2-Dec-92 01:48:27-MST,9061;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 2-Dec-92 01:46:57 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 2 Dec 92 01:46:56 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #139 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921202014656.V92N139@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 2 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 139 Today's Topics: Altos 5-5 Micro Solutions, UniForm and UniDOS Need system disks for TRS-80 Model 4P televideo 806/20 with ts TURBO DOS ********* Turbo Pascal FOR SALE (KAYPRO-II also) Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:09:30 GMT From: bobsbox.rent.com!spatula!azog@rutgers.edu (Billy D'Augustine) Subject: Altos 5-5 Message-ID: <1992Nov18.230930.7437@spatula.rent.com> Ive got an old 5-5 that seems to have a bad power supply. When I power it on, the floppy drive does this real nifty clicking noise, and the hard drive doesnt seem to spin up. I get nothing on the console. Does anyone happen to have prints of this power supply? Thanx -- Billy D'Augustine azog@spatula.rent.com No lord shall stand before myself. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 10:38 CST From: Dave Ulrick Subject: Micro Solutions, UniForm and UniDOS Having been inspired by a recent posting, and additionally being a resident of DeKalb, I visited Micro Solutions yesterday with my old UniForm and UniDOS disks in hand. I had purchased a Kaypro II from them back in '83 or '84, and later, when I bought a DOS machine, purchased UniForm and UniDOS. He had a bit of a problem upgrading my copy of UniForm, though--he said my original master disk was so old they weren't able to write to it! He also said that the Z80 interpreter mode of UniDOS is no longer supported, and mentioned something about a Z80 coprocessor board being their current supported method of CP/M emulation on DOS machines. To make a short story long, my new(er) versions of UniForm and UniDOS seem to work fine on DOS 5.0. I ran some programs directly from a Kaypro floppy with no problems (MBASIC, NSWEEP, and VDO). Turbo Pascal v2.0 "sort of" worked; the editor worked fine, and the compiler compiled MicroCalc, but the latter bombed with a run-time error when I tried to run it. Best of all, a couple of the compiled games included on the Kaypro II BASIC disk, LADDER and CATCHUM, worked quite nicely. My old BASIC programs worked fine, too. The speed (on a 386SX 25) was comparable to my old Kaypro II. Note that Turbo Pascal is the closest to a "heavy-duty" program that I've tried. I still have my Perfect Writer disks, but I haven't tried it yet. I've only run into one minor glitch with UniForm: it isn't aware that you might be using a LOADHI(GH) program to load it in CONFIG.SYS. If you do, and you try to run UINSTALL, it will claim that UniForm is not installed on your system, and proceed to add a (redundant) DEVICE= command to CONFIG.SYS. It's easy to trick it, though--keep a standard DEVICE=\path\UNIFORM.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS, but make it a REMark. When you want to run UINSTALL to change your configuration, or run UNIFORM.EXE to change disk formats, remember to uncomment this line beforehand. UNIFORM.SYS itself runs fine loaded high. Happily, both programs run fine under DESQview v2.40. This means that I can have a DESQview window with UniDOS loaded for running my CP/M programs. In fact, I should be able to run multiple UniDOS windows simultaneously. In conclusion, let me say that Micro Solutions *does* seem to have a sense of history. Right on the showroom floor it is easy to see a machine that looks almost exactly like my Kaypro II except that it is painted "KAYCOMP II". If I remember correctly this was the originalname of the Kaypro II (right?). One of the salesmen said they still use it from time to time. Dave (A01DGU1@NIU.BITNET; A01DGU1@MVS.NIU.EDU) ------------------------------ Date: 9 Nov 92 20:11:55 GMT From: korpela@rocket.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) Subject: Need system disks for TRS-80 Model 4P Message-ID: <1dmgmbINN1mt@agate.berkeley.edu> I've adopted another orphan. This time it's a TRS-80 Model 4P. Unfortunately, the system disks that I got with the machine are trashed. Therefore I'm looking for... A TRSDOS 6 boot disk (with appropriate utilities) for running in model 4 mode. An earlier TRSDOS boot disk (for running in Model 3 mode). and A CP/M system disk (with the transient commands) for running CP/M. I will, of course, pay media and shipping costs. Now if I could just find someone willing to sell me a Model 16 for the same price, my "orphan museum" would be off to a good start. Eric Korpela | The two most common things korpela@cea.berkeley.edu Internet | in the universe are BKYAST::KORPELA 42215::KORPELA DecNet | Hydrogen and stupidity. korpela%bkyast@ucbjade Bitnet | -Harlan Ellison ------------------------------ Date: 20 Nov 92 03:01:09 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![mark.wheeler%canrem.com]@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (mark wheeler) Subject: televideo 806/20 with ts Message-ID: <1992Nov19.4443.3178@dosgate> Willi, I have a TS806 with a TS800A. I don't bother using Mmmost with it. Instead, I just run it as a single-user system with CP/M-80. Actually, I run NZCOM, the automated Z-system product. Easiest way to attach the TSS800A to the TS806 and get it running is to use the RS232 connections. Connect a standard RS232 cable from the connection marked TERMINAL at the back of the TS806 to the connection marked P1(RS232) on the back of the TS800A. I won't talk about dipswitch settings on the TS800A, will assume whoever sold it to you left them at the correct settings. Once the connections are made, just power on both boxes. If the TS806 doesn't autoboot, push the little red reset button near the floppy drive. There are several very experienced TS806 users on this net; I'm sure you'll receive other replies! -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ Date: 9 Nov 92 05:10:51 GMT From: kerwin@acsu.buffalo.edu (John J. Kerwin) Subject: TURBO DOS ********* Message-ID: Has anyone heard of turbo dos for the CPM if you have please e-mail me i have a couple of question i would like to ask you jk ------------------------------ Date: 23 Nov 92 14:49:02 GMT From: voder!berlioz.nsc.com!rtodd@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ron Todd) Subject: Turbo Pascal FOR SALE (KAYPRO-II also) Message-ID: <1992Nov23.144902.15780@berlioz.nsc.com> FOR SALE! TURBO Pascal v.3.2 for CP/M KAYPRO-II format. Cleaning the attic: I have rescued my copy of TURBO Pascal from being sent to never-never-land. Asking $50 (UPS ground included). This is a a legal Alpha Systems edition. Manual is in small format looseleaf binder with tabs. My KAYPRO-II may still be available if anyone wants to offer me $150 else it is going to a good cause. Shipping (UPS ground) and "PERFECT" software included if you can get to me before the deed is done. These are two seperate offers, the KAYPRO will not be available after today (11-23-92). Ron Todd, K3FR work: (207) 761-6262 home: (207) 892-7712 snail: 7 Hillcrest Rd. Windham, ME 04062 ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #139 ************************************* 9-Dec-92 09:19:58-MST,10270;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 09:15:12 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #140 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921209091512.V92N140@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 9 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 140 Today's Topics: AMSTRAD CP/M LAPTOP apple lisa.... CPM system and more Re: Looking for Hard Drive for Epson QX-10 Re: Porting CP/M Re: Public domain software for CP/M+ vixen WordStar to Macintosh converter needed Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:12:49 GMT From: hsdndev!news.cs.umb.edu!edwardp@handies.ucar.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz) Subject: AMSTRAD CP/M LAPTOP Message-ID: <1992Nov21.001249.13696@cs.umb.edu> There was a message in this newsgroup the other day regarding an Amstrad CP/M laptop computer. Does anyone have any information on this computer? Or if it will be available in the United States? It doesn't look like CP/M is dead after all!!! Thanks. - Ed -- Internet: edwardp@cs.umb.edu - guest user - Member and Activist: The Boston Computer Society "activist": The BCS definition of the word "volunteer." ------------------------------ Date: 14 Nov 92 01:11:46 GMT From: channel1![richard.wyble%channel1.com]@uunet.uu.net (richard wyble) Subject: apple lisa.... Message-ID: <1992Nov13.1037.1218@channel1> >- I'm looking for any information which may be available for the >-or rather about the Apple Lisa, not to mention what kind of machine >-it is..... The Apple Lisa was, simplistically, a product ahead of its time. One might say that it was the first Macintosh. In fact, a number of them were sold in the late 1980's as a cheap machine which would run Mac software. I suggest that you seek a Macintosh forum in which to ask further questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard J. Wyble, Worcester, MA Internet: richard.wyble@channel1.com Written Fri, 11-13-92, at 5:37pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ~ DeLuxe} 1.25 #12515 ~ -- Channel 1 (R) Cambridge, MA ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 92 17:55:22 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!mlb.semi.harris.com!ZOO!rspangle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (RSpangler) Subject: CPM system and more Message-ID: <1992Dec4.175522.12346@mlb.semi.harris.com> Hello, I subscribed to this group because I use to be a moderate CPM user. The communication going on seemed quite interesting. For an OS that came out in the 70's, it has survived quite well. Now to the point, I have a DECMate 2 computer. This is a PDP-8 computer (uses a single VLSI chip instead of several boards) with an APU (auxillary processor unit) installed. This APU is a Z80 micro based card with 64 Kbytes of memory installed. This allows me to run CPM 2.2. My problem is that I cannot format disks. I have to buy them and they don't exist any more. DEC did funny things with this computer and did not provide all the utilities needed. I have tried to write a format routine but to no avail. The Z80 code offloads the disk functions to the PDP-8 which in turn controls the 8272 disk controller chip. If you have any help or maybe would like to buy/swap this computer let me know via email. ______________________________________________________________________________ Ralph L. Spangler INTERNET: rspangle@su19bb.ess.harris.com Harris Corporation Government Aerospace Systems Division Mail Stop: 19-4827 FAX: 407-727-4016 P.O. Box 94000 Pager: 407-690-9712 (Digital) Melbourne, Florida 32902 Voice: 407-727-5361 ______________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: 14 Nov 92 08:07:00 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu!9999sc01@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Alexandre Khalil) Subject: Re: Looking for Hard Drive for Epson QX-10 Message-ID: <14NOV199203070498@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu> In article <1992Nov13.193138.10565@nntpserver.chevron.com>, jsco@usmi02.midland.chevron.com (J. S. Comeaux) writes... >I hope someone can help Chris find a Hard drive. They do exist, but >I don't know where. 