6-Dec-91 12:25:24-MST,8834;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 6-Dec-91 12:22:40 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 6 Dec 91 12:22:39 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #191 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911206122240.V91N191@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 6 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 191 Today's Topics: Flexible Z[2]80 disassembler original (was: Z[2]80 Disassembler) Re: CP/M Emulator for Unix? Re: LBR files on MS-DOS Re: Xerox 820/II ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Nov 91 12:56:10 GMT From: mcsun!sun4nl!wn1.sci.kun.nl!cs.kun.nl!lwj@uunet.uu.net (Luc Rooijakkers) Subject: Flexible Z[2]80 disassembler original (was: Z[2]80 Disassembler) Message-ID: <1991Nov27.125610.981@sci.kun.nl> In alt.sources <23175@hoptoad.uucp> curt@hoptoad.uucp (Curt Mayer) writes: >This package contains an intelligent Z80/Z280 (compile-time selectable) >disassembler for CP/M .COM files. It is derived from an excellent dumb >disassembler by Luc Rooijakkers . Thanks, Curt! Your derived version is much less flexible, though. Those who want the original can get it via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.kun.nl as /pub/Z80Dis/z80dis.tar.Z. Excerpts from the README file: > This package comprises a universal Z80/Z280 (compile-time selectable) > disassembler module, together with three front-ends using it: a simple > disassembler for CP/M .COM files, an opcode table producing program and > an opcode list producing program. > > The package was originally written in TurboC 2.0. It has been cleaned up > to the point that it *should* be portable C now. Prototypes are included and > used if the preprocessor symbol PROTO is defined (see the Makefile). The > Z80 version works with SunOs 4.0.3 cc; both Z280 and Z80 work with gcc. It was originally (27 Dec 1989) posted to comp.os.cpm, shortly followed by a patch (10 Jan 1990). The tar file includes the patch. -- Luc Rooijakkers Internet: lwj@cs.kun.nl Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science UUCP: uunet!cs.kun.nl!lwj University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands tel. +3180652271 ------------------------------ Date: 27 Nov 91 03:52:50 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!bruce!trlluna!titan!rhea!aduncan@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Allan Duncan) Subject: Re: CP/M Emulator for Unix? Message-ID: <1991Nov27.035250.23527@trl.oz.au> There is a Z80 & CP/M emulator on one of the Amiga PD collections - I seem to recollect that it is in 68000 assembler, but given the closeness of Unix and AmigaDos there would not be too much trouble in porting it to those machines that have 680x0 in their guts. Allan Duncan ACSnet aduncan@trl.oz (+613) 541 6708 Internet aduncan@trl.oz.au UUCP {uunet,hplabs,ukc}!munnari!trl.oz.au!aduncan Telecom Research Labs, PO Box 249, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Nov 91 11:01:26 GMT From: mcsun!uknet!cam-orl!arj@uunet.uu.net (Andy Jackson) Subject: Re: LBR files on MS-DOS Message-ID: <1991Nov27.110126.26166@cam-orl.co.uk> Thanks for all the help that I have received both in comp.os.cpm and by email. I used the uncrunch program posted by Scott Marshall and it de-compressed all my files for me. Thanks again, Andy.. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Jackson - arj@cam-orl.co.uk or arj@cam-orl.uucp - phone 0223-343308 Olivetti Research, 24a Trumpington Street, Cambridge, UK, CB2 1QA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1991 10:16:51 PST From: Sprague.Wbst311@xerox.com Subject: Re: Xerox 820/II Message-ID: <" 3-Dec-91 13:16:51 EST".*.Michael_D._Sprague.wbst311@Xerox.com> The Xerox 820-II has a serial printer port built in, with a connector on the back. It is assumed that you will used a serial printer interface when connecting a printer the the Xerox 820-II. There is an optional parallel port on the mother board though. General Purpose PIO: -------------------- As you stated, there is a 40 pin header inside the machine (J8), for connecting up to the General Purpose PIO. This port can be configured to support a parallel printer interface. To do so, you will have to build a printer cable, configure the port, and then run the CONFIGUR utility on your CP/M system disk (and any other system disk that will need to support the parallel printer). Following is a pinout of the 40 pin connector, its pin assignment, and how these pins are used for the parallel printer port option. J8 Pin Assignment Printer Assignment -- -------------- ------------------ 1 2 all odd o o Port A STROBE numbered o o Port A READY pins are o o Port A bit 0 Data Bit 0 grounded o o Port A bit 1 Data Bit 1 o o Port A bit 2 Data Bit 2 o o Port A bit 3 Data Bit 3 o o Port A bit 4 Data Bit 4 o o Port A bit 5 Data Bit 5 o o Port A bit 6 Data Bit 6 o o Port A bit 7 Data Bit 7 o o Port B READY o o Port B STROBE o o Port B bit 0 Auto LF o o Port B bit 1 o o Port B bit 2 Data Strobe o o Port B bit 3 o o Port B bit 4 Busy o o Port B bit 5 o o Port B bit 6 On Line o o Port B bit 7 Acknowledge 39 40 General Purpose PIO Hardware Configuration: ------------------------------------------- To configure the hardware, you will need to add shunt jumpers to J11. Jumpers should be installed between pins 1 and 3, pins 5 and 6, pins 9 and 10, and pins 17 and 18. This will configure the Port A and the lower 4 bits of Port B for output, and the upper 4 bits of Port B for input. J11 --- 1 2 PB6 o o PB4 o o Port B READY polarity o o Port B lower direction odd pins o o Port A READY polarity 3-17 are o o Port A upper direction grounded o o Port B upper direction o o Port A STROBE polarity o o Port B STROBE polarity o o Port A lower direction +5 V o o +5 V 19 20 Parallel Printer Software Configuration: ---------------------------------------- When you run the CONFIGUR utility, select the "Select I/O Device Assignments" option. Change the "List" device to the Parallel Printer option. Now exit, and save the configuration. Note the the "Print Screen" function on the keyboard will no longer work. Building the Printer Cable: --------------------------- I have done this two different ways. The first was to run ribbon cable into a D25 connector, and then build a D25 to Centronics cable. This took a little more