2-May-92 06:47:37-MDT,8488;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 2 May 92 06:45:23 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #32 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920502064524.V92N32@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 2 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C (2 msgs) Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. (2 msgs) Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Apr 92 16:34:40 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Message-ID: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes: > I have a program called UNIFORM that can read/write/format about 80 > different formats including DOS 360k. I do not remember the name of > the company that put it out. The company is called MicroSolutions, Inc. out of DeKalb, IL. The current version of Uniform will not run (sadly) under MS-DOS 5.00. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 21:46:40 GMT From: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!olivea!spool.mu.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!tech@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Richard Loken) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: >To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C >compiler for CP/M. Just another benifit to using CP/M. I use the Software Toolworks C compiler, I am not sure that the ANSI C Standards Committee had been struck yet when that compiler went on sale. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "In England, Justice is Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : open to all, like the tech@cs.AthabascaU.CA : Ritz Hotel." - Lord {atha|aunro}!cs.athabascau.ca!tech : Justice Sir James Mathew ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:38:11 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: > To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C > compiler for CP/M. I've heard tell that Hi-Tech C is ANSI-compliant. But don't quote me on that... :-) ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:26:50 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Message-ID: wspas59@urc.tue.nl (Rob Gijsbers) writes: > Does anybody know emulators for other 64KB micros, which I could > run on my z80 system (MSX-2), if necessary with CP/M+ ? > I know of a c64 emulator that runs with MS-DOS. Isn't there something ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > like that for our systems ? Can you tell me where I can get this if this is shareware/public domain? Thanks e 6 in advance. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 13:52:24 GMT From: mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!wittig@uunet.uu.net (Georg Wittig) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Message-ID: In <55630@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes: >Z80 Disassemblers > ZDASM from SIMTEL20 > DAZZLESTAR from SIMTEL20 > Z80-DIS22 from SIMTEL20 > Z8E from SIMTEL20 > DIS80 from astro.as.arizioni.edu > ZMAC from uunet > FRANKENSTEIN from wuarchive.wustl.edu DASM *is* a disassembler, but ZMAC is *not*. ZMAC is an assembler which not even can process user defined macros (as the name suggests). -- "Freedom's just another word | Georg Wittig GMD-I8.IT P.O.Box 1316 for nothing left to lose" | D-W-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 (Germany) | email: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (J. Joplin, K. Kristofferson) | telephone: (+49) 2241 14-2294 ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:30:38 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Message-ID: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes: > There is a TRS-80 emulator for PC's. try the comp.sys.tandy group. Since I'm a sucker for emulators, could you e-mail me where I can get this program? I don't carry comp.sys.tandy. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 08:19:11 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!luga!lux!9125113g@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mitch Davis) Subject: Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Message-ID: <1992Apr28.081911.19338@luga.latrobe.edu.au> In article ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: >laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes: > >> There is a TRS-80 emulator for PC's. try the comp.sys.tandy group. > >Since I'm a sucker for emulators, could you e-mail me where I can >get this program? I don't carry comp.sys.tandy. Just yesterday I got a hold of a TRS-80 level III emulator which apparently is new. It was called TRS80.ZIP (why are you not surprised?), and I'll have a think about mounting it here at La Trobe in the next few days. It DOES need an image of the Level III ROM to work, so if anyone was able to come good in that area, it would be great! Mitch. ---FD 1.99c * Origin: Mitch's Point (3:634/384.6) ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:43:10 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler Message-ID: larry@lfergus.UUCP (Larry Moore) writes: > Two possibilities that run under CP/M that I'd recommend are Z8E > (version 35) and DazzleStar. Z3E is available with source code > but the Dazzlestar source (in Pascal) hasn't been released yet. > I think both are available for FTP from one of the mirror sites - > failing that, they uuencode to about 120K and can be mailed. There's a great program called "Z80DIS" which has some artificial intelligence which gives it an idea how to disassemble a program. You can find it on SIMTEL20 or any good BBS. Z8E's main function is as a debugger, and it fills that bill BEAUTIFULLY!!!!! It's the best debugger I've come across yet, free or commercial. I don't have anything to say about the stuff that Sage Microsystems East has (hi, Jay!) because I've never tried it. But yes, it's great to have the source code for Z8E. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 92 18:46:21 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!ira.uka.de!unido!rz.uni-hildesheim.de!agsc!veeble.han.sub.org!proppi@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Lenz) Subject: Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler Message-ID: <1992Apr22.184621.21307@veeble.han.sub.org> In article <55273@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes: >I need to find a disassembler for some Z80 code sitting in a system with >no documentation. The VERY best I ever found is DazzleStar. It is an interaktive disassembler and works almost like WordStar. >Money is no (well, it actually always is but..) object. As I remember it is public domain. If there is no site in the USA you can get it from, I could uudecode and send it to you. Proppi proppi@veeble.han.de *** ....!unido!veeble!proppi Paul Lenz Friesenstrasse 22 D-3000 Hannover 1 =--> Remember: Rock'n'Roll and CP/M never die! <--= ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #32 ************************************ 5-May-92 23:50:30-MDT,11375;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 5 May 92 23:45:09 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #33 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920505234510.V92N33@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 5 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 33 Today's Topics: CP/M questions Need os. OS needed Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Want disk drive for Amstrad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 May 92 02:08:18 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!icsu8209@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Glassy) Subject: CP/M questions Message-ID: <1992May5.020818.4776@coe.montana.edu> A few CP/M questions: --What machines does CP/M68K run on? Was this a product of DRI, or of some other vendor? --Is CP/M still supported (ie sold, having apps developed for) by any current vendor? If not, is the source code for it available? Thanks in advance, Lou Glassy (icsu8209@cs.montana.edu) -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is. -- Muffy Barkocy ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 92 03:08:09 GMT From: sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!cs1!hitch@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Douglas Hanna) Subject: Need os. Message-ID: I need to borrow a copy of the CP/M operationg system for a particular machine I have. Tha machine is a follows: Console Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-89-X J1416062 LOT: 4471 Drive Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-67 J210H006 LOT: 44564 The drive unit consists of a power supply, 8" Hard drive, and an 8" floppy drive. When I purchased the system it didn't include software. I have contacted several Zenith people (all the way to their headquarters) and no one seems to have a copy anywhere. If ya gots such a beastie sitting on a shelf somewhere, please dust it off and drop me some mail. Thanks -- Douglas Hanna Bradley University HITCHhiker (042) hitch@buhub.bradley.edu "Where have you been?" "Locked in a cage by a cruel duke in Transylvania. It was only four feet high, suspended over a pond filled with crocodiles. I got out by picking the lock with my teeth. Luckily, the crocodiles weren't hungry. Where have ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 92 03:18:51 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!cs1!hitch@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Douglas Hanna) Subject: OS needed Message-ID: I need to borrow a copy of the CP/M operationg system for a particular machine I have. Tha machine is a follows: Console Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-89-X J1416062 LOT: 4471 Drive Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-67 J210H006 LOT: 44564 The drive unit consists of a power supply, 8" Hard drive, and an 8" floppy drive. When I purchased the system it didn't include software. I have contacted several Zenith people (all the way to their headquarters) and no one seems to have a copy anywhere. If ya gots such a beastie sitting on a shelf somewhere, please dust it off and drop me some mail. Thanks -- Douglas Hanna Bradley University HITCHhiker (042) hitch@buhub.bradley.edu "Where have you been?" "Locked in a cage by a cruel duke in Transylvania. It was only four feet high, suspended over a pond filled with crocodiles. I got out by picking the lock with my teeth. Luckily, the crocodiles weren't hungry. Where have you been?" -- Orson Scott Card (A Secpulchre of Songs) ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 92 13:11:32 GMT From: nwnexus!nwnexus!hitech!usenet@uunet.uu.net (Clyde Smith-Stubbs) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: <704034686.23853@hitech.com.au> ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: >To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C >compiler for CP/M. WRONG! We have been selling an ANSI compatible C compiler for CP/M for years (about 6 years to be precise, except back then there was no standard, just a draft). -- Clyde Smith-Stubbs | HI-TECH Software, | Voice: +61 7 300 5011 clyde@hitech.com.au | P.O. Box 103, Alderley, | Fax: +61 7 300 5246 ...!nwnexus!hitech!clyde | QLD, 4051, AUSTRALIA. | BBS: +61 7 300 5235 HI-TECH Software: C Compilers for all manner of machines ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 92 10:45:52 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!nuchat!xcluud!cls!lambada!f-454!uucp@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George Worley) Subject: Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Message-ID: <704555334.F00001@f-454.fidonet.org> TO: mnd@st-andrews.ac.uk (Martin N Dunstan) -=> Quoting Martin N Dunstan to All on 27 Apr 92 23:20:07 <=- Hi Martin N Dunstan, MND> I have acquired an Epsom QX-10 with manuals but there is a Is this an EPSON QX-10???? If so I will get you the BOOT DISK for it. MND> The manuals say that this machine requires MultiFonts CP/M MND> which was an extension of CP/M 2.2 I believe. I am not sure what this means. MND> My question is this : MND> MND> (i) Does anyone have a system disc on 5.25 inch floppy - I MND> can snail mail a disc for copying onto. Like I said, I will get you the boot disk if it is an EPSON QX-10. MND> MND> (ii) Does anyone know where I can ftp the files from - I may MND> be able to create a boot disc from another machine if MND> someone would tell me the disc format in terms of sector MND> and track layout at byte level (I love a hack!) Once again I haven't heard of Epsom QX-10 but have heard of an EPSON QX-10 as I have one. I will send you a copy of the BOOT disk. MND> Replies via email please (unless you feel that the rest of MND> Usenet may benefit from the information {8-) I have no way of replying to you other then this new group as this is a a gated message between USENET and FIDONET. I hope this gets to you. Thanks, George ... Backup not found: (a)bort (r)etry (p)anic ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 14:15:32 GMT From: mamason@mitre-bedford.arpa (Mason) Subject: Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: In article <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> siddall@kenyon.edu writes: Path: linus.mitre.org!linus!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!kenyon.edu!siddall From: siddall@kenyon.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Date: 28 Apr 92 03:42:57 GMT Article-I.D.: kenyon.1992Apr27.224257.48 Organization: Kenyon College Lines: 10 I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Scott E. Siddall |Telephone: 614-427-5696 | |Director of Academic Computing - Kenyon College |Fax: 614-427-5824 | |Information and Computing Services |Internet: | |Gambier, Ohio 43022 | SIDDALL@VAX001.KENYON.EDU| \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ The keyboard for the MDT-60 terminal which I understand to be the most prevalent model is the same one used on Heath 89's. I suspect your Heath/Zenith dealer could help you. |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| -- |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 01:18:23 GMT From: ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!glia!jfoy@decwrl.dec.com (Jeff Foy) Subject: Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: In <47278@dime.cs.umass.edu> steve@cs.umass.edu (Steve Cook) writes: >Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to >remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert >an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape >code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M >the problem becomes obvious. >I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future >problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe >all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? If you're using WordStar 4.0 under CP/M, ^QU (Quick Unformat is my favorite description for this one). [NOTE: That is control Q U] You might