2 MB RAM disks also exist with Batter backup, >which is a good way to go. I still use the two-disk drive system. >Tomorrow I'll bring the address of the EPSON usre's group in >Pennsylvania. Hello Guys I have worked for a year and a half on QX-10 and 16 before leaving the school where I was teaching. At that time, I gave away 3 QX-10, 2 QX-16 2 20 Mb hard disks and all the original technical documentation. Had to do that as I was leaving the country and could not afford to take them along. In the US, I enquired about QXs for the good times sakes, and came up with those two addresses: Star Technology Corporation 900 Road 170 Carbondale, CO 81623 (303)963-1969 I found their prices much too high ( $679 for a 20 Mb, 65 ms hard disk ) SnyderScope International 1594 Hilltop Drive El Cajon, CA 92020-8227 (619)442-2299 SnyderScope was in the process of closing its QX interests in 1991, so I don't know if they might be of help. They might be kind and give you a few tips on how to hack a QX to MFM or RLL interface so that you can use a regular DOS drive. Happy hacking >John (no signature yet) alex khalil alex@dt.uh.edu U. of Houston-Downtown ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 92 05:35:00 GMT From: ucla-mic!unixg.ubc.ca!erich.triumf.ca!bomr@cs.ucla.edu (Rod Nussbaumer) Subject: Re: Porting CP/M Message-ID: <3DEC199221353076@erich.triumf.ca> In article <1992Dec4.004641.27595@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, sam2y@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven A. Moyer) writes... >I have a question for those of you who have put CP/M onto a homebrewed >machine. Unfortunately, our university library has only 1 text on >CP/M and it is pretty much fluff with only hints at the insides so I >haven't been able to work this out for myself. > I would recommend "The Programmer's CP/M Handbook" by Thom Hogan, if you can scare up a copy somewhere. I doubt seriously if it's been published recently, but it really deals with your exact problem. As an aside, Thom Hogan was the guy who wrote the BIOS for the Osborne machines. Have fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rod Nussbaumer, Programmer/Technologist Bitnet: BOMR@TRIUMFER TRIUMF --- University of British Columbia, Internet: bomr@erich.triumf.ca Vancouver, BC, Canada. Phone: (604)222-1047 ext 510 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: 20 Nov 92 20:45:00 GMT From: uchinews!lucpum.it.luc.edu!rdth2!pbricker@handies.ucar.edu (Preston Bricker) Subject: Re: Public domain software for CP/M+ Message-ID: <20NOV199214451383@rdth2> In article <1992Nov20.103005.7536@bradford.ac.uk>, M.E.Bullivant@bradford.ac.uk (Martin Bullivant) writes... >Is anyone could tell me of, or send me, any public domain software for CP/M+ or >CP/M 2.2 I would be very grateful. > >Cheers, > >Martin Bullivant. (M.E.Bullivant@uk.ac.bradford) > >-- >I'm a doctor, not a magician. > -- Dr. Pulaski, "The Royale", stardate 42625.4 Try SIMTEL or warchive pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu ------------------------------ Date: 7 Nov 92 17:44:23 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!unixbox!dosgate!dosgate![barry.ross%canrem.com]@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (barry ross) Subject: vixen Message-ID: <1992Nov7.4443.3112@dosgate> Have you got one for sale? If it is just sitting on a shelf collecting dust you may wish to sell it, before it de-values anymore. --- ~ DeLuxe} 1.12 #10554 ~ Now using Qmail DeLuxe}...and loving it! -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ Date: 02 Dec 1992 10:04:05 -0600 (CST) From: Arun Baheti Subject: WordStar to Macintosh converter needed I'm looking for a utility that can convert CP/M WordStar documents into some acceptable format for Microsoft Word on the Macintosh. Or is my best bet to convert from WS to WordPerfect for MS-DOS and then to Word? Suggestions welcomed. -ab abaheti@mac.cc.macalstr.edu ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #140 ************************************* 10-Dec-92 03:16:50-MST,9160;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 03:15:16 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #141 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921210031516.V92N141@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Thu, 10 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 141 Today's Topics: Amstrad Z-80 laptop. CP/M system and more Re: AMSTRAD Laptop Re: I got a new one! Re: Porting CP/M Re: WordStar to Macintosh converter needed (2 msgs) Z80 Calendar/Clock Boards Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Dec 92 00:07:35 GMT From: hsdndev!news.cs.umb.edu!edwardp@g.ms.uky.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz) Subject: Amstrad Z-80 laptop. Message-ID: <1992Dec6.000735.15374@cs.umb.edu> A couple of weeks ago, someone posted an article to this newsgroup regarding an Amstrad laptop computer with a Z-80 chip in it. Does anyone know if Amstrad is really coming out with such a model? I tried to locate Amstrad on Internet, and they are not. Thanks. - Ed -- Internet: edwardp@cs.umb.edu - guest user - Boston Computer Society Activist volunteer n. The BCS definition of the word "activist." ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 92 21:29:05 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!ncr-sd!crash!donm@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Don Maslin) Subject: CP/M system and more Message-ID: <1992Dec05.132905.7862@crash> f you have access to a PC with an appropriate floppy drive, you might get a copy of Sydex AnaDisk program and use its Copy function to duplicate an already formatted - but blank - disk. The registration fee is quite reasonable, and will be soon paid by using generic floppies. - don ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 10:33:25 IST From: "Jacques J. Goldberg" Subject: Re: AMSTRAD Laptop There must be a misunderstanding. You probably refer to the AMSTRAD PPC-640 or PPC-512, a MessDoss PORTABLE, not Laptop, not CP/M. It's essentially an XT clone, with 512 or 640 K RAM, one or two 3in1/2 diskettes (720k capacity each), a 2400 bauds modem with the PPC 640, a hardly tolerable display which needs light in your back, and a 10 (is it 8 ?) MHz 8086 processor. There is a 8087 socket, and connectors for an external printer, display (CGA or mono), a serial port and a complete XT-bus extension. Some outlets used to offer an external hard disk. It runs from an external power supply or 10 1.5 volt alkaline batteries. Its volume/weight is 2-3 times a laptop, the only advantage is that you have a full size 101 keys keyboard with desktop layout. I used it in trains (fresh batteries held 2/3 of the 3h30 trips Paris<-->Geneva only), but too large in a plane. Bottom line, if somebody wants to purchase mine...(640k, 2 drives). Jacques Goldberg - phr00jg@technion.technion.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: 2 Dec 92 07:09:23 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!cunews!revcan!cerianthus!pinetree!garth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (garth jones) Subject: Re: I got a new one! Message-ID: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady) writes: > Ian Cottrell in Ottawa (Canada) used to produce a periodic listing of CP/M > board (or boards that offer CP/M files). I haven't seen one of those > for a while ... perhaps if he's still at it and he sees this he might be > persuaded to post the most recent one. > Ian still produces RCPM lists. If Ian's doesn't post a list soon I will post it for you. --G P.S. I don't think that Ian has InterNet access any more. P.S.S. Remind me if you don't see the list in the next day or so. -- Internet: garth@pinetree.org (garth jones) UUCP: pinetree!garth Gordon's Pinetree -- Ottawa, ON, Canada -- +1 613 526 0702 -- v.32bis/v.42bis ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 92 04:15:14 GMT From: crash!cwr@nosc.mil (Will Rose) Subject: Re: Porting CP/M Message-ID: <1992Dec04.201514.7782@crash> Rod Nussbaumer (bomr@erich.triumf.ca) wrote: : In article <1992Dec4.004641.27595@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, sam2y@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven A. Moyer) writes... : >I have a question for those of you who have put CP/M onto a homebrewed : >machine. Unfortunately, our university library has only 1 text on : >CP/M and it is pretty much fluff with only hints at the insides so I : >haven't been able to work this out for myself. : > : I would recommend "The Programmer's CP/M Handbook" by Thom Hogan, : if you can scare up a copy somewhere. I doubt seriously if it's : been published recently, but it really deals with your exact : problem. As an aside, Thom Hogan was the guy who wrote the BIOS : for the Osborne machines. : Have fun. That's the book I would chose, but my copy is by Andy Johnson Laird. Thom Hogan wrote the other essential CP/M book, the Osborne CP/M User Guide. Both were published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. Will cwr@crash.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 92 21:53:58 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.unomaha.edu!cwis.unomaha.edu!haworth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dwight A. Haworth) Subject: Re: WordStar to Macintosh converter needed Message-ID: <1992Dec4.215358.28607@news.unomaha.edu> The Software Bridge product allows conversion from Wordstar 3.3 to Microsoft Word. The storage format is of course another issue. Wordstar 6.0 also supports Wordstar to MS Word conversion in the Convert program that is supplied. I don't have any information on a product that would convert CP/M disks to a Mac format disk. Not much help, I'm afraid; but maybe it will give you a starting point. Dwight Haworth haworth@cwis.unomaha.edu ------------------------------ Date: 6 Dec 92 15:59:23 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!marie!georg@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Georg Schwarz) Subject: Re: WordStar to Macintosh converter needed Message-ID: <1ft80rINNcte@mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE> In <1992Dec4.215358.28607@news.unomaha.edu> haworth@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dwight A. Haworth) writes: >I don't have any information on a product that would convert CP/M disks to >a Mac format disk. Try using an MSDOS PC and a Mac with a superdrive as a bridge. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 92 04:14:03 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us!adp@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Percy) Subject: Z80 Calendar/Clock Boards Message-ID: <1992Dec10.041403.21254@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us> I realize this is a fairly quiet place lately, but I thought what I found in my basement the other day would be interesting to some of you. I used to make and sell the Ztime-I calendar/clock board for Z80 based computers. The board adds a battery backed clock chip to almost any Z80 computer. The board is a daughter card that goes under the CPU. Anyway, I found a few spare circuit boards in a box the other day. Needless to say they haven't been selling like hot-cake for the last five years. If anyone is interested in these things, drop me a note or give me a call. They are just taking up space that newer junk sorely needs. 716-662-8583 -- A nanosecond here, a nanosecond there, next think you know... you have Real-Time!!! Alan Percy.................adp@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us rutgers!ub!nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us!adp ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #141 ************************************* 11-Dec-92 08:49:36-MST,10275;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 08:45:45 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #142 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921211084545.V92N142@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Fri, 11 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 142 Today's Topics: HD controller for Z80 ??? Here Yet ?? IMPORTANT for sale posting Lisp, Scheme Looking for "Z80" for DECMate II Re: HD controller for Z80 ??? ZSIM 2.0 Z80 Simulator uploaded to SIMTEL Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. 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Used is fine too ... -- Name : Marko Kentt{l{ E-Mail : kent@cc.tut.fi, kent@ee.tut.fi, MK102142@rapola.cc.tut.fi Address : Paununkatu 5 33700 Tampere Finland Phone : +318-31-560467 ------------------------------ Date: 6 Dec 92 13:52:32 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!tghost!f-454!Usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Blake Scruggs) Subject: Here Yet ?? Message-ID: <723671459.AA00245@f-454.fidonet.org> Hi Ismael, (Hoping you're here) If so please respond, \\\ Space City Houston and Stafford: blake!blkbox.com:PMTown ------------------------------ Date: 6 Dec 92 22:17:49 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!ephillip%magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Earl W Phillips) Subject: IMPORTANT for sale posting Message-ID: Well, to me anyway! *** FOR SALE *** Complete Xerox 820-II CP?M system system includes: Xerox 820-II CP/M system, running a flavor of ZCP/M. ZCP/M makes it easy to run CP/M-OS. Includes 10 meg harddrive; single floppy drive. 