work, since I had to solder connections, but was easy to do. Note that it was NOT compatible with the IBM parallel cable. The second way was to make a long ribbon cable, that went directly from the 820-II to the printer. This can be obnoxious to do, since you need to cut and move wires in the ribbon cable, in order to get them to line up with the centronics. A third option would be to run ribbon cable to a D25 connector, and make it compatible with IBM's printer cable. It's just not worth it though. It will cost you more than the second option, and you have to move even MORE wires than you have to do with the second option. Of course, you could run ribbon cable directly to a D25 connector, and then buy one of those little interface boxes that have a D25 on each side, and the ability to cross-wire what ever you need. Then it would be pretty easy to make the final output compatible with an IBM PC printer cable. Here is the pin to pin connection I used for the second option (ribbon cable from 820-II to printer). Centronics J8 ---------- --- 1 30 2 6 3 8 4 10 5 12 6 14 7 16 8 18 9 20 10 40 11 34 12 36 13 38 14 26 15 nc 16 nc 17 nc 18 nc 19 31 20 7 21 9 22 11 23 13 24 15 25 17 26 19 27 39 28 33 29 35 30 37 31 nc 32 nc 33 nc 34 nc 35 nc 36 nc I do not currently have a copy of what I did for option 1, though with a little time, I'm sure I could come up with it. If need be, I can also list the pin out of the Centronics printer connector. Note that the pins on the centronics connector are numbered in a row (first row: 1-18; second row: 19-36), rather than back an forth as on the 40 pin connector (first row: odd numbers; second row: even numbers). Latter, all. ~ Mike (Sprague.Wbst311@Xerox.Com) ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #191 ************************************* 12-Dec-91 10:16:40-MST,4306;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 12-Dec-91 10:13:45 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 10:13:44 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #192 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911212101345.V91N192@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Thu, 12 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 192 Today's Topics: CPM emulators written in 68000 assembly language Info Intertek Computer Osborne Executive and external monitor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Dec 91 01:23:01 GMT From: amethyst!salado!afthree.as.arizona.edu!tom@arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) Subject: CPM emulators written in 68000 assembly language Message-ID: <1991Dec11.012301.26863@salado.rc.arizona.edu> A recent post by aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au mentioned that a z80 and CP/M emulator existed written in 68000 assembly language. Thanks for the tip! I poked around a bit, and found two of these in an amiga archive site, and thought I would post the details in case others were interested. I do not own an amiga, probably never will, but I do own an ATT unix-pc which is a 68010 machine -- my thought is that an emulator carefully written in assembly should far outperform one written in C. My desire is to be able to run M80, L80, and a C-compiler using one of these emulators on my unix machine, then I will have make and vi and be able to generate code for embedded Z80 or 8085 projects. All just plans at this point, but if it ever flies, perhaps I will report back here. As yet, I am not clear which of these two I will use, and I imagine I will write some code in C on the unix machine, and package the assembly language code as a routine within that. Anyway here is what I found...... At the anonymous ftp site gatekeeper.dec.com -- ---------------------------------- cd pub/micros/atari/fish/f1/f165 binary ; get CPM.zoo This emulator does Z80 and CP/M emulation, with ADM3A support. Was written by Ulf Nordquist and is dated 10/88 ---------------------------------- cd pub/micros/atari/fish/f1/f165 binary ; get SimCPM.zoo Two earlier versions of this one are in the archives at gatekeeper. This emulator was originally an 8080 job with Heath H19 support. This version (2.0) now supports the full set of Z80 opcodes. Was written by Jim Cathey and Charlie Gibbs and is dated 1-9-89 Apparently is based on a set of articles that appeared in Dr. Dobbs Journal in January - March, 1986 -- Tom Trebisky ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 18:56:00 pst From: Michael Bertsch Subject: Info Please E-mial me some info on cpm and what-not. I'd like to know what You have to do with me (CP/M computer owner) and if CP/M 3 is available for kaypro 2. ---Adam & Michael Bertsch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 11:01:18 -0500 From: Jay Sage Subject: Intertek Computer Message-ID: <9112091101.AA19543@LL.MIT.EDU> Does anyone out there know anything about the Compustar Multiuser Terminal System, Model 20? It was made by Intertek Data Systems in Columbia, SC. Someone who owns such a machine contacted me. They say that the company is no longer listed with telephone information. This owner would love to share information and software. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 91 03:08:52 GMT From: csus.edu!wupost!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!mineng.dmpe.CSIRO.AU!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!ditsydh.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU!ken@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Ken Yap) Subject: Osborne Executive and external monitor Message-ID: <1991Dec10.030852.19502@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> I've got one of these things. The screen is too small but there's an external video socket labelled "composite video". What sort of monitor do I need? Will a plain monochrome PC monitor do? ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #192 ************************************* 16-Dec-91 09:21:04-MST,9149;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 09:15:23 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #193 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911216091524.V91N193@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 16 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 193 Today's Topics: Altos 5-15ad (multiuser) CP/M Emulators Yet Again File copy utility with archive bit and datestamp ? Osborne Executive and external monitor Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #192 Re: Intertek Computer Re: Osborne Executive and external monitor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 Dec 91 05:10:45 GMT From: bobsbox!gnat!news@rutgers.edu (Andreas Meyer) Subject: Altos 5-15ad (multiuser) Message-ID: (updated 91Oct05) Altos Series 5 microcomputer, Model 5-15ad Ready to run! This machine supports 3 users! Hardware: Z80 CPU, 64k RAM Dual 5.25" floppy drives (700k each) 4 serial ports (3 user, 1 printer) 1 parallel port (alt. printer) User's manual Software: MP/M, CP/M, CCS Business BASIC ...and much, much more! Compact! Only 7"H x 14"W x 16"D! Make an offer. (Include shipping) This is not an S100 machine. It does not have a hard drive (and it was designed that way). Email or phone: Andy 908-668-6202 weekdays -- Andreas Meyer, N2FYE ahm@gnat.rent.com {backbone}!att!nsscmail!gnat!ahm Specializing in exploratory development for nearly two decades. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 91 16:43:23 EST From: Mike Freeman Subject: CP/M Emulators Yet Again Message-ID: Fellow CP/Mers: With all the discussion of CP/M emulators for Unix and 68K systems, my curiosity was aroused. Does anyone know of a CP/M/Z80 emuator for a VAX/VMS system? I hold out little hope (don't really need it but it'd be handy). Thanks in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Freeman, K7UIJ | Internet: freeman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu 301 N.E. 107th Street | GEnie: M.FREEMAN11 VancouvEr, WA 98685 USA | Confidence is the feeling you have Telephone (206)574-8221 | before you understand the situation. ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 91 00:08:17 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!unixhub!unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!ralph@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ralph Becker-Szendy) Subject: File copy utility with archive bit and datestamp ? Message-ID: <2826@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Does anyone know a cp/m utility similar to NewSweep, Wash or B29 which - Knows about the archive bit (copy only files which have been modified, and set the archive status bit after copying), and - Knows about Novados (or SuperBDOS or cp/m+ or ...) style datestamps, and can propagate the datestamp from the source to the destination file when copying, and - works with NovaDOS (or SuperBDOS or Z80DOS), which are a set of enhanced BDOS replacements ? A user interface as nifty as NewSweep, Wash or B29 is not required. The use of such a utility is obvious: Backup, including incremental backup. The newer BDOSes already support datestamping and the archive bit, so all the information is there. There is a program called ARCOPY21 in the SIMTEL archive, which can do copying depending on the archive bit, but it doesn't reset the archive bit on the source of the copy, nor does it know about datestamps. Part of the problem could probably solved with ZEX scripts, but again that doesn't help with the datestamps. Any pointers ? I do not use cp/m+ (aka cp/m 3.0), and I rarely use ZCPR3.4 (aka NZ-COM), so I would prefer a tool which functions under cp/m 2.2 with such an enhanced BDOS. -- Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Stanford Linear Accelerator Center RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET M.S. 95, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309 (408)926-2701 ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 91 03:08:52 GMT From: ucivax!news.claremont.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!mineng.dmpe.CSIRO.AU!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!ditsydh.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU!ken@ucbvax (Ken Yap) Subject: Osborne Executive and external monitor Message-ID: <1991Dec10.030852.19502@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> I've got one of these things. The screen is too small but there's an external video socket labelled "composite video". What sort of monitor do I need? Will a plain monochrome PC monitor do? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 09:41:40 IST From: "Jacques J. Goldberg" Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #192 On Thu, 12 Dec 1991 10:13:44 MST said: >Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 11:01:18 -0500 >From: Jay Sage >Subject: Intertek Computer >Message-ID: <9112091101.AA19543@LL.MIT.EDU> > > Does anyone out there know anything about the Compustar Multiuser Terminal >System, Model 20? It was made by Intertek Data Systems in Columbia, SC. >Someone who owns such a machine contacted me. They say that the company is >no longer listed with telephone information. This owner would love to share >information and software. > Jay, please ask the owner if he does not mean INTERTEC rather than with a final K. The name of the system indeed rings a bell. INTERTEC was the manufacturer of the famous SuperBrain series and I definitely remember they had a hard disk based M/PM system which is very likely what you have there. If this is correct then it runs any MP/M and CP/M software. I may have very limited info hidden somewhere, of the kind a dealer would provide "by the way" about the MP/M system when selling the stand-alone CP/M one. Jacques Goldberg ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 91 15:14:08 GMT From: prism!jm59@gatech.edu (MILLS,JOHN M.) Subject: Re: Intertek Computer Message-ID: <43777@hydra.gatech.EDU> In article <9112091101.AA19543@LL.MIT.EDU> sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes: > > Does anyone out there know anything about the Compustar Multiuser Terminal >System, Model 20? It was made by Intertek Data Systems in Columbia, SC. >Someone who owns such a machine contacted me. They say that the company is >no longer listed with telephone information. This owner would love to share >information and software. I think this machine was the diskless sibling (possibly the predecessor) (and maybe even the predecedent) of the Intertec _Superbrain_ cp/m systems we had at Scientific-Atlanta in about 1980-82. My memory is that the system had a single motherboard, very few options, the usual dumb-terminal cursor addressing and character attributes (but no graphics), and came in three disk configurations: one 5.25" DD/DS, two 