors. Bill also remarks: >(Note: I have done a *lot* of work on the BIOS - it is at rev 3.7 now, up >from the last ACI v3.0, and accomodates P2DOS and ZCPR3 among other things.) NZCOM -- the most recent version 3.4 of the ZCPR system, installs automatically and requires no additions or modifications to a standard BIOS. It has many, many advantages over earlier versions, including allowing the user to switch dynamically to a "tiny" version that requires only 0.25 K. ZSDOS is a replacement for the Digital Research BDOS that is distantly descended from P2DOS. It integrates DateStamping, public filetypes, internal search path, fast fixed-disk relogging, and a host of other excellent features. NZCOM and ZSDOS run on standard Z80 CP/M 2.2 systems of all types, require no assembly or BIOS modifications, and come with menu-driven installation and configuration tools. They should be fully compatible with a corrected version of the Alspa BIOS. -- bridger ------------------------------ Date: 27 Sep 89 00:26:14 GMT From: hpda!hpcuhb!hpcilzb!mark@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mark Turner) Subject: Lonely Eagle I have an Eagle IIe gathering dust in the garage. Anyone want it? It came with Eagle's word processor and spreadsheet programs, and I've got WordStar, dBASE II and Turbo Pascal for it also. If I can't get rid of it, it might come in handy as a terminal if I could find a communications/emulation program. Anyone know of one? Mark Turner, janitor, HP Circuit Technology Group ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 89 16:24:11 GMT From: tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!scotty.dccs.upenn.edu!tony@mimsy.umd.edu (Anthony Olejnik) Subject: Need VT100 emulator for Digilog S-1000 Hi, I just obtained a DIGILOG S-1000 CPM system. I would like to use this system as a vt100 terminal emulator. I have KERMIT-80 for it. But since its not a popular system, I could only get the 'dumb' terminal emulation to work. Can anyone help me located a VT100 emulator for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --tony ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 89 23:14:46 GMT From: deimos.cis.ksu.edu!ceres!wtr@uunet.uu.net Subject: UUCP for CP/Mex Willie Smith asked about obtaining the UUCP software from lakart. If this information is available, please post it for the rest of us. This sounds interesting and useful. I have mechanisms available to get from our 780 on Internet to several CP/M formats (both 8 & 5) if someone gets really stuck for a way to get a copy... Bill Robison SYSWTR@IOWASP.PHYSICS.UIOWA.EDU ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #179 ************************************* 30-Sep-89 03:05:55-MDT,4802;000000000000 Mail-From: KPETERSEN created at 30-Sep-89 02:59:14 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 30 Sep 89 02:59:14 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V89 #180 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 30 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 180 Today's Topics: Dynabyte Monarch boot disk and manuals Osborne users? rna server at lakart (was Re: UUCP for CP/M) UUCP for CP/Mex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Sep 89 04:30:24 GMT From: oliveb!amdahl!pacbell!sactoh0!ianj@apple.com (Ian R. Justman) Subject: Dynabyte Monarch boot disk and manuals The header says all. This is not the machine I have, but a machine a friend of mine acquired not too long ago. -- Home: Ian Justman |UUCP: |"One of the few 6612 Whitsett Drive | |die-hard CP/M North Highlands, CA 95660| pacbell!sactoh0!ianj |addicts left on this (916) 344-5360 | |planet" ------------------------------ Date: 30 Sep 89 03:03:41 GMT From: bane@mimsy.umd.edu (John R. Bane) Subject: Osborne users? I have a relative who was recently talked into buying an Osborne, and is now in search of manuals, software, and advice (I'd normally advise another machine, but they didn't ask me when they bought it). Anybody out there use one of these, or know anyone who does? Please respond by mail, as I don't normally read this newsgroup. Thanks! Bob Bane (bane@mimsy.umd.edu, ..!uunet!mimsy!bane) -- ARPAnet: bane@mimsy.umd.edu UUCP:...umcp-cs!bane ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 89 15:38:16 GMT From: spdcc!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (David Goodenough) Subject: rna server at lakart (was Re: UUCP for CP/M) wtr@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu (Bill Robison) says: > Willie Smith asked about obtaining the UUCP software from lakart. > If this information is available, please post it for the rest of > us. This sounds interesting and useful. I have mechanisms available > to get from our 780 on Internet to several CP/M formats (both 8 & 5) > if someone gets really stuck for a way to get a copy... The server's address is rna@lakart.uucp - for routes into lakart see my .sig file below. The generic form for a request is: /send whatever to wherever the '/send' and 'to' must be present, and in the places shown, and with no other words added in. The server uses an awk script to pull request lines out, and the format has got to be an exact match so saying /send index won't get anything, since the 'to' and the address are missing. whatever is the file you want, I'd suggest starting with help and index. wherever is your address, and you should note the following: 1. Internet addresses can be handled as is, so if Bill Robison wanted help he'd say: /send help to wtr@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu Note that lakart will route automatically to BITNET, so if you're at a bitnet site: /send index to fred@system.bitnet is all it takes. 2. UUCP addresses for sites in the map can be given as: site!user or user@site.uucp so if I wanted to send stuff to pallio (my CP/M machine at home) I could say: /send index to pallio!dg /send help to dg@pallio.uucp 3. UUCP addresses for sites _NOT_ in the map must be given as a bang path from a backbone / other site that _IS_ in the maps, so if pallio talked to doofus, but doofus wasn't in the maps I'd have to say: /send index to pallio!doofus!john_doe Any questions drop me a line here. BTW, I "audit" all requests, and try to sort out bad ones (i.e. ones that the server can't grok). By far and away the worst "offence" is people who say: /send help without an address. That address is important!! -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+ ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 89 16:51:15 GMT From: mcsun!unido!altger!snoopy@uunet.uu.net (Mathias Niemz) Subject: UUCP for CP/Mex I'm interested too in a uucp for my bbs on a Altos 580. Can someone send it me via altger ? -- uucp: ...!pyramid!netmbx!altger!snoopy or ...!uunet!altnet!altger!snoopy Snailmail: Mathias Niemz, Preussenallee 23, D-1000 Berlin 19 Phone (Voice !) D-030 305 50 60 Fax (on vacancy only !): 49 5121 15405 Datex-P: (0262)44 3000 90345 (no uucp yet) E-Mail: GEO1:M.Niemz ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V89 Issue #180 *************************************