8" floppy disks are DSDD 980k. You also get every manual written for the 820-II, including tech manuals. Also, every imaginable piece of CP/M software that'll run on this system (I spent more than 2 years amassing CP/M software, including d/l'ing everything then on Simtel!) as well as doc's for most all the software. Also includes a Decwriter IV serial printer/typewriter; plus a specially-built cable & doc's to allow you to hook up the faster parallel printers. Also includes a Practical Peripherals 1200 baud external modem w/manual. All necessary cables. Everything in very good working order (I'm on it right now, in fact) * WHEN SHIPPED *. I make that disclaimer cause I refuse to guarantee UPS' ability to do anything right. Best offer gets it, including shipping, which w/be a lot of boxes. Figure 1 each for CPU, disk drive, printer; plus 3 or 4 boxes (at least) for all the software anf manuals & doc's. Please reply soon, I need the room. My apartment no longer has enough room for all my equipment (I'm also running 4 dos systems). Reply email to:ephillip@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu or voice 614-764-0476, or snail E. Phillips, 7893 Thornfield Lane, Cols, Oh 43235. *Sniff* :( ***************************************************************** * | ====@==== ///////// * * ephillip@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu| ``________// * * | `------' * * -JR- | Space;........the final * * | frontier............... * ***************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 92 17:15:23 GMT From: agate!biosci!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!uni-erlangen.de!cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!ksweber@ucbvax.Berkeley (Klaus Weber) Subject: Lisp, Scheme Message-ID: <1g7tvbEINNt6n@uni-erlangen.de> Hi to all of you out of Erlangen! I am the owner of a Amstrad CPC 6128 with 1Mb Ramdisk. On this system I am running CP/M 3.0 and CP/M 2.2 since several years. But now i'm going to study some computer science at the university of Erlangen-Nuerenberg/Germany. Therefor I need the programming language scheme, for doing the exercises at home. Is there any scheme-interpreter for my two CP/M systems? Please write your hopefully lots of answers to the following EMail adress: ksweber@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 92 22:25:08 GMT From: psinntp!pbs.org!djohnston@uunet.uu.net Subject: Looking for "Z80" for DECMate II Message-ID: <1992Dec4.172508.19295@pbs.org> Would anyone know where I might be able to pick up a Z80 Card for a Digital Equipment Corp DECMate II? I have access to a DECMate II and CPM software but the software all requires the Z80. I'd love to see this machine do more than run WPS Word Processing software. Any pointers would be appreciated! -- * Dave Johnston, PBS "Cheers!" * * * * * * djohnston@pbs.org * | Disclaimer: "The right to be heard does not automatically include the | | right to be taken seriously..." - Hubert H. Humphrey, 1965 | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 92 13:56:22 GMT From: prism!jm59@gatech.edu (MILLS,JOHN M.) Subject: Re: HD controller for Z80 ??? Message-ID: <77963@hydra.gatech.EDU> In article <1992Dec10.115013.18326@cc.tut.fi> kent@cc.tut.fi (Kentt{l{ Marko) writes: > >I could really use hard disk controller for my trusty old Z80 machine. Are >any of these beasts that connect directly to Z80 or its bus still available ? >Used is fine too ... Many years ago, BYTE published a two-article series showing how to build a simple SCSI host adapter for S-100. The second article gave an outline of driver software. The host adapter was little more than a parallel port and addressing logic, since the disk drive's control was quite autonomous. Did anyone out there follow this up, and would it be worth re-doing? (I could dig out the article, but my BYTEs are at home, and this was probably c.1981.) How about a modern redux with IDE? Those drives are pretty good value now, and the interface is probably dirt-simple. (I'm just a simple M.E., so I may be deluding myself here.) BTW, anyone want to dicker for 180+ old issues of BYTE? Includes No.1 and most of the first 10 years, but sadly I've lost No.2 and a few others. (List on request) This is a genuine offer, but we're talking serious kilograms here! I haven't figured the best way to offer them, and I'm afraid my attic will cave in! [;->) Regards --jmm-- -- John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/TSDL, Atlanta, GA 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!jm59 Internet: jm59@prism.gatech.edu ... Not so fast -- I'm still thinking. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 92 13:12:49 GMT From: mcsun!Germany.EU.net!ira.uka.de!news.belwue.de!ifi!news@uunet.uu.net (Weber) Subject: ZSIM 2.0 Z80 Simulator uploaded to SIMTEL Message-ID: <1992Dec10.131249.18269@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: pd1: ZSIM20.ZIP Z80 emulator + CP/M 80 bios to RUN CP/M ZSIM is an (extremely accurate) Z80 emulator (80386/40 -> 8 MHz Z80) in conjunction with a CP/M 80 bios, i.e. it simulates a Z80 machine, that can run CP/M. Together with the original CP/M operating system you have a full Z80-CP/M machine. If you don't have a CP/M system disc at hand, you can use the included public domain CP/M compatible operating system SUPERDOS. ZSIM uses CP/M format discs and a ramdisc. Supported disc formats are CP/M 86 single sided and double sided, but you can install any CP/M format PC drives can physically read. So you can use ZSIM to transfer data to MS-Dos. The ramdisc can be saved to the PC harddisc. A sample ramdisc containing the SMALL-C compiler is included. As ZSIM uses an original operating system and CP/M discs it should run every CP/M program that does not use special hardware. All software I could test ran. ZSIM is free for personal use. Sources of the CP/M bios are included. NEW IN VERSION 2.0: * emulation is 20 % faster * Z80 interrupt handling fully emulated * a powerful utility to transfer data from CP/M to MS-Dos included * IOByte support, so you can access your serial port * the z80 emulation can be linked to your own programs with C interface -- Juergen G. Weber Student am Institut fuer Informatik Universitaet Stuttgart - Germany ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #142 ************************************* 12-Dec-92 10:45:38-MST,10038;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 10:45:19 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #143 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921212104519.V92N143@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 12 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 143 Today's Topics: Kaypro II (2 msgs) Osborne Exec. System needed! Porting CP/M Re: HD controller for Z80 ??? VT100 comm package wanted Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 7 Dec 92 21:28:20 GMT From: reynaert@arizona.edu (Jim B. Reynaert) Subject: Kaypro II Message-ID: <27707@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Hello there! I am currently looking for a powerful C Compiler, any suggestions? I would like to be able to compile simple files that I have originally written for unix's GCC compiler and run them on my Kaypro II. Perhaps CODE WORKS C compiler would help but I don't know where to get it... I appreciate your help in advance. If you have any solutions to my problem please send me e-mail. Thank you, Jim. ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 92 21:37:07 GMT From: reynaert@arizona.edu (Jim B. Reynaert) Subject: Kaypro II Message-ID: <27709@optima.cs.arizona.edu> I have benn having problems with my communications when I use an external modem at 2400 BPS, Some characters are lost while the comunication is going on. This only happens when there is output to my adm3a screen. Curiously, this doesn't happen at 1200 BPS or less. Also I have down loaded files at 2400 BPS and no data has been lost... It would be nice for me to be able to communicate at 2400 BPS without having to guess what the output to the screen was ex... instead of more it writes "me" or instead of password it types "psswd", I would like to know if somebody out there has or had the same problem and if so how did you fix it. Is it probably a bad Microchi? And if so which one? I appreciate any help that I can get, thank you in advance Jim. P.D. please send e-mail... ------------------------------ Date: 7 Dec 92 20:39:45 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!west.West.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!seven-up.East.Sun.COM!castlerock!hans@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Hans Hrasna) Subject: Osborne Exec. System needed! Message-ID: <1g0cqjINN7rv@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> Greets CP/M folks... I bought a broken Osborne Exec and finally fixed it last weekend... problem is I don't have the software for it... I have one disk that boots CP/M 3.0 so I know the thing works well, but the rest of that disk is supercalc files... I can't even make another system disk!! Can anyone out there help me out? -Hans ------------------------------ Date: 4 Dec 92 00:46:41 GMT From: concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU!sam2y@gatech.edu (Steven A. Moyer) Subject: Porting CP/M Message-ID: <1992Dec4.004641.27595@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> I have a question for those of you who have put CP/M onto a homebrewed machine. Unfortunately, our university library has only 1 text on CP/M and it is pretty much fluff with only hints at the insides so I haven't been able to work this out for myself. Apparently older peripherals, circa mid to late '70s, had less of a standard logical interface than those currently in use. Thus, BIOS was generally not found in ROM (since this would only fit a given manufactures combination of peripherals) and most folks rolled their own. This, anyways, is the claim of the text that I have. While writing a device driver is no big deal, just tedious, it seems that most people back then putting together a motherboard from here and a disk driver from there, etc., were faced with a real 'chicken and egg' problem. Developing device drivers is all well and good when you have a system to do it on, but you didn't have a system until you had a bootable disk with the correct drivers. So, what piece of the puzzle has my lack of adequate information left me without? How did those of you who put together your own system back then handle this problem? I'm curious because I'm putting together an old IMSAI as a 'just for fun' project and I would like to get CP/M running on it. I suppose I could whip up an emulator for the IMSAI and my particular combination of peripherals and get a floppy for the IMSAI compatible with my usual machine so that I could get CP/M running and build a bootable diskette, but this seems somewhat round about. I'd like suggestions from others who have put one of these systems together before. (other than to get a decent manual, I'm working on that ;-) Thanks, Steve PS To those who replied with s-100 stuff for sale (from postings in other groups): thanks! I'm getting around to answering everyone, but it was quite a flood of mail. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Moyer | THIS SPACE FOR RENT | | Computer Science Department | | | University of Virginia | | ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 92 23:49:50 GMT From: europa.asd.contel.com!