5.25" DD/DS, and one diskette plus one internal hard disk. I could be wrong about the last. My two-drive model routinely burned out the disk drives, since they had rubber-band drive and ran _all_the_time_. The Superbrain looked like a reasonably smooth Adds terminal. If your Compustar looks like a terminal, it may _just_be_ a terminal. If it looks like a chassis, it may be a multiuser cp/m of some kind. What does it look like? Any connectors which might be fast enough data paths for a shared-disk transfer? I have some old disks from my Superbrain, but don't at the moment have any way to read them. The sector size is too large for the BIOS of my SD-Systems boat anchor, and I never got a 5.25" drive to work convincingly with it, anyway. Maybe this will jog someone's memory on the _Compustar_. -- John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/EEEL, Atlanta, GA 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!jm59 Internet: jm59@prism.gatech.edu "f U cn rd dis, U mst uz Unix!!!" ...jaw ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 91 00:10:59 GMT From: world!bmarcum@uunet.uu.net (Bill Marcum) Subject: Re: Osborne Executive and external monitor Message-ID: In article <1991Dec10.030852.19502@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap) writes: >I've got one of these things. The screen is too small but there's an >external video socket labelled "composite video". What sort of monitor >do I need? Will a plain monochrome PC monitor do? I'm not familiar with the Osborne, but if it's really composite video, an IBM PC monitor won't work. A TV with audio/video inputs, or a VCR, or a Commodore 1702 monitor would work. ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #193 ************************************* 16-Dec-91 12:24:38-MST,11859;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 12:20:57 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #194 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911216122058.V91N194@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 16 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 194 Today's Topics: Emulator IMSAI 8080 disk specs needed Pied Piper port. Re: CP/M Emulators Yet Again Re: File copy utility with archive bit and datestamp ? Re: Osborne Executive and external monitor Re: Otrona questions! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 13 Dec 91 17:56:50 GMT From: zon+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zonnie Lee Williamson) Subject: Emulator Message-ID: After reading about the interest in emulators, I thought that I would post this pre-release notice. Several years back (you've heard this before...) I wrote an 8080 emulator that ran CP/M modulo a couple of minor bugs. I was in the process of upgrading it to a Z80 emulator when I became interested in other things. I have been playing with it again and may even finish it... My emulator is written in C for BSD Unix. I intend it to be public-domain. I keep my copy of CP/M 2.2 in hex on-line for testing, but users will have to supply their own copy. Perhaps someone could come up with some "free" alternatives. I have several "devices" that can be accessed: 1) multiple ttys 2) emulated disks (one disk per Unix file) 3) Unix file access If anyone has ideas of things that they would like to see in a portable emulator, let me know and I will try to work them in. It may take a while, but if there is enough interest, it may keep me interested... Zon Williamson ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 91 15:50:47 GMT From: netcomsv!davidthx@decwrl.dec.com (David Holleb) Subject: IMSAI 8080 disk specs needed Message-ID: <1991Dec13.155047.2312davidthx@netcom.COM> I need the disk formatting specs for 5.25 inch disks originally used on an IMSAI 8080. I have a cp/m disk emulator for an IBM but it needs the formatting specs in order to work. Any help is appreciated. Thanks David ------------------------------ Date: 15 Dec 91 01:54:50 GMT From: snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!milton!bperigo@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Bob Perigo) Subject: Pied Piper port. Message-ID: <1991Dec15.015450.10217@milton.u.washington.edu> Hoping someone can send me the pinouts for the female db15 printer port socket on the Pied Piper 001. The labels for the db37 drive 2 connector would also be appreciated. -- INTERNET,BITNET: bperigo@u.washington.edu / _ Bob Perigo babble on BABEL @ 206-363-8969 9600b USR HST /_)/_) UW Box SM-28 VOICE Bob at 206-367-4433 8am-8pm Seattle time / Seattle, WA UUCP Path: ...uw-beaver!u.washington.edu!bperigo 98195 ------------------------------ Date: 15 Dec 91 20:04:28 GMT From: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis.cs.du.edu!trussell@uunet.uu.net (Tim Russell) Subject: Re: CP/M Emulators Yet Again Message-ID: <1991Dec15.200428.10155@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu writes: > Second that request. I'd *LOVE* to see a VAX/VMS CP/M Emulator. If you get >any info send it to me please. Well, I sent mail to Mike, but since there is more interest I'll post it here. The university I attend had two 11/780s back in, I believe, 1984. One of these had a board in it sold by a company called Bridge something- or-other. It had four Z80H's on it running CP/M which users could access. Any more than four got an emulated CP/M which was slower. It used VMS virtual disk files and had transfer utilities. I can probably get more info on it from the then-system manager, but I seriously doubt the company is still in business or selling the boards. -- Tim Russell Omaha, NE trussell@isis.cs.du.edu "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 91 04:19:56 GMT From: amdcad!netcomsv!zig@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Curtis) Subject: Re: File copy utility with archive bit and datestamp ? Message-ID: <1991Dec13.041956.14584zig@netcom.COM> ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: >Does anyone know a cp/m utility similar to NewSweep, Wash or B29 which >- Knows about the archive bit (copy only files which have been > modified, and set the archive status bit after copying), and >- Knows about Novados (or SuperBDOS or cp/m+ or ...) style datestamps, > and can propagate the datestamp from the source to the destination > file when copying, and The program you need is ACOPY. The latest version