want to hit a ^B (control B) as I don't recall if it reformats paragraphs correctly. If, however, you are using an earlier version of WordStar, stripping the eigth bit of each byte in the file works just fine. Here's an easy method using PIP: PIP NEWFILE.NAM=OLDFILE.NAM[Z] NOTE: You'd NEVER want to do this to a binary file (like .COM) for obvious reasons! :) >It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! For SHAME! :) Jeff -- signature file is on strike. ------------------------------ Date: 4 May 92 15:29:03 GMT From: ulowell!woods.ulowell.edu!welchb@uunet.uu.net Subject: Want disk drive for Amstrad. Message-ID: <1992May4.102903.1@woods.ulowell.edu> The computer I am talking about is an Amstrad Personal Computer Word Processor, Model PCW8256. This is actually a CP/M machine, i.e. 8-bit, which uses a proprietary 3-inch diskette (as opposed to 3.5 inch). I bought mine when Sears Roebuck ran a sale a few years ago, selling them as word processors running Locomotive software, not as general purpose computers. I desire to buy the second or "B" drive. I also might like to acquire the interface which allows the computer to talk to a modem. I know that such a thing exists, but I do not have the model name or number. Also, if anyone knows if the Locomotive software is available for other (more modern) computers, please let me know. Or, if you have suggestions for a different newsgroup to post this in, let me know that also. -- Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #33 ************************************ 7-May-92 18:48:24-MDT,9390;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 7 May 92 18:45:20 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #34 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920507184521.V92N34@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Thu, 7 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 34 Today's Topics: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. EZCPR question..... How do you extract files from .LBR files? Re: CP/M questions Re: EZCPR question..... SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 May 92 22:25 EDT From: JSHIN@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. I am moving soon, and need to "liquidate" the following items. I am asking for $200 per item + shipping and insurance... but be ready to negotiate. CONTACT ME DIRECTLY AT SHIN@NewSchool.EDU or call (718) 442-1455, Su-Tu (413) 549-3832, We-Sa 1. Epson QX-10 (CP/M). Runs 4MHz Z80. Two DS/DD 5-1/4 380K drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 256K RAM (108K RAM Drive) B/W Monitor. Incredible graphics routines. I will send XBIOS info. Whole bunch of stuff downloaded from SIMTEL. Epson RX-80 printer with the ninth pin broken... thrown in 'cause they're friends. 2. Zenith Eazy PC (PC-comp.) Two DS/DD 3-1/2 720 drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 512K RAM. NOT EXPANDABLE. B/W Monitor. CGA Compatible. Catch: Broken "J" Key... DOS 5.0 lets you do Alt-7-4, etc. (Or you can grab a new one for $35 or so.) 3. A quart or so of latest-edition LSI's... Includes two each of DSP chips, 1M EPROMS, high-speed SRAM, 16*16 multipliers, CGA controller (may be just one), 1200BPS Modem chipset, 1MB pseudo-static RAM, etc. Wonderful for tinkerers! I will send you data sheet or at least Phone # where you can get them. Contact me for details. 4. 256K * 8/9 Simms of different speeds. 120-200ns. I think I have 40 or so... and will let go for $100. And, for the asking, you can get an almost complete and up-to-date set of Texas Instruments Data Books... otherwised destined for the dumpster. (NYC doesn't recycle books from residence.) Make me an offer. I could arrange deliver-pickup in NYC and Western Mass. Again, please contact me directly, and not through this list. THANKS!!! -John (SHIN@Newschool.edu, JSHIN@Hamp.Hampshire.edu) P.S. remember: these are my babies, and am letting go only because I have to move quite a distance... and can't fit them all in the car or afford to ship them safely. :-( Please take good care of them! ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 03:55:04 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u20565@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: EZCPR question..... Message-ID: <92122.225504U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> I brought back my Commodore 128 from death (I had it boxed up in the basement) and curiosity and nostalgia made me look at some disks. As you may or may not know, the Commodore 128 can run CP/M, CP/M 3.0 Plus to be exact. I had a bunch of diskettes from when I used to go to a local computer club. I had a bunch of CP/M diskettes (had no idea what was on them) and ran across EZCPR. At the time I had no idea what it was and shrugged it off. Since then I learned it apparently is the predecessor to ZCPR a replacement of the console command processor (CCP). Not that this is critical or anything, but can it be used with CP/M 3.0? Just curiosity, since then a machine with 10 megs of RAM has occupied my desk for a while (80386), no life or death situation...... ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 04:00:15 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u20565@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: How do you extract files from .LBR files? Message-ID: <92122.230015U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> I never was a CP/M guru, a bit too young, I do have an old Commodore 128 though. Even though MS-DOS has longed replaced it as my primary computer I was curious to see what kinds of CP/M software exists at various archive sites. I did use my old C128 when I was a sophmore in college and while I did have an account and therefore access to the net I was hopelessly ignorant of this fact and never took advantage of that fact (back then). Alll I largely see is .LBR files. If memory serves these are similar to the ubiquitous .ZIP files from the MS-DOS world except that .LBR files are simply files which have been grouped to form one file and not necessarily compressed? Am I right? A la UNIX's TAR? Well, regardless of whether they are compressed or not, I would like to extract files (assuming I'm right). I have a program called LU.COM on old CP/M diskette and surmised that this might be what I need. However I received a prompt and no matter what I typed in all I received was a question mark and some mish mash. So the question is, how to extract files from .LBR files? Please respond directly, thanks, Mario Pacheco ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 92 01:01:29 GMT From: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu!entropy@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (maximum entropy) Subject: Re: CP/M questions Message-ID: In article <56618@hydra.gatech.EDU> jm59@prism.gatech.EDU (MILLS,JOHN M.) writes: As far as I know, cp/m68k was DRI's attempt to grab hold of the 68000 market. If cp/m68k wasn't a _lot_ more functional than cp/m, I would say it deservedly sank without a trace. (Did Force use this o.s. at some point?) CP/M-68K was only -one- of their attempts to get a piece of the 68K market. GEM (Graphic Environment Manager) was developed for both the Intel and Motorola processors, and is the default OS environment on the Atari ST (a 68000 machine.) Cheers, entropy -- entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu entropy. . .it's not just a good idea, it's the second law. Boycott AT&T, Lotus, Apple, Ashton-Tate and Xerox. Join the League for Programming Freedom! Write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu for more information. ------------------------------ Date: 3 May 92 02:25:18 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!ddsw1!carson@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Carson Wilson) Subject: Re: EZCPR question..... Message-ID: <1992May3.022518.6933@ddsw1.mcs.com> In article <92122.225504U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> writes: > >As you may or may not know, the Commodore 128 can run CP/M, CP/M 3.0 Plus >to be exact. I had a bunch of diskettes from when I used to go to a local >computer club. I had a bunch of CP/M diskettes (had no idea what was on >them) and ran across EZCPR. At the time I had no idea what it was and >shrugged it off. Since then I learned it apparently is the predecessor >to ZCPR a replacement of the console command processor (CCP). Not that this >is critical or anything, but can it be used with CP/M 3.0? > EZCPR is for CP/M 2.2 and compatible operating systems only. Z3PLUS, a commercial product, implements Z System for CP/M Plus. It's about $50 from Sage Microsystems. I _think_ it runs on the 128 in CP/M mode, but am uncertain. -- -Carson Wilson carson@ddsw1.uucp ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 92 13:42:10 GMT From: prism!comlab.gatech.edu!bob@gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) Subject: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Message-ID: <55630@hydra.gatech.EDU> Many thanks to those who responded to my question about Z80 disassemblers. Wow, I didn't know there was still so much CP/M and Z80 stuff around. I am impressed by all the goodies that are available, many of them home grown. Anyway, on to the summary. Most people mentioned some of the CP/M based disassemblers available on SIMTEL. Evidently there is even a CP/M emulator which will run these on a non-CP/M box. Neat! There are also some cross-disassemblers available from uunet and from the authors directly. Finally, there is at least one commercial product from Pseudo Corp in Newport News, VA. A list of all the different disassemblers and related stuff follows. Z80 Disassemblers ZDASM from SIMTEL20 DAZZLESTAR from SIMTEL20 Z80-DIS22 from SIMTEL20 Z8E from SIMTEL20 DIS80 from astro.as.arizioni.edu ZMAC from uunet FRANKENSTEIN from wuarchive.wustl.edu CP/M Emulator Z80MU52b from SIMTEL20 Many thanks to those who responded. Clarence Wilkerson Ernie Kent Rich Drushel Jon Saxton Mike Spenser Tom Trebisky Jim Asman Paul Lenz Clyde Smith-Stubbs Eric Sosman Matt Kidd David Gingold Bob -- Bob Baggerman ! bob@comlab.gatech.edu Communications Laboratory ! rwb@csdvax.gatech.edu Georgia Tech Research Institute ! qseclrb@prism.gatech.edu Atlanta, GA 30332 USA ! 