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!naos!ewen@gatech.edu (Ewen McNeill) Subject: Re: HD controller for Z80 ??? Message-ID: jm59@prism.gatech.EDU (MILLS,JOHN M.) writes: > In article <1992Dec10.115013.18326@cc.tut.fi> kent@cc.tut.fi (Kentt{l{ Marko) > >I could really use hard disk controller for my trusty old Z80 machine. Are > >any of these beasts that connect directly to Z80 or its bus still available > >Used is fine too ... > Many years ago, BYTE published a two-article series showing how to build a > simple SCSI host adapter for S-100. The second article gave an outline of > driver software. The host adapter was little more than a parallel port and > addressing logic, since the disk drive's control was quite autonomous. Much more recently (Jan/Feb 1991) TCJ (The Computer Journal) published an article on how to build a very simple SCSI port. It was just a 8255, and some decoding logic. The handshaking was mostly done in software, except for the ACK signal which was generated by a flip-flop. I've had a quick hack board made from this circuit running on my Z80 machine for the past 15 months without any problems. Transfer speed is limited to whatever you can persuade your machine to do in software - about 45K/s for my 4 Mhz 1WS Amstrad. I've been talking about adding DMA support to it for a while. I might have a go at it over the Christmas break. > How about a modern redux with IDE? Those drives are pretty good value now, > and the interface is probably dirt-simple. (I'm just a simple M.E., so I This was done even more recently in TCJ (Jun/Jul 1992 I think). It mostly just turned a single 8 bit port into a 16 bit port by multiplexing. It apparently works quite well. It was connected to a board based on a 16Mhz Z280, and I think it used the built in DMA, so transfer speed would have been good. There was some software (basic) with it too. > John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/TSDL, Atlanta, GA 30332 -- Ewen McNeill, ewen@naos.actrix.gen.nz (or ewen@actrix.gen.nz) ------------------------------ Date: 12 Dec 92 01:47:46 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bv548@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (David S Weitermann) Subject: VT100 comm package wanted Message-ID: <1gbgc2INN8ai@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can perform minimally VT100 emulation? I'm in need of one to connect to our schools mainframe. Thanks. dave weitermann bv548@freenet.cwru.edu weitermann@admin.ripon.edu weitermannd@acad.ripon.edu -- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:26:32 EST From: WEKOST%ERS.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU get zsim20.zip ==========- William E. Kost 202-219-0610 \: _____ :\\ Asia & Pacific Rim Branch 202-219-0759 (FAX) : : ) : : \\ Agri. & Trade Analysis Div. WEKOST@ERS.BITNET : : : : : Economic Research Service, USDA : : .: : : 1301 New York Avenue NW . : : : : : Washington DC 20005-4788 . :_:___:_:/ ____ : __nn__ ________ ________ ________ ____ :_:____U :____:-:______:-:______:-:______:-:___\-:_______) oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo ooOOOOoo\ ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #143 ************************************* 14-Dec-92 19:35:07-MST,9360;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 14-Dec-92 19:22:17 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 19:22:17 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #144 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921214192217.V92N144@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 14 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 144 Today's Topics: For Sale: Running CP/M 2.2 S-100 System More on the Ztime-I Calendar/Clock Re: Porting CP/M Re: VT100 comm package wanted vt100 comm package wa vt100 comm package wanted Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Dec 92 21:16:42 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!news.dell.com!fisher.com!turtle.fisher.com!mwebb@uunet.uu.net Subject: For Sale: Running CP/M 2.2 S-100 System Message-ID: <1992Dec11.161642.147@turtle.fisher.com> It's time for me to make space for a new generation of computers, so I have to part with my old reliable, easy to understand, 8-bit computer. I'm asking $300 for all of it, including the CP/M texts and the BYTE, MicroSystems Journal, and S-100 magazines. I'd like to sell it all as a unit, but will consider parting it out after a few weeks if no reasonable offers are received. It is currently plugged in and running with no known problems. HARDWARE California Computer Systems 2810 Z-80 CPU - 4/8 Mhz California Computer Systems 2422 Floppy Disk Controller IBM 3740 & system 34 standard compatible Shugart or PerSci drive bus CP/M 128, 256, 512, or 1024 bytes/sector 4 drives, any combination, single/double sided/density 8" / 5 1/4" 2k bootstrap California Computer Systems 2719 2-parallel, 2-serial I/O serial - Z-80 DART, RS-232c to 115.2k baud parallel - 6821 PIA, Centronics, 3 interrupt modes unidirectional 8-bit with handshake or 16 bit w/o handshake California Computer Systems 2066 64k dynamic memory bankable, 4 - 16k blocks, 4116 200ns memory 2 - Qume DataTrak 8 - 8" disk drive, DS/DD (1 meg) 1 - Tandon 100-2 - 5 1/4 " disk drive, DS/DD Integrand 1100 S-100 cabinet, 10 slot card cage & power supply Freedom 100 terminal - 110 - 19.2k baud emulation - Hazeltine 1420, Televideo 910, Adds Regent 25, ADM 3A/5, Freedom 100 All hardware manuals SOFTWARE Operating System - CP/M 2.2, with extensions from CCS for disk formats Word Processing, Database, Spreadsheet Wordstar 3.3 / Mailmerge / Spellstar / Reportstar / Indexstar Calcstar, SuperCalc, DBASE II Data Translation / Transfer Compat Multimedia Disk Transfer, MEX modem softare, Crosstalk Software Development BD "C", Turbo Pascal, Digital Research Pascal MT+, Microsoft Macro-80, Link-80, Lib-80, MAC, ASMB SYSLIB M80, L80, Debug, MBASIC, CBASIC II, Forth-83 miscellaneous games, utilities, and etc. on approx. total 75 8" floppies, Several boxes of software manuals, books, and magazines --------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Webb --- Fisher*Rosemount Systems Div. --- Austin, TX mwebb@turtle.fisher.com --- (512) 834-7049 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 14 Dec 92 03:32:17 GMT From: cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us!adp@g.ms.uky.edu (Alan Percy) Subject: More on the Ztime-I Calendar/Clock Message-ID: <1992Dec14.033217.13185@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us> I guess I woke some of you old die-hard Z80 folk up with my posting on my left-over Ztime-I calendar/clocks. If I don't reply individually, it's because I was swamped with requests on information. (for you folks that sounded desparate, you should have gotten a call or Email) Anyway, here's the scoop: I have 15 bare circuit boards left for the Ztime-I. The features of the Ztime-I are: - Under Z80 CPU installation - Adds 32 I/O ports that provide the date/time in BCD - Maintains time from "coin" battery. - Simple to build from good/detailed instructions. - Complete driver software to set/get time from chip in C, Pascal, and Basic. - All parts can be ordered from DigiKey. If you send me a check for $15 a board, I'll send you a bare circuit card, a copy of the manual, and a 5 1/4" disk with the driver software. If all you need is a bare board, then the price is $10/board. This includes shipping to North America. I hope this answers all your questions. I also beg for forgiveness from any of you that hate commercial "Exploitation" of Usenet. Alan Percy 61 Hawthore Dr. Orchard Park, NY 14127 -- A nanosecond here, a nanosecond there, next think you know... you have Real-Time!!! Alan Percy.................adp@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us rutgers!ub!nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us!adp ------------------------------ Date: 8 Dec 92 13:39:20 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!news.belwue.de!ifi!news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Weber) Subject: Re: Porting CP/M Message-ID: <1992Dec8.133920.23957@ifi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> In article <1992Dec4.004641.27595@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> sam2y@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Steven A. Moyer) writes: ... > >I'm curious because I'm putting together an old IMSAI as a 'just for fun' >project and I would like to get CP/M running on it. I suppose I could >whip up an emulator for the IMSAI and my particular combination of peripherals >and get a floppy for the IMSAI compatible with my usual machine so that >I could get CP/M running and build a bootable diskette, but this seems >somewhat round about. If you've got an IBM clone and if the IMSAI uses double densitiy 5,25" discs you can use the ZSIM Z80 Emulator from SIMTEL. It can boot and run the original CP/M from a CP/M disc. -- Juergen G. Weber Student am Institut fuer Informatik Universitaet Stuttgart - Germany ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 92 17:31:51 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!asuacad!cxkpv@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: VT100 comm package wanted Message-ID: <92348.103151CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> While were in the subject, does anyone know of a vt100 communications program t hat supports keyboard mapping? ------------------------------ Date: 12 Dec 92 23:01:08 GMT From: saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![larry.moore%canrem.com]@ames.arc.nasa.gov (larry moore) Subject: vt100 comm package wa Message-ID: <199212.4443.3253@dosgate> Dave Weitermann, in message <1gbgc2INN8ai@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, asks: DW> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can > perform minimally VT100 emulation? I'm in need of one to connect > to our schools mainframe. Thanks. >dave weitermann >bv548@freenet.cwru.edu >weitermann@admin.ripon.edu >weitermannd@acad.ripon.edu (wet!pallio!dg) David Goodenough's qterm.com does a quite creditable VT100 emulation. | {canrem, dciem}!lfergus!larry | Nanet CP/M conference chair person. | | CP/M UUCP/mail(using David Goodenough's uucp21b on a TeleVideo 803H) | -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 92 00:27:53 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![blair.groves%canrem.com]@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (blair groves) Subject: vt100 comm package wanted Message-ID: <199212.4443.3255@dosgate> -> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can -> perform minimally VT100 emulation? I'm in need of one to connect to -> our schools mainframe. Thanks. Try David Goodenough's QTERM. It does VT-100, and supports transfer protocols including Kermit and XModem. blair.groves@canrem.com -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #144 ************************************* 20-Dec-92 07:17:02-MST,11339;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 07:15:25 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #145 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921220071525.V92N145@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 20 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 145 Today's Topics: Need info: TRS-80/II and S-100 Turbodos PC/Blue Printers; and PCBLUE qt-term disk or uuencode for Morrow (MD-11) needed Re: Kaypro II Video Problem TCJ HD controller article z-80 Fortran Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. 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If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 17 Dec 92 13:48:22 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!gmd.de!jvnc.net!erenj.com!bdboyle@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Bryan D. Boyle) Subject: Need info: TRS-80/II and S-100 Turbodos Message-ID: <1992Dec17.134822.988@erenj.com> Being an old afficianado of TurboDOS, I would like to know if anyone on the net has a legal copy that they would like to sell. I know that it was configged for a wide range of systems from California Computer to IMS, as well as the TRS80/II. Now, I realize that we are talking about a system that is over 10 years old, but I do have a use for the mod II, and do have both a ccs s-100 system (64K, 2 rs232 i/o, 1 centronics parallel, DG D410 terminal and quantum 40mb fixed disk) and am in the process of obtaining another s100 system for hacking around...any info or direction would be greatly appreciated. -- Bryan D. Boyle |Exxon doesn't pay me to voice their opinions... Senior Engineer |Semper ubi sub ubi. bdboyle@erenj.com |On a clear day, you can see forever on the Net... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:50 MST From: "Frank J. Wancho" Subject: PC/Blue Message-ID: Mark, The PC/Blue collection started out as a collection of CP/M programs that were converted to run on the early IBM PCs. This was at the time the IBM PCs had just come out on the market and there was little to no software, either public domain or commercial to run on them. Because most of the CP/M programs were written in an assembly language, such as M80 or ASM, to fit within a max 56K address space, conversion initially meant running the source code through an ASM-80 to ASM-86 translator. The results were mostly usable, but far from efficient. That inefficiency spawned a small market in Baby Blue cards, which, as I recall, were single slot Z80 computers designed to run in an IBM PC machine. You could run your CP/M programs full tilt, usually much faster than the translated version. This resulted in the temporary impression that the native IBM PC (at 4.77MHz) was much slower that its Z80/Z80H counterparts, and, they were, until programs written in native ASM-86 were developed, specially designed to take full advantage of the 8088/8086 architecture. The PC/Blue collection then became THE vehicle for the distribution of public domain and the new category of shareware (also called begware by dyed-in-the-wool CP/Mers who would never think of asking for money for their masterpieces). Nonetheless, the PC/Blue name stuck, in spite of the fact that it went far beyond its original purpose. For those of you who still remember, the PC/Blue collection was originally available on the net from SIMTEL20, going back to 1983. It was removed at a time when we were severely short on disk space and preferred to devote the space to the ever expanding MSDOS collection. Besides, the PC/Blue collection had grown to over 600 volumes, with a large percentage of newer and newer versions of previously released packages (witness the modem programs "wars"). In other words, a lot of self-duplication, and redundancy with the MSDOS collection, which had the policy of keeping only the latest versions of much of the same software packages. (Also, the MSDOS collection was usually several months ahead of the PC/Blue releases, which suffered severe latencies due to daisy-chain surface mail and copying delays at each link. By the time we got disk space elbow room, we had to remove the "entertainment" (games) as a matter of policy and stick to carrying only the justifiable packages. Because the PC/Blue collection contained "games" and because we would only carry canned packages as-is, we did not restore the PC/Blue collection to online status, deferring to the mirror sites. --Frank ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:33 EDT From: Mark Tarka Subject: Printers; and PCBLUE Message-ID: <921216113357.TARKA10@BUFVA.BITNET> Two questions. 1. I have two line-printers from an old Mohawk Data Sciences computing system. Both self-test OK, but I can't find the correct communications protocol to make the connection between my Digital Rainbow and the first, and can't even find where to attach the data cable on the second. (i) Mfgr: QUANTEL (Hayward, CA) Mod. No.: 5129 (ii) TERMINET Mfgr.: General Electric (Waynesboro, VA) Mod. No. 383400YB0009A1 I need to know if these are serial or parallel, and how to set-up communications. 2. Just as a general question, what is PCBLUE? I have a listing of available software from Oakland.Edu. I've sort of got the idea that the programs were derived from software written for say an IBM, but will work on any system with the appropriate CPU (something about hardware addresses being different); there was a brief statement in conversation or reading associated with the Rainbow, that it had the capability to read IBM disks, but was otherwise incompatable with IBM and its clones. Any information on either or both of these topics would be appreciated. Mark Tarka Chemistry Dept.;Buffalo State College; 1300 Elmwood Ave.; Buffalo, NY, 14222-1095; USA. (716)878-6686. TARKA10@SNYBSCVA ------------------------------ Date: 15 Dec 92 04:11:30 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!gateway@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: qt-term disk or uuencode for Morrow (MD-11) needed Message-ID: <9212150413.AA08269@pepvax.pepperdine.edu> Does anyone have qterm set up for a Morrow? Would you contact me, so I can set it up for our Assoc. Dean? He'll send you a letter of thanks when he gets it going, so that he can read his e-mail. USnail: Kim Cary GSEP - Pepperdine 400 Corporate Pointe Culver City, CA 90230 e-mail: Kim Cary, GSEP Systems Support, Pepperdine University ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:34:09 -0500 From: Jay Sage Subject: Re: Kaypro II Video Problem Message-ID: <9212151234.AA10247@LL.MIT.EDU> Several attempts to reply directly to "reynaert@arizona.edu" have failed with a "user unknown" message from the host, so I will post my response here. >> I have benn having problems with my communications when I use an external >> modem at 2400 BPS, Some characters are lost while the comunication is >> going on. This only happens when there is output to my adm3a screen. >> Curiously, this doesn't happen at 1200 BPS or less. Also I have down >> loaded files at 2400 BPS and no data has been lost... This is a very well known problem with Kaypro computers. It is the result of a poor design of the video display. When a new line must be created at the bottom of the screen and the existing lines have to be scrolled up, the system takes so long that incoming characters are lost. I don't use a Kaypro myself, but many friends do. There is a file that implements a correction to this (I can't remember exactly what it does or how it does it). A common work around is to clear the screen every time it fills up and to start again from the top. If you don't get more specific advice from others who reply to you, get back to me and I will try to dig up that file for you. It is posted on my BBS system, which is sponsored by the former Kaypro User Group of the Boston Computer Society (now broadened to include all CP/M and MS-DOS computers). In case you are a BBSer, its phone number is 617-965-7046. This reaches first a v.32bis modem and, if that one is busy, a USR Courier HST on line 2 (alternatively reachable directly at 617-965-7785). -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: 16 Dec 92 11:35:57 GMT From: mcsun!news.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!kent@uunet.uu.net (Kentt{l{ Marko) Subject: TCJ HD controller article Message-ID: <1992Dec16.113557.20514@cc.tut.fi> Are any of you guys out there able to scan or something the article about IDE HD controllers in The Computer Journal 48 Jan/Feb 1991 and email it to me or post to this group so that we back here in Europe could get that article too ? Thanks anyway, -- Name : Marko Kentt{l{ E-Mail : kent@cc.tut.fi, kent@ee.tut.fi, MK102142@rapola.cc.tut.fi Address : Paununkatu 5 33700 Tampere Finland Phone : +318-31-560467 ------------------------------ Date: 18 Dec 92 03:53:28 GMT From: europa.asd.contel.com!emory!utkcs2!jfarmer@uunet.uu.net (SUSAN FARMER) Subject: z-80 Fortran Message-ID: <1grhvoINNfmq@CS.UTK.EDU> I want to get Fortran for my Kaypro (*including* manuals). Will pay shipping. Barring that, could someone tell me hou to *use* Nevada Fortran? I inherited a copy (with *no* docs) when I purchased a used machine. Thanks Susan The news server on the machine my wife uses is broken soshe asked me to post this for her. Please reply to her (farmer@cs.utk.edu). Thanks John T. -- John T. Farmer, Jr. jfarmer@cs.utk.edu Full-time Daddy, Part-time Grad Student, Full-time wage slave, Wood butcher when I can. ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #145 ************************************* 21-Dec-92 02:18:38-MST,12989;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 02:15:35 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #146 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921221021535.V92N146@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 21 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 146 Today's Topics: Kaypro Parts Available MORE ON THE ZTIME-I CALEN Re: Kaypro II Video Problem (2 msgs) SmallC 2.1 Z80 FORTRAN Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPIECS. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPIECS if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 23:38:06 -0500 From: Jay Sage Subject: Kaypro Parts Available Message-ID: <9212202338.AA15640@LL.MIT.EDU> My user group at the Boston Computer Society has collected a number of Kaypro computers, some in excellent working condition and some no longer working. The latter will be offered for parts. If you are looking for items such as keyboards, motherboards, cathode ray tubes, K10 hard disks, mechanical hardware, and so on, make me an offer. I would really like to see the things put to good use rather than given to the trash collectors. I also have several sets of manuals and various software items. There is too much stuff for me to catalog; if you think I might have an item you could use, ask and/or make an offer, and I will see if I have it. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:02:00 -0500 From: greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org (Greg Vigneault) Subject: MORE ON THE ZTIME-I CALEN Message-ID: <435.540.uupcb@bville.gts.org> In message-ID <1992Dec14.033217.13185@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us> adp@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us (Alan Percy) writes... AP> I have 15 bare circuit boards left for the Ztime-I. The features > of the Ztime-I are: If this is a single-sided board, would you consider photocopying it, and offering it along with instructions, software, etc. ? Greg Vigneault Dec.20.1992.Toronto.Canada. greg.vigneault@bville.gts.org ------------------------------ Date: 20 Dec 92 22:02:34 GMT From: psinntp!blkbox!mknewman@uunet.uu.net (Marc Kraker Newman) Subject: Re: Kaypro II Video Problem Message-ID: <1992Dec20.220234.12687@blkbox> sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes: >Several attempts to reply directly to "reynaert@arizona.edu" have failed with >a "user unknown" message from the host, so I will post my response here. >>> I have benn having problems with my communications when I use an external >>> modem at 2400 BPS, Some characters are lost while the comunication is >>> going on. This only happens when there is output to my adm3a screen. >>> Curiously, this doesn't happen at 1200 BPS or less. Also I have down >>> loaded files at 2400 BPS and no data has been lost... > This is a very well known problem with Kaypro computers. It is the >result of a poor design of the video display. When a new line must be >created at the bottom of the screen and the existing lines have to be >scrolled up, the system takes so long that incoming characters are lost. I >don't use a Kaypro myself, but many friends do. There is a file that >implements a correction to this (I can't remember exactly what it does or >how it does it). A common work around is to clear the screen every time it >fills up and to start again from the top. If you don't get more specific >advice from others who reply to you, get back to me and I will try to dig up >that file for you. It is posted on my BBS system, which is sponsored by the >former Kaypro User Group of the Boston Computer Society (now broadened to >include all CP/M and MS-DOS computers). In case you are a BBSer, its phone >number is 617-965-7046. This reaches first a v.32bis modem and, if that one >is busy, a USR Courier HST on line 2 (alternatively reachable directly at >617-965-7785). >-- Jay Sage Jay, this is not totally correct. I ran a USRobotics HST/V32/V42bis on my Kaypro 10 for several years, at 19200 baud, without problem. I DID have to rewrite the overlay for BYE and Ybbat to do this though, as they were incorrectly handling the Z80-SIO fifo. The SIO has a 4 character incomming FIFO, and it will allow you to do 19,200 (or maybe even 38400) without a hitch if you implement a queue, and every time you go to get a character off the SIO, insteadget the chars off the SIO, and put them in the queue, and then return the top char off the queue. I am going to include ybh-kay1.asm which implements this at the end of this message. Please note, most modem overlays such as bye, mex and others did not implement this. Hope you can use it and hope it helps. BTW, the queue I used is 256 chars, if you need a bigger one (long interrupts blocking the sio for example during a disk read) then you will need to enlarge it. Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORG 0103H JMP TURD JMP MODOUT JMP MDOUTST JMP MODINP JMP MODSTAT JMP PURGE JMP CARCK JMP DTRON JMP DTROFF JMP SET300 JMP SET1200 JMP SET2400 JMP SET9600 JMP SET19200 MHZ EQU 06H ; 4 MEGAHERTZ PORT EQU 04H ; Data port MDCTL1 EQU PORT+2 ; Modem control port BRPORT EQU 0 ; Baud rate port MDRCV EQU 1 ; Modem receive ready bit MDSND EQU 4 ; Modem CTS and Transmitter empty bits MDDCD EQU 8 ; Carrier detect BD300 EQU 5 ; 300 BAUD BD1200 EQU 7 ; 1200 BAUD BD2400 EQU 10 ; 2400 BAUD BD9600 EQU 14 ; 9600 BAUD BD192K EQU 15 ; 19,200 BAUD ; ; ORG 0150H ; FOR MY KSMAIL ORG 0A000H ; FOR MY RECVMAIL TURD: ; call 5f82H ;FOR KSMAIL CALL 51CCH ;FOR RECVMAIL nop nop lxi h,junk push h ; call 617fH CALL 53CBH ;FOR RECVMAIL pop d ; MVI A,0 ; Set up to write register 0 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,18H ; Reset channel OUT MDCTL1 ; MVI A,4 ; Set up to write register 4 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,044H ; Set 16x, 1 stop bit, no parity OUT MDCTL1 ; MVI A,3 ; Set up to write register 3 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,0C1H ; 8 bits, Rx enable OUT MDCTL1 ; MVI A,5 ; Set up to write register 5 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,0EAH ; Turn DTR, RTS back on OUT MDCTL1 ; LXI H,MHZ RET ; JUNK: DB 'Kaypro 1-2-4-10 I/O, USRobotics HST compatable (souped up!).' DB 0dH,0aH,0aH,0 ; MODOUT: CALL MDOUTST JZ MODOUT LXI H,2 DAD SP MOV A,M OUT PORT MVI A,5 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,0EAH OUT MDCTL1 RET ; MDOUTST: CALL CARCK ; Turn RTS off while sending ONLINE only JZ MDOUTST1 MVI A,0E8H JMP MDOUTST2 MDOUTST1: MVI A,0EAH MDOUTST2: PUSH PSW MVI A,5 OUT MDCTL1 POP PSW OUT MDCTL1 ; IN MDCTL1 ; Get status ANI MDSND ; TX ready must be high ; MOV L,A MVI H,0 RET ; MODINP: CALL MODSTAT JZ MODINP LXI H,QUEUE LDA OUTPUT INR A STA OUTPUT MOV C,A MVI B,0 DAD B MOV A,M MOV L,A MVI H,0 RET ; MODSTAT: IN MDCTL1 ; GET STATUS ANI MDRCV JZ MODSTAT1 ; NO CHARACTER, RETURN LXI H,QUEUE LDA INPUT INR A STA INPUT MOV C,A MVI B,0 DAD B IN PORT MOV M,A ; STORE THE BYTE IN THE QUEUE JMP MODSTAT ; SEE IF WE GOT ANOTHER WAITING MODSTAT1: LDA INPUT LXI H,OUTPUT SUB M MOV L,A MVI H,0 RET ; PURGE: MVI A,0 STA INPUT STA OUTPUT CALL MODSTAT JNZ PURGE RET DTRON: MVI A,5 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,0EAH OUT MDCTL1 RET ; DTROFF:MVI A,5 OUT MDCTL1 MVI A,068H OUT MDCTL1 RET ; CARCK: MVI A,10H OUT MDCTL1 IN MDCTL1 ; Get status ANI MDDCD MOV L,A MVI h,0 ret ; set300:mvi a,bd300 jmp setbaud ; set1200: mvi a,bd1200 jmp setbaud ; set2400: mvi a,bd2400 jmp setbaud ; set9600:mvi a,bd9600 jmp setbaud ; set19200:MVI a,bd192k ; Setbaud:out BRPORT LXI H,0FFFFH RET ; QUEUE: DS 256 INPUT: DB 0 OUTPUT: DB 0 ; END -- Marc K. Newman (N5SLG) Is UNIX pronounced mknewman@blkbox.com "UNIQUES" or PO BOX 591822 "EUNICHS"? Houston, Texas 77259-1822 ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 92 03:18:01 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.unomaha.edu!cwis!winslade@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Winslade) Subject: Re: Kaypro II Video Problem Message-ID: mknewman@blkbox (Marc Kraker Newman) writes: [munch] > ORG 0103H > JMP TURD <<<---- You mean that the code I hacked with that label is STILL floating around . ;-) ;-) ;-) Good day JSW ------------------------------ Date: 17 Dec 92 16:46:59 GMT From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!constellation!a.cs.okstate.edu!rjs@uunet.uu.net (STOLFA ROLAND JOSE) Subject: SmallC 2.1 Message-ID: <1992Dec17.164659.9904@a.cs.okstate.edu> Does anybody know how to get SmallC 2.1 to compile on a UN*X host? I have been trying, unsuccessfully, to get it to compile. I am also interested in any docs that may exist for it. All I have are the files: cc1.c cc11.c cc12.c cc13.c cc2.c cc21.c cc22.c cc3.c cc31.c cc32.c cc33.c cc4.c cc41.c cc42.c cc5.c cc6.c ccdef.c Any and all assistance would be appreciated. Roland Stolfa Internet: rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu Computer Science Department 219 Math Sciences Building Disclaimer: You've lost your mind Oklahoma State University if you think anyone Stillwater OK 74078-0599 speaks for this place! ------------------------------ Date: 19 Dec 92 19:04:00 GMT From: enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!lucpum.it.luc.edu!rdth2.rdth.luc.edu!pbricker@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Preston Bricker) Subject: Z80 FORTRAN Message-ID: <19DEC199213042399@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu> I found my Nevada Fortran manual and will send you a photocopy or perhaps a scanned text file if I get your snail address. I have the software on 8" disks, but my S100 system is down. I also have four Kaypro's (10, 1, 2X, 4+88) and would like you to send me a copy of the programs on 5 1/4" disks. Which model Kaypro did you get? By the time we connect it will probably be next year before you get the manual, but you will get it. I'm on vacation between Xmas and New Year's. Preston Bricker Loyola Univ Med Ctr pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu 2160 S 1st Ave 708 343-7200 x4372 vox (Hines Hosp) Maywood, IL 60153 708 216-2647 fax ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #146 ************************************* 23-Dec-92 14:15:53-MST,6911;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 23-Dec-92 14:15:36 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 14:15:35 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #147 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921223141535.V92N147@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 23 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 147 Today's Topics: Administrivia: Change to distribution list/mailing list origin. Disks to Swap K10 hard disk does not boot Kaypro blowing fuses - hardware advice needed Lisp, Scheme Z-80 FORTRAN Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. This is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. The products mentioned and the opinions expressed in these messages do not necessarily imply an endorsement by anyone or any agency involved in the redistribution of these messages. Although the digest originates at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, it is distributed as DIST-CPM by LISTSERV@RPITSVM. Please use the mailing list server to add or delete yourself from the list. 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Fisher ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 92 16:06:25 GMT From: mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil (Chris McCormack) Subject: Disks to Swap Message-ID: <1992Dec21.160625.871@usafa.af.mil> I recently unearthed a carton of Verbatim 5.25 inch disks. These appear brand new (my guess is only 3 or 4 have seen the inside of a disk drive). If anyone out there has a use for Double Sided / Double Density / 10 sector disks, I would be more than happy to trade you for them. (That's right, these are hard-sectored disks.) If you are interested in these (all 260 of them!), drop me a line. Chris McCormack mccormac@ee.usafa.af.mil ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 92 23:33:41 GMT From: jjj@mits.mdata.fi (Joni Jarvenkyla) Subject: K10 hard disk does not boot Message-ID: <1992Dec21.233341.17077@prime.mdata.fi> My Kaypro 10 hard disk formats ok with FORMAT06 but when trying to PUTSYS I get an error "DISK WRITE FAULT". Is there any way to overcome this but getting a new drive? Lockbad does not help, it suggests reformatting but this is of no help. -- jjj@mits.mdata.fi | PGP 2.0 key available | PGP 2.0 avain saatavilla ------------------------------ Date: 22 Dec 92 14:18:51 GMT From: tron!news.pgh.wec.com!godel!oscsf@uunet.uu.net (Chuck Fuller) Subject: Kaypro blowing fuses - hardware advice needed Message-ID: <1h784bINNli3@diamond.pgh.wec.com> My trusty pre-'83 Kaypro II (which, by the way, was under 18 feet of acidic, muddy flood water for a couple of days in '85) blew a fuse mid-session the other day. Of course, a replacement fuse blew immediately upon power-up. Being more oriented toward the software end of the computing world (but having some basic understanding of how the hardware works), I appeal to the Kaypro hardware gurus for advice on where to begin my diagnosis, probable causes, etc. One point bears mentioning: the machine currently has two half-height drives squeezed into the top half of the drive cage, leaving the bottom half open at the front. I _think_ I saw sparks through this opening when the first fuse blew, but I can't be certain. There were no visible sparks on power-up with the replacement fuse. Examination of the motherboard and power supply show a little rust on the solder but no obvious "burned" spots. There appear to be no "rust bridges" in the layout. The only thing that I've noticed that seems questionable is a small, blackened spot at the top of C1 on the power supply. I'd appreciate any suggestions that you can provide. A note to Jay Sage: keep those spare parts handy! Thanks ... - Chuck spots. ------------------------------ Date: 10 Dec 92 17:15:23 GMT From: agate!biosci!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!uni-erlangen.de!cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!ksweber@ucbvax.Berkeley (Klaus Weber) Subject: Lisp, Scheme Message-ID: <1g7tvbEINNt6n@uni-erlangen.de> Hi to all of you out of Erlangen! I am the owner of a Amstrad CPC 6128 with 1Mb Ramdisk. On this system I am running CP/M 3.0 and CP/M 2.2 since several years. But now i'm going to study some computer science at the university of Erlangen-Nuerenberg/Germany. Therefor I need the programming language scheme, for doing the exercises at home. Is there any scheme-interpreter for my two CP/M systems? Please write your hopefully lots of answers to the following EMail adress: ksweber@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ------------------------------ Date: 21 Dec 92 18:20:00 GMT From: olivea!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!lucpum.it.luc.edu!rdth2.rdth.luc.edu!pbricker@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Preston Bricker) Subject: Z-80 FORTRAN Message-ID: <21DEC199212204927@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu> Susan Farmer where are you? My email to @cs.utk.edu bounced. Email/FAX/mail/phone me your address and I'll send you a photocopy of the Nevada Fortran manual. I would like you to send me a copy of the software on Kaypro disk. Mine is on 8" but that system is down. Which Kaypro do you have? Preston Bricker pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu Dept of Radiotherapy 708 344-7200 x4372 Loyola Univ Med Ctr 708 216-2647 FA Maywood, IL 60153 ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #147 ************************************* 24-Dec-92 15:47:18-MST,10570;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 15:45:06 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #148 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921224154506.V92N148@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Thu, 24 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 148 Today's Topics: For Sale: Running CP/M 2.2 S-100 System More on the Ztime-I Calendar/Clock Re: HD controller for Z80 ??? vt100 comm package wa VT100 comm package wanted (2 msgs) Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. 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If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPITSVM if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Dec 92 21:16:42 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!news.dell.com!fisher.com!turtle.fisher.com!mwebb@uunet.uu.net Subject: For Sale: Running CP/M 2.2 S-100 System Message-ID: <1992Dec11.161642.147@turtle.fisher.com> It's time for me to make space for a new generation of computers, so I have to part with my old reliable, easy to understand, 8-bit computer. I'm asking $300 for all of it, including the CP/M texts and the BYTE, MicroSystems Journal, and S-100 magazines. I'd like to sell it all as a unit, but will consider parting it out after a few weeks if no reasonable offers are received. It is currently plugged in and running with no known problems. HARDWARE California Computer Systems 2810 Z-80 CPU - 4/8 Mhz California Computer Systems 2422 Floppy Disk Controller IBM 3740 & system 34 standard compatible Shugart or PerSci drive bus CP/M 128, 256, 512, or 1024 bytes/sector 4 drives, any combination, single/double sided/density 8" / 5 1/4" 2k bootstrap California Computer Systems 2719 2-parallel, 2-serial I/O serial - Z-80 DART, RS-232c to 115.2k baud parallel - 6821 PIA, Centronics, 3 interrupt modes unidirectional 8-bit with handshake or 16 bit w/o handshake California Computer Systems 2066 64k dynamic memory bankable, 4 - 16k blocks, 4116 200ns memory 2 - Qume DataTrak 8 - 8" disk drive, DS/DD (1 meg) 1 - Tandon 100-2 - 5 1/4 " disk drive, DS/DD Integrand 1100 S-100 cabinet, 10 slot card cage & power supply Freedom 100 terminal - 110 - 19.2k baud emulation - Hazeltine 1420, Televideo 910, Adds Regent 25, ADM 3A/5, Freedom 100 All hardware manuals SOFTWARE Operating System - CP/M 2.2, with extensions from CCS for disk formats Word Processing, Database, Spreadsheet Wordstar 3.3 / Mailmerge / Spellstar / Reportstar / Indexstar Calcstar, SuperCalc, DBASE II Data Translation / Transfer Compat Multimedia Disk Transfer, MEX modem softare, Crosstalk Software Development BD "C", Turbo Pascal, Digital