is 3.3. I'm not sure if it is available in the net archives though. If not you can find it on ZeeMachine here in the San Jose area: 408-245-1420. ACOPY 3.3 does offer full support of datestamps and use of the archive bit. The author of the program calls ZeeMachine regularly and is more than happy to assist if you require any help, but I believe ACOPY should meet all of your needs 'right out of the box'. >Any pointers ? I do not use cp/m+ (aka cp/m 3.0), and I rarely use >ZCPR3.4 (aka NZ-COM), so I would prefer a tool which functions under >cp/m 2.2 with such an enhanced BDOS. You mean you have ZCPR34 and actually prefer vanilla CP/M?? I'm shocked.. :) -- .... ... ... ......................................................... ....... ... ... ........... John Curtis ....... aka Ziig on IRC ......... ...... .... ... .. ....... Santa Clara, Ca ................................. ..... ..... ... ... ....... zig@netcom.com ......... ZCPR Lives!! .......... .... ... ... ......................................................... ------------------------------ Date: 12 Dec 91 17:15:31 GMT From: math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!tpki.toppoint.de!victor@uunet.uu.net (Cornelius Keck) Subject: Re: Osborne Executive and external monitor Message-ID: <1991Dec12.171531.14087@tpki.toppoint.de> ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap) writes: >I've got one of these things. The screen is too small but there's an >external video socket labelled "composite video". What sort of monitor >do I need? Will a plain monochrome PC monitor do? No. You should try to find an old monochrome monitor for the C64. A CBM 1081 or 1084 should do the same job, but only b/w, no color available. CU, CK. -- Cornelius Keck victor@tpki.toppoint.de 2300 Kiel 1 *** this bug is a feature ! *** ------------------------------ Date: 3 Dec 91 06:45:04 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: Otrona questions! Message-ID: <1991Dec3.064504.25369@baron.uucp> trussell@isis.cs.du.edu (Tim Russell) writes: > > Well, it seems I've become the owner of an Attache in good shape and >working order. Unfortunately, manuals weren't part of the deal. :-) > > ** stuff deleted ** > > When I took it apart, I noticed that it has a slot for some sort of >an option board. What was it, an internal modem, I assume? Also, I >know I'm dreaming, but is there any way to get a hard drive going in >one of the drive bays? > The primary application for the slot was an 8086 board which gave a limited MSODS 2.11 capability. There was also a board that provided what appears to be an IEEE-488 interface for an external hard disk. There may have been an internal modem, but I never heard of it. > Does anyone have pinouts for the serial ports? Once I get them I've >got Mex all set up to go on it. Also, what terminal does it emulate, >and can I get it to do VT-100? > The pinouts for the serial ports are attached. Probably if you are using MEX+ you can use that VT-xxx emulator. I forget whether it is VT-100 or 52. > Mine has stickers on the keys for a numeric keypad on 789UIOJKLM, >and also "Alarm", "Screen", and "Calc" on A, S, and C. What are these for? > If you press Ctrl-Esc, you will get a status line along the bottom edge of the screen that then permits setting a variety of things; including key-click, screen brightness, baud rate, etc. and also displays time and date. Pressing the Tab key while the status line is present gives a new status line with choices of Calculator, Screen Dump, Alarms, Install, and Exit. Each of these is a function of Valet which requires the presence of the file VALET.VL2 on disk. By the way, if you have not already discovered it, right shift & reset will reset (cold boot) the Attache. > Are there any PD programs for PCs to read/write the disks? It >seems like the drives are standard PC drives, unless they're using a >wierd controller to write them. > I'm not aware of any PD programs. Sydex's shareware 22DISK, MicroSolutions commercial UniForm-PC, are two programs with that capability, however. You are correct, they are standard 360k drives - just 2/3rd high vice half high. > Aside from these questions :-) I'm pretty well set. I used to have >a lot of fun hacking on my 4p back in '85, and believe it or not I'm >looking forward to having a nice simple CP/M machine to hack on. > Good! Enjoy it. - don -------------- cut here --------------- OTRONA PORTS Local RS-232 Device (Printer) RS-232C Attache Pin Function Direction Pin ----------------------------------------------------- 1 Ground Not Applicable 1 2 Transmitted Data To DCE 4 3 Received Data From DCE 2 5 Clear to Send From DCE 9 6 Data Set Ready From DCE 3 7 Ground Not Applicable 8 7 Trans. Data Return From DCE 11 7 Data Term. Ready Return From DCE 12 8 Recvd Signal Dectector From DCE 10 20 Data Terminal Ready To DCE 5 Communications RS-232 Device (Modem) RS-232C Attache Pin Function Direction Pin ----------------------------------------------------- 1 Shield Ground Not Applicable 1 2 Transmitted Data To DCE 2 3 Received Data From DCE 4 4 Request to Send To DCE 10 5 Clear to Send From DCE 5 7 Signal Ground Not Applicable 8 7 Recvd Data Return To DCE 11 7 Clear to Send Return To DCE 12 20 Data Terminal Ready To DCE 9 Note: In local cable uses, Attache appears as a DCE to the peripheral. The peripheral appears as DTE to Attache. Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #194 ************************************* 20-Dec-91 14:28:28-MST,5757;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 20-Dec-91 14:24:44 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 14:24:43 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #195 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911220142444.V91N195@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 20 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 195 Today's Topics: Bradford Printing Program Copy With Archive and Date Stamp KPro 4 with SWP CoPower_88 OSBORNE Video Info SIMTEL20 down time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 91 20:00 CST From: Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@ucs.UWPLATT.EDU> Subject: Bradford Printing Program Message-ID: Hello, Could someone please tell me if Aaron Contorer of ConCom Enterprises still supports his Bradford printing program? It is available from Simtel20 as a fully