Research Pascal MT+, Microsoft Macro-80, Link-80, Lib-80, MAC, ASMB SYSLIB M80, L80, Debug, MBASIC, CBASIC II, Forth-83 miscellaneous games, utilities, and etc. on approx. total 75 8" floppies, Several boxes of software manuals, books, and magazines --------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Webb --- Fisher*Rosemount Systems Div. --- Austin, TX mwebb@turtle.fisher.com --- (512) 834-7049 --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 14 Dec 92 03:32:17 GMT From: cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us!adp@g.ms.uky.edu (Alan Percy) Subject: More on the Ztime-I Calendar/Clock Message-ID: <1992Dec14.033217.13185@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us> I guess I woke some of you old die-hard Z80 folk up with my posting on my left-over Ztime-I calendar/clocks. If I don't reply individually, it's because I was swamped with requests on information. (for you folks that sounded desparate, you should have gotten a call or Email) Anyway, here's the scoop: I have 15 bare circuit boards left for the Ztime-I. The features of the Ztime-I are: - Under Z80 CPU installation - Adds 32 I/O ports that provide the date/time in BCD - Maintains time from "coin" battery. - Simple to build from good/detailed instructions. - Complete driver software to set/get time from chip in C, Pascal, and Basic. - All parts can be ordered from DigiKey. If you send me a check for $15 a board, I'll send you a bare circuit card, a copy of the manual, and a 5 1/4" disk with the driver software. If all you need is a bare board, then the price is $10/board. This includes shipping to North America. I hope this answers all your questions. I also beg for forgiveness from any of you that hate commercial "Exploitation" of Usenet. Alan Percy 61 Hawthore Dr. Orchard Park, NY 14127 -- A nanosecond here, a nanosecond there, next think you know... you have Real-Time!!! Alan Percy.................adp@nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us rutgers!ub!nemesis.orchard-park.ny.us!adp ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 92 23:49:50 GMT From: europa.asd.contel.com!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!naos!ewen@gatech.edu (Ewen McNeill) Subject: Re: HD controller for Z80 ??? Message-ID: jm59@prism.gatech.EDU (MILLS,JOHN M.) writes: > In article <1992Dec10.115013.18326@cc.tut.fi> kent@cc.tut.fi (Kentt{l{ Marko) > >I could really use hard disk controller for my trusty old Z80 machine. Are > >any of these beasts that connect directly to Z80 or its bus still available > >Used is fine too ... > Many years ago, BYTE published a two-article series showing how to build a > simple SCSI host adapter for S-100. The second article gave an outline of > driver software. The host adapter was little more than a parallel port and > addressing logic, since the disk drive's control was quite autonomous. Much more recently (Jan/Feb 1991) TCJ (The Computer Journal) published an article on how to build a very simple SCSI port. It was just a 8255, and some decoding logic. The handshaking was mostly done in software, except for the ACK signal which was generated by a flip-flop. I've had a quick hack board made from this circuit running on my Z80 machine for the past 15 months without any problems. Transfer speed is limited to whatever you can persuade your machine to do in software - about 45K/s for my 4 Mhz 1WS Amstrad. I've been talking about adding DMA support to it for a while. I might have a go at it over the Christmas break. > How about a modern redux with IDE? Those drives are pretty good value now, > and the interface is probably dirt-simple. (I'm just a simple M.E., so I This was done even more recently in TCJ (Jun/Jul 1992 I think). It mostly just turned a single 8 bit port into a 16 bit port by multiplexing. It apparently works quite well. It was connected to a board based on a 16Mhz Z280, and I think it used the built in DMA, so transfer speed would have been good. There was some software (basic) with it too. > John M. Mills, SRE; Georgia Tech/GTRI/TSDL, Atlanta, GA 30332 -- Ewen McNeill, ewen@naos.actrix.gen.nz (or ewen@actrix.gen.nz) ------------------------------ Date: 12 Dec 92 23:01:08 GMT From: saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![larry.moore%canrem.com]@ames.arc.nasa.gov (larry moore) Subject: vt100 comm package wa Message-ID: <199212.4443.3253@dosgate> Dave Weitermann, in message <1gbgc2INN8ai@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, asks: DW> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can > perform minimally VT100 emulation? I'm in need of one to connect > to our schools mainframe. Thanks. >dave weitermann >bv548@freenet.cwru.edu >weitermann@admin.ripon.edu >weitermannd@acad.ripon.edu (wet!pallio!dg) David Goodenough's qterm.com does a quite creditable VT100 emulation. | {canrem, dciem}!lfergus!larry | Nanet CP/M conference chair person. | | CP/M UUCP/mail(using David Goodenough's uucp21b on a TeleVideo 803H) | -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ Date: 12 Dec 92 01:47:46 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cleveland.Freenet.Edu!bv548@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (David S Weitermann) Subject: VT100 comm package wanted Message-ID: <1gbgc2INN8ai@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can perform minimally VT100 emulation? I'm in need of one to connect to our schools mainframe. Thanks. dave weitermann bv548@freenet.cwru.edu weitermann@admin.ripon.edu weitermannd@acad.ripon.edu -- ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 92 00:27:53 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate!dosgate![blair.groves%canrem.com]@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (blair groves) Subject: vt100 comm package wanted Message-ID: <199212.4443.3255@dosgate> -> Does anyone out there know of a communications package that can -> perform minimally VT100 emulation? I'm in need of one to connect to -> our schools mainframe. Thanks. Try David Goodenough's QTERM. It does VT-100, and supports transfer protocols including Kermit and XModem. blair.groves@canrem.com -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #148 ************************************* 28-Dec-92 19:45:48-MST,11066;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 19:45:07 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #149 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921228194507.V92N149@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Mon, 28 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 149 Today's Topics: CPM Kermit for a TRS-80 Model 4 qt-term disk or uuencode for Morrow (MD-11) needed Re: Kaypro II (2 msgs) Re: VT100 comm package wanted Scheme for CP/M TCJ HD controller article Well, if people are almost giving away CP/M stuff, some requests Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is a mailing list for exchange of information and ideas concerning all types of microcomputers running the CP/M operating system. 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Thanks ------------------------------ Date: 15 Dec 92 04:11:30 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!gateway@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: qt-term disk or uuencode for Morrow (MD-11) needed Message-ID: <9212150413.AA08269@pepvax.pepperdine.edu> Does anyone have qterm set up for a Morrow? Would you contact me, so I can set it up for our Assoc. Dean? He'll send you a letter of thanks when he gets it going, so that he can read his e-mail. USnail: Kim Cary GSEP - Pepperdine 400 Corporate Pointe Culver City, CA 90230 e-mail: Kim Cary, GSEP Systems Support, Pepperdine University ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 92 02:13:12 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!think.com!garyo@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Gary Oberbrunner) Subject: Re: Kaypro II Message-ID: In article <27709@optima.cs.arizona.edu> reynaert@cs.arizona.edu (Jim B. Reynaert) writes: Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm From: reynaert@cs.arizona.edu (Jim B. Reynaert) Date: 7 Dec 92 21:37:07 GMT Keywords: SIO & CRT Lines: 18 I have benn having problems with my communications when I use an external modem at 2400 BPS, Some characters are lost while the comunication is going on. This only happens when there is output to my adm3a screen. Curiously, this doesn't happen at 1200 BPS or less. Also I have down loaded files at 2400 BPS and no data has been lost... It would be nice for me to be able to communicate at 2400 BPS without having to guess what the output to the screen was ex... instead of more it writes "me" or instead of password it types "psswd", I would like to know if somebody out there has or had the same problem and if so how did you fix it. Is it probably a bad Microchi? And if so which one? I appreciate any help that I can get, thank you in advance Jim. P.D. please send e-mail... [I tried replying to this by email, but it bounced due to "User unknown"] I see from this posting on comp.os.cpm that some people are doing serial communications on a Kaypro II. My mother has a Kaypro too, and she's about to dump it in favor of a Mac. What comm software do you use folks use on the Kaypro? Is it public domain? Can I get a copy? Can it do xmodem or kermit or some such file transfer protocol? Or do you know of any way I can read a CP/M disk on anything else (even a PC would be OK, I can get it to the Mac from there)? ps: I suspect the answer to your question about data lossage is that you are not using any flow control. You probably have to set up your comm package and your modem to do flow control (either software, ^S/^Q, or hardware, RTS/CTS) between them. pps: want a used Kaypro? :-) Thanks! - Gary Oberbrunner Thinking Machines Corporation 245 First St Cambridge, MA 02142 garyo@think.com ------------------------------ Date: 29 Dec 92 02:13:46 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!think.com!garyo@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Gary Oberbrunner) Subject: Re: Kaypro II Message-ID: In article <27709@optima.cs.arizona.edu> reynaert@cs.arizona.edu (Jim B. Reynaert) writes: Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm From: reynaert@cs.arizona.edu (Jim B. Reynaert) Date: 7 Dec 92 21:37:07 GMT Keywords: SIO & CRT Lines: 18 I have benn having problems with my communications when I use an external modem at 2400 BPS, Some characters are lost while the comunication is going on. This only happens when there is output to my adm3a screen. Curiously, this doesn't happen at 1200 BPS or less. Also I have down loaded files at 2400 BPS and no data has been lost... It would be nice for me to be able to communicate at 2400 BPS without having to guess what the output to the screen was ex... instead of more it writes "me" or instead of password it types "psswd", I would like to know if somebody out there has or had the same problem and if so how did you fix it. Is it probably a bad Microchi? And if so which one? I appreciate any help that I can get, thank you in advance Jim. P.D. please send e-mail... [I tried replying to this by email, but it bounced due to "User unknown"] I see from this posting on comp.os.cpm that some people are doing serial communications on a Kaypro II. My mother has a Kaypro too, and she's about to dump it in favor of a Mac. What comm software do you use folks use on the Kaypro? Is it public domain? Can I get a copy? Can it do xmodem or kermit or some such file transfer protocol? Or do you know of any way I can read a CP/M disk on anything else (even a PC would be OK, I can get it to the Mac from there)? ps: I suspect the answer to your question about data lossage is that you are not using any flow control. You probably have to set up your comm package and your modem to do flow control (either software, ^S/^Q, or hardware, RTS/CTS) between them. pps: want a used Kaypro? :-) Thanks! Please respond by email to me if possible. - Gary Oberbrunner Thinking Machines Corporation 245 First St Cambridge, MA 02142 garyo@think.com ------------------------------ Date: 13 Dec 92 17:31:51 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!asuacad!cxkpv@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: VT100 comm package wanted Message-ID: <92348.103151CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET> While were in the subject, does anyone know of a vt100 communications program t hat supports keyboard mapping? ------------------------------ Date: 23 Dec 92 07:02:45 GMT From: pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!sousa.tay.dec.com!msdsws.enet.dec.com!secrist@decuac.dec.com (Strong datatypes for weak minds.) Subject: Scheme for CP/M Message-ID: <2330@sousa.tay.dec.com> The best you will probably be able to was a package called ILISP. It is enough to be fun to hack with and could get you started in LISP, but does not offer enough functionality to come close to getting your through a real computer science course. ILISP was not offered in source but seemed to work well and came with some useful documentation. It was available from Royal Oak, etal. last time I looked. There are quite good Schemes that will run on low-end PCs, notably SCM. Nothing that will fit inside of 64K though. Regards, rcs ------------------------------ Date: 16 Dec 92 11:35:57 GMT From: mcsun!news.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!kent@uunet.uu.net (Kentt{l{ Marko) Subject: TCJ HD controller article Message-ID: <1992Dec16.113557.20514@cc.tut.fi> Are any of you guys out there able to scan or something the article about IDE HD controllers in The Computer Journal 48 Jan/Feb 1991 and email it to me or post to this group so that we back here in Europe could get that article too ? Thanks anyway, -- Name : Marko Kentt{l{ E-Mail : kent@cc.tut.fi, kent@ee.tut.fi, MK102142@rapola.cc.tut.fi Address : Paununkatu 5 33700 Tampere Finland Phone : +318-31-560467 ------------------------------ Date: 25 Dec 92 02:59:21 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!wupost!emory!ogicse!qiclab!nosun!klic!dont@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Don taylor) Subject: Well, if people are almost giving away CP/M stuff, some requests Message-ID: <1992Dec25.025921.6219@klic.rain.com> I mentioned to a CP/M owner that people had been letting go of a lot of CP/M material recently on the net. This person responded that he would actually make USE of some things: North Star Horizon components he had a cpu board fail and went through hoops to find another one North Net boards&software in particular North Star Horizon specific software Pickles&Trout CP/M for Tandy Model II As long I am taking up net space, I have an old S100 box sitting on the shelf that still works. I might be interested in novel S100 cards, with software, to give a reason to turn it on and make it run again. What ever happened to those associative memory (cam) boards that were introduced for the S100? How about stepper motor controller boards? Something other than cpu/8k ram/ floppy boards. Thanks Don Taylor 503-235-6853 dont@klic.rain.com dont@pdaxs.techbook.com Some mail gets lost going to klic. I would love to see the result of a 'pathto klic' to help diagnose this, or ANY bounced mail reports including all the 'Received By' lines. Mail seems to get to pdaxs. Thanks ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #149 ************************************* 31-Dec-92 16:17:59-MST,10872;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:15:07 MST From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #150 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <921231161507.V92N150@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Precedence: Bulk INFO-CPM Digest Thu, 31 Dec 92 Volume 92 : Issue 150 Today's Topics: Fastterm Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #149, comm. with mapped keyboard Re: Well, if people are almost giving away CP/M stuff, some requests Re: Wither ZCPR? TRS80 Cheap! (2 msgs) Wither ZCPR? Info-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil is an automated, unmoderated digest of messages collected from a Usenet feed or submitted directly for redistribution. The messages are presented as-is, except for header reduction. 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If you wish to unsubscribe, send e-mail (from the same address where you were when you subscribed) to LISTSERV@RPITSVM if you are on BITNET, or LISTSERV@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU if you are on the Internet, with this command in the body of the message: SIGNOFF DIST-CPM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:03:17 GMT From: agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!newshost.LaTech.edu!VM.CC.LATECH.EDU!BLICK@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Fastterm Message-ID: <168CDA985.BLICK@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU> Has anyone used a terminal program called Fastterm? I downloaded it and tried it on my Kaypro 4. It starts all right and displays a message that says "Hit any key to continue." The problem is that when I hit a key, the computer locks up. If anyone has any suggestions or has any experience with this program, I would like to hear about it. Thanks for your help. Eddie Blick(e-mail: blick@latech) Louisiana Tech University ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 13:08:41 IST From: "Jacques J. Goldberg" Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #149, comm. with mapped keyboard QTERM has it, and shows how to implement it. You will also need the P.D. assembler and patcher pointed at in the QTERM documentation. QTERM and these are on SIMTEL20. Very easy to implement even for a person like me with limited assembly practice. QTERM traps each keystroke, branches to some space where you can play, and has a mechanism to let the rest of the program know if the stroke has to be passed out to the comm. port right away, or be deferred, or be followed by more stuff. Actually that's how a QTERM user would simulate a VT100 keyboard for example. If you know a little bit of Z80 assembly you will remap your keyboard in less than 2 hours with a slow diskette system (testing faster with a HD of course). David Goodenough (no error here I hope) thought about you when writing QTERM. ---------------- Jacques Goldberg - Technion, Haifa, Israel ------------------------------ Date: 28 Dec 92 19:52:16 GMT From: tron!news.pgh.wec.com!godel!oscsf@uunet.uu.net (Chuck Fuller) Subject: Re: Well, if people are almost giving away CP/M stuff, some requests Message-ID: <1hnltgINNnn@diamond.pgh.wec.com> In article <1992Dec25.025921.6219@klic.rain.com> dont@klic.rain.com (Don taylor) writes: >I mentioned to a CP/M owner that people had been letting go of a lot of CP/M >material recently on the net. Have I missed something ?!? I've been looking for another Kaypro II or two (if you'll pardon the pun) at a decent price (say, $100, $150) for awhile now. Is there some group I should be watching in addition to this one and the misc.forsale.* groups? - Chuck ------------------------------ Date: 31 Dec 92 18:55:02 GMT From: crash!cwr@nosc.mil (Will Rose) Subject: Re: Wither ZCPR? Message-ID: <1992Dec31.105502.13385@crash> Steven Christensen (schriste@uceng.uc.edu) wrote: : : Hi, : : I am windering if Z-Systems ZCPR is available on the net? : I know there are some SIMTEL-20 subdirectores, but I can't figure out : what they contain, and what I need to get for ZCPR. : : Thanks, : Steven I've just bought NZCOM from Jay Sage's wife's (brother's cousin's dog's) outfit, and at $50 it's a steal. I brought up ZCPR3.3 some years ago the hard way, compiling each unit and then linking the system, (at least I had an older Z-system to work in) and NZCOM is an enormous improvement, and really just as compact. If I were bringing up Z again, I'd simply buy NZCOM straight away - it's not worth fiddling with older versions unless the hardware is unusually intractable. They also do a full set of current Z-sys utilities, which is a good idea if you don't have easy net access. In fact, with the dearth of CP/M archives around the place I'm not sure you *could* get hold of a full set of utilities/help files without enormous phone charges. There is a suprising amount of good work being done in CP/M, if you can find it, and Sage's outfit is a good place to start looking. The other is probably The Computer Journal, (916) 645-1670. Good luck - Will cwr@crash.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: 30 Dec 92 13:10:02 GMT From: wshb!wcsn!stes@uunet.uu.net (Robert Stes Stessel WCSN Manager) Subject: TRS80 Cheap! Message-ID: <869@wcsn.csms.com> I have a TRS-80 w/2 8" drives & bunch of accounting software. It was given to me third hand by some one who knew nothing about computers and who's wife told him to GET IT OUT OF THEIR GARAGE! I plugged it in and tried it. It booted and loaded it's DOS from disk, but when I booted it a second time, it seemed to score the surface of the disk. Not really wanting to spend a lot of time with it, I quit before I did any more damage. Bottom line, it works sort of, if you have one or three already and want some good spare parts, or want to fix it up as an additional machine, it is in basically ok shape, I just don't need to play with ANOTHER operating system. (I'm already more deeply involved with Unix, DOS, & Commodore64 than I should be!) Apparently the CPU, memory (64k) and monitor are ok, but it seems to have a disk problem. I never got as far as checking the second drive. I would trade it for an old dos compatable printer, a commodore 80 column adapter for the c64, or whatever you have gathering dust in your ibm or c64 closet. If you have nothing to trade but want it anyway, don't dispair. If no one offers me anything in trade, I will give it away to the person with the best sob story. So if your church, school, club, etc. uses TRS-80's; you are a starving computer student; etc.; you want something for your kids to play with; need a boat anchor; etc.; you can come n' git it, or have it for the UPS from Maine. My wife wants it OUT OF OUR GARAGE! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< "So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied". Helen Keller >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< World Service of the Christian Science Monitor WCSN Shortwave; Robert L. Stessel, Station Manager. P.O. Box 130, Costigan,ME 04423 USA....Tel.(207)-732-4366 ------------------------------ Date: 30 Dec 92 19:08:18 GMT From: wshb!wcsn!stes@uunet.uu.net (Robert Stes Stessel WCSN Manager) Subject: TRS80 CHEAP! Message-ID: <870@wcsn.csms.com> I have a TRS-80 w/2 8" drives & bunch of accounting software. It was given to me third hand by some one who knew nothing about computers and who's wife told him to GET IT OUT OF THEIR GARAGE! I plugged it in and tried it. It booted and loaded it's DOS from disk, but when I booted it a second time, it seemed to score the surface of the disk. Not really wanting to spend a lot of time with it, I quit before I did any more damage. Bottom line, it works sort of, if you have one or three already and want some good spare parts, or want to fix it up as an additional machine, it is in basically ok shape, I just don't need to play with ANOTHER operating system. (I'm already more deeply involved with Unix, DOS, & Commodore64 than I should be!) Apparently the CPU, memory (64k) and monitor are ok, but it seems to have a disk problem. I never got as far as checking the second drive. I would trade it for an old dos compatable printer, a commodore 80 column adapter for the c64, or whatever you have gathering dust in your ibm or c64 closet. If you have nothing to trade but want it anyway, don't dispair. If no one offers me anything in trade, I will give it away to the person with the best sob story. So if your church, school, club, etc. uses TRS-80's; you are a starving computer student; etc.; you want something for your kids to play with; need a boat anchor; etc.; you can come n' git it, or have it for the UPS from Maine. My wife wants it OUT OF OUR GARAGE! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< "So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied". Helen Keller >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< World Service of the Christian Science Monitor WCSN Shortwave; Robert L. Stessel, Station Manager. P.O. Box 130, Costigan,ME 04423 USA....Tel.(207)-732-4366 ------------------------------ Date: 31 Dec 92 04:08:50 GMT From: agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!uceng.uc.edu!schriste@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Christensen) Subject: Wither ZCPR? Message-ID: Hi, I am windering if Z-Systems ZCPR is available on the net? I know there are some SIMTEL-20 subdirectores, but I can't figure out what they contain, and what I need to get for ZCPR. Thanks, Steven -- Steven V. Christensen schriste@uceng.uc.edu ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #150 *************************************