function executable with little documentation. I am interested in getting the documentation. A letter if inquiry to the p.o. box address was never responded to. If anyone is using Bradford could help me I would much appreciate it. I am having problems getting Bradford to properly indent paragraphs when printing in justified mode. Bradford is indenting BOTH sides of the line, instead of just from the left margin. Is there a special command it get it to indent paragraphs? I have noticed that none of the sample files that come with the public distribution contain any indented paragraphs. Lance ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lance Tagliapietra Internet: 96720919@ucs.uwplatt.edu P.O. Box 26 BitNet: 96720919@uwplatt Platteville, WI 53818 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 91 17:26:31 EST From: Mike Freeman Subject: Copy With Archive and Date Stamp Message-ID: In a recent Info-cpm Digest, you let it be known that you were looking for a program that would copy files and handle the "archive" bit in a sane matter as well as handle date/time stamps under one of the BDOS replacements. Try PPIP18.LBR. It should be on Simtel-20 in the pd2: or pd2: directories (guess the periods should have been commas -- have VMS on the brain!). PPIP18 is pretty slick and only 4 or 5 K to boot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Freeman, K7UIJ | Internet: freeman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu 301 N.E. 107th Street | GEnie: M.FREEMAN11 Vancouver, WA 98685 USA | Confidence is the feeling you have Telephone (206)574-8221 | before you understand the situation. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 91 18:05:48 -0500 From: crone@cuavax.dnet.cua.edu (Tom Crone) Subject: KPro 4 with SWP CoPower_88 Message-ID: <9112182305.AA22795@netcon.cua.edu> I recently inherited a couple Kaypro 4s, one with an SWP CoPower_88 board. Several questions: 1. The disk marked CPM-86 is un-readable. Does anybody know where I could get a replacement? 2. Does anyone know about memory or other upgrades for the KP4 or CoPower? (the CoPower seems to have 256K) 3. Any users' groups or BBSs, especially near Washington, DC? Thanks for your time and help. Tom Crone CRONE@CUA or CRONE@CUAVAX.DNET.CUA.EDU or, if others fail: CRONE%CUAVAX.DNET@NETCON.CUA.EDU ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 91 00:26:49 GMT From: mcsun!unido!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!altger!doitcr!jungkunz@uunet.uu.net (Helmut Jungkunz) Subject: OSBORNE Video Info Message-ID: <1727@doitcr.doit.sub.org> Hi everybody! I just read the request for help on OSBORNE's video standard. Well, it's really a standard composite video signal, that can be displayed on any video monitor. There's a trick though to get a reasonable display, since OSBORNE does not use a standard screen size: unwind the deflection coil of the CRT by two circles, that should do it! In any case, consult the FOG, First Osborne Group, on that matter. I think they discussed this in their famous FOGHORN. Ciao, regards and cu (-: , -> Helmut Jungkunz <- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1991 10:57 MST From: Keith Petersen Subject: SIMTEL20 down time Message-ID: SIMTEL20 has been down due to building air conditioner failure. A very large blower is temporarily being used to circulate outside air through the room pending repair. Because of this unusual situation, SIMTEL20 will be up during weekday prime time only. It is not known at this time when repairs will be completed. SIMTEL20 files are also available from mirror sites OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2), nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7) or rana.cc.deakin.oz.au (128.184.1.4), or by e-mail through the BITNET/EARN file servers. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #195 ************************************* 24-Dec-91 13:36:27-MST,4206;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 24-Dec-91 13:32:20 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 24 Dec 91 13:32:20 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #196 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911224133221.V91N196@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 24 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 196 Today's Topics: 8080/Z80 Cross-Assembler for VAX/VMS? Bradford Printing Program Re: CP/M Emulators Yet Again Turbo Pascal 3.01a ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 91 17:53:53 EST From: Mike Freeman Subject: 8080/Z80 Cross-Assembler for VAX/VMS? Message-ID: Netland: Anyone know of a cross-assembler that understands Intel 8080 and/or Zilog Z80 mnemonics that runs on a VAX/VMS system? Thanks in advance. Happy Holidays! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Freeman, K7UIJ | Internet: freeman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu 301 N.E. 107th Street | GEnie: M.FREEMAN11 Vancouver, WA 98685 USA | Confidence is the feeling you have Telephone (206)574-8221 | before you understand the situation. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 91 11:12:01 EST From: Paul V. Pullen Subject: Bradford Printing Program Message-ID: <9112241112.aa01592@crdec7.apgea.army.mil> Alex Contorer has been supporting his printing program, but has moved. His new address is: Alex Contorer Contorer Computing Post Office Box 6755 Bellevue, Washington 98008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul V. Pullen U. S. Army Chemical Research, Development & Engineering Center Individual Protection Division Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD DDN Mailbox Comm 1-301-671-2519 pvpullen@apgea.army.mil -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 15 Dec 91 20:04:28 GMT From: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis.cs.du.edu!trussell@uunet.uu.net (Tim Russell) Subject: Re: CP/M Emulators Yet Again Message-ID: <1991Dec15.200428.10155@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu writes: > Second that request. I'd *LOVE* to see a VAX/VMS CP/M Emulator. If you get >any info send it to me please. Well, I sent mail to Mike, but since there is more interest I'll post it here. The university I attend had two 11/780s back in, I believe, 1984. One of these had a board in it sold by a company called Bridge something- or-other. It had four Z80H's on it running CP/M which users could access. Any more than four got an emulated CP/M which was slower. It used VMS virtual disk files and had transfer utilities. I can probably get more info on it from the then-system manager, but I seriously doubt the company is still in business or selling the boards. -- Tim Russell Omaha, NE trussell@isis.cs.du.edu "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------ Date: 18 Dec 91 23:27:52 GMT From: netcomsv!alpha@apple.com (Joe Wright) Subject: Turbo Pascal 3.01a Message-ID: <1991Dec18.232752.23495alpha@netcom.COM> Borland Turbo Pascal 3.01a for sale. MSDOS ($90) and for CP/M ($60). Includes newly typeset 380 page Reference Manual in 8.5" x 5.5" format, three-ring looseleaf. Ideal holiday present for the hacker who has 'almost' everything. Check or Money Order. -- Joe Wright alpha@Netcom.COM "If you want it wRight" Alpha Systems Corp., 711 Chatsworth Pl., San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 297-5594 (voice) "If you want it wRight now!" ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #196 ************************************* 30-Dec-91 09:31:26-MST,12723;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 30 Dec 91 09:15:55 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #197 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <911230091557.V91N197@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 30 Dec 91 Volume 91 : Issue 197 Today's Topics: CPM emulators written in 68000 assembly language GIF -> RLE GIF Reader? Graphics standard for small systems? Happy Holidays IBM keyboard articles Re: CPM emulators written in 68000 assembly language Re: Intertek Computer Re: Osborne Executive and external monitor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Dec 91 01:23:01 GMT From: amethyst!salado!afthree.as.arizona.edu!tom@arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) Subject: CPM emulators written in 68000 assembly language Message-ID: <1991Dec11.012301.26863@salado.rc.arizona.edu> A recent post by aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au mentioned that a z80 and CP/M emulator existed written in 68000 assembly language. Thanks for the tip! I poked around a bit, and found two of these in an amiga archive site, and thought I would post the details in case others were interested. I do not own an amiga, probably never will, but I do own an ATT unix-pc which is a 68010 machine -- my thought is that an emulator carefully written in assembly should far outperform one written in C. My desire is to be able to run M80, L80, and a C-compiler using one of these emulators on my unix machine, then I will have make and vi and be able to generate code for embedded Z80 or 8085 projects. All just plans at this point, but if it ever flies, perhaps I will report back here. As yet, I am not clear which of these two I will use, and I imagine I will write some code in C on the unix machine, and package the assembly language code as a routine within that. Anyway here is what I found...... At the anonymous ftp site gatekeeper.dec.com -- ---------------------------------- cd pub/micros/atari/fish/f1/f165 binary ; get CPM.zoo This emulator does Z80 and CP/M emulation, with ADM3A support. Was written by Ulf Nordquist and is dated 10/88 ---------------------------------- cd pub/micros/atari/fish/f1/f165 binary ; get SimCPM.zoo Two earlier versions of this one are in the archives at gatekeeper. This emulator was originally an 8080 job with Heath H19 support. This version (2.0) now supports the full set of Z80 opcodes. Was written by Jim Cathey and Charlie Gibbs and is dated 1-9-89 Apparently is based on a set of articles that appeared in Dr. Dobbs Journal in January - March, 1986 -- Tom Trebisky ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu ------------------------------ Date: 30 Dec 91 10:43:37 GMT From: wang!news@uunet.uu.net (Joel Jacobsen) Subject: GIF -> RLE Message-ID: <746@itexjct.jct.ac.il> Where can I get GIF to RLE conversion program? Joel jacobsen@itex.jct.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: 30 Dec 91 10:12:09 GMT From: wang!news@uunet.uu.net (Joel Jacobsen) Subject: GIF Reader? Message-ID: <745@itexjct.jct.ac.il> Hi Is there any GIF reader for CP/M (using GSX)? Is Pascal/MT+ support GSX? Joel jacobsen@itex.jct.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Dec 91 15:54:54 PST From: pallio.UUCP!dg@mis.ucsf.EDU (David Goodenough) Subject: Graphics standard for small systems? Message-ID: dave@ips.oz.au (Dave Horsfall) asks: > Has anyone defined a suitable (portable?) graphics standard for small > machines? Things like Sun raster file, X, GIF etc are all very well, > but a little bit overboard for what I want. Did you look at the RLE format - it's a nice simple and small monochrome graphics format. It goes something like this: ESC G H for the first three characters, then black and white color codes to fill out the entire area of 256 * 192 pixels. The black and white codes come in pairs, a byte for each value, black first, then white. The two counts are simply the number of black pixels, followed by the number of white pixels. Both values are offset by 20h to make them printable, and the largest legal value is 7fh, encoding 5fh pixels (i.e. 95). So to output continuous white, you'd say: 20 7f 20 7f 20 7f ..... etc. That'd give zero black, and 95 white over and over. Note that the picture is filled in from the top left corner, with lines running from left to right, and lines going down. Also, if the number of pixels given wont fit on the remainder of the current line, then simply take the excess and place those on the start of the next line. I think the original spec says to ignore values less than 20h, so that cr/lf pairs can be added for readability. Also, If I were going to send them as text files, I'd want to see about not using 7f, but making my maximum value 7e, which _IS_ a printable character ('~'), where 7f (DEL) is not. Drop me a line if you want some sample RLE files, and maybe I can also cook up some C code to convert a RLE file. Yours, -- dg@pallio.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ .....!wet!pallio!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%pallio.UUCP@cs.sfsu.edu +---+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Dec 91 02:16:54 -0500 From: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Subject: Happy Holidays Message-ID: <9112250716.AA13210@cwns2.INS.CWRU.Edu> 12/24/91 ^ / \ A SAFE and / \ From: / @ O\ HAPPY HOLIDAY \ / The Grey Family and > @ < SEASON / @ S\ The Grey Matter BBS / @ O #\ to you all! / @ @ \ / O O @ \ \ # / > O S @ < / O @ O\ / @ @ # \ / @ @ @ O O \ V O V O S V O V O V O V O V O V O { } { } Please remember that alcohol and gasoline DO NOT MIX! -- Ed Grey \*\ Sysop of The Grey Matter BBS & RCP/M 213-971-6260 P.O. Box #2186 \*\ Bitnet: ac959%cleveland.freenet.edu@cunyvm Inglewood, CA 90305 \*\ Internet: ac959@cleveland.freenet.edu USA \*\ v.: 213-759-7406 \*\ Fido: 1:102/752 \*\ GEnie: E.GREY1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 91 15:20:33 -0500 From: Jay Sage Subject: IBM keyboard articles Message-ID: <9112271520.AA14794@LL.MIT.EDU> I have received the following request from an acquaintance in New Zealand. Is there anyone out there who can help? If you have the magazine article(s) and could photocopy them, we'd appreciate it if you would send the copies either directly to Ewen or to me for forwarding. Ewen does not read this newsgroup (as far as I know), but you can send him Internet mail directly. Thanks. >> I realise you are very busy, and I wouldn't ask if I could think of any >> other source, but I have a favour to ask. I am working on adding a IBM PC >> style keyboard to my Amstrad (by building a custom interface, so as to >> translate PC keystrokes into Amstrad scan codes), but I am having problems >> finding information on the PC keyboard. I know about the scan codes, and >> the pinouts of the connector, but I am having problems finding the >> handshaking protocol - it would appear to be synchronous, but someone said >> that it can be used in both directions. >> >> The following two magazines were mentioned to me as containing articles on >> the IBM PC keyboard interface: >> >> Micro Cornucopia #52, March-April 1990 >> Circuit Cellar Feb/Mar 1990 >> >> I would be very grateful if you have either of these articles and could >> photocopy and send them to me (Ewen McNeill, 58 Fraser Avenue, >> Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand), or if you can find anyone who has >> them. Backorder department addresses, if they still exist, would be >> useful. >> >> --Ewen McNeill, ewen@actrix.gen.nz ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 91 04:13:10 GMT From: mentor.cc.purdue.edu!gauss.math.purdue.edu!wilker@purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) Subject: Re: CPM emulators written in 68000 assembly language Message-ID: <29042@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Just some comments. 1) Most of the tools you mentioned like M80, L80, MAC, RMAC run on an 8080 machine and don't require a Z80 (emulator). 2) If you have an old PC around, you can get quite respectable performance with either emulators like Z80MU or 22NICE. 3) Most unix 68000's use a peculiar brand of 68k assembly language mnemonics compared to Motorola standards. For example, SIMCPM is written using Motorola mnemonics plus quite a few macros. Anyway, I would suggest getting the 8080emulator available from hopf.math.purdue.edu (128.210.3.18) in the ~ftp/pub/cpm directory, and trying it out to see if you really need higer performance ( compared to the work of getting it). I didn't write the emulator. I imported it from the U. Tokyo archives, and the documentation is in Japanese. I figured the configuration out from the source files. Someone in Australia promised me a rough translation of the docs, but I don't have them yet. ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 91 15:14:08 GMT From: prism!jm59@gatech.edu (MILLS,JOHN M.) Subject: Re: Intertek Computer Message-ID: <43777@hydra.gatech.EDU> In article <9112091101.AA19543@LL.MIT.EDU> sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes: > > Does anyone out there know anything about the Compustar Multiuser Terminal >System, Model 20? It was made by Intertek Data Systems in Columbia, SC. >Someone who owns such a machine contacted me. They say that the company is >no longer listed with telephone information. This owner would love to share >information and software. I think this machine was the diskless sibling (possibly the predecessor) (and maybe even the predecedent) of the Intertec _Superbrain_ cp/m systems we had at Scientific-Atlanta in about 1980-82. My memory is that the system had a single motherboard, very few options, the usual dumb-terminal cursor addressing and character attributes (but no graphics), and came in three disk configurations: one 5.25" DD/DS, two 5.25" DD/DS, and one diskette plus one internal hard disk. I could be wrong about the last. My two-drive model routinely burned out the disk drives, since they had rubber-band drive and ran _all_the_time_. The Superbrain looked like a reasonably smooth Adds terminal. If your Compustar looks like a terminal, it may _just_be_ a terminal. If it looks like a chassis, it may be a multiuser cp/m of some kind. What does it look like? Any connectors which might be fast enough data paths for a shared-disk transfer? I have some old disks from my Superbrain, but don't at the moment have any way to read them. The sector size is too large for the BIOS of my SD-Systems boat anchor, and I never got a 5.25" drive to work convincingly with it, anyway. Maybe this will jog someone's memory on the _Compustar_. -- John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/EEEL, Atlanta, GA 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!jm59 Internet: jm59@prism.gatech.edu "f U cn rd dis, U mst uz Unix!!!" ...jaw ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 91 00:10:59 GMT From: world!bmarcum@uunet.uu.net (Bill Marcum) Subject: Re: Osborne Executive and external monitor Message-ID: In article <1991Dec10.030852.19502@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap) writes: >I've got one of these things. The screen is too small but there's an >external video socket labelled "composite video". What sort of monitor >do I need? Will a plain monochrome PC monitor do? I'm not familiar with the Osborne, but if it's really composite video, an IBM PC monitor won't work. A TV with audio/video inputs, or a VCR, or a Commodore 1702 monitor would work. ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V91 Issue #197 *************************************