404-894-3525 or 404-528-7660 ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #34 ************************************ 9-May-92 23:51:29-MDT,9171;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 9 May 92 23:45:05 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #35 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920509234505.V92N35@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 9 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 35 Today's Topics: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. File transfers for Epson PX-8 games Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler TRS-80 Emulator (Rom Image) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 May 92 22:25 EDT From: JSHIN@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. I am moving soon, and need to "liquidate" the following items. I am asking for $200 per item + shipping and insurance... but be ready to negotiate. CONTACT ME DIRECTLY AT SHIN@NewSchool.EDU or call (718) 442-1455, Su-Tu (413) 549-3832, We-Sa 1. Epson QX-10 (CP/M). Runs 4MHz Z80. Two DS/DD 5-1/4 380K drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 256K RAM (108K RAM Drive) B/W Monitor. Incredible graphics routines. I will send XBIOS info. Whole bunch of stuff downloaded from SIMTEL. Epson RX-80 printer with the ninth pin broken... thrown in 'cause they're friends. 2. Zenith Eazy PC (PC-comp.) Two DS/DD 3-1/2 720 drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 512K RAM. NOT EXPANDABLE. B/W Monitor. CGA Compatible. Catch: Broken "J" Key... DOS 5.0 lets you do Alt-7-4, etc. (Or you can grab a new one for $35 or so.) 3. A quart or so of latest-edition LSI's... Includes two each of DSP chips, 1M EPROMS, high-speed SRAM, 16*16 multipliers, CGA controller (may be just one), 1200BPS Modem chipset, 1MB pseudo-static RAM, etc. Wonderful for tinkerers! I will send you data sheet or at least Phone # where you can get them. Contact me for details. 4. 256K * 8/9 Simms of different speeds. 120-200ns. I think I have 40 or so... and will let go for $100. And, for the asking, you can get an almost complete and up-to-date set of Texas Instruments Data Books... otherwised destined for the dumpster. (NYC doesn't recycle books from residence.) Make me an offer. I could arrange deliver-pickup in NYC and Western Mass. Again, please contact me directly, and not through this list. THANKS!!! -John (SHIN@Newschool.edu, JSHIN@Hamp.Hampshire.edu) P.S. remember: these are my babies, and am letting go only because I have to move quite a distance... and can't fit them all in the car or afford to ship them safely. :-( Please take good care of them! ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 92 22:58:10 GMT From: olivea!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news-is-not-mail@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Christopher G. Petrilli) Subject: File transfers for Epson PX-8 Message-ID: A friend of mine just got an Epson PX-8 and we need some way to transfer files to and from it. The terminal program he has for it only does ASCII transfers and we have lots of programs (including other term programs) that we'd like to be able to use with it. If anyone has any kind of file transfer utility, or term program that they could send him on PX-8 tape or disk we would be eternally grateful. Please direct your responses directly to him at: aggedor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Thanks. -- | Chris Petrilli | petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu, petrilli@cs.utexas.edu | I don't even speak for myself. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 92 11:18:13 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!wogg0743@ucbvax (William Shakespeare) Subject: games Message-ID: <1992Apr25.111813.14725@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Is there a good ftp archive out there for CPM games? I remember an expanded version of the old game Adventure (it had Excalibur in it, somewhere near the Hall of the Mountain King). bill gulstad -- William ("Shakespeare") Gulstad / So where are the C.S. babes? wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu / Joni Mitchell for President! I vote, so I can complain! / Did you vote? Then don't complain! Republican is the opposite of democracy! / Tune in, drop out, log on. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:34:40 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Message-ID: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes: > I have a program called UNIFORM that can read/write/format about 80 > different formats including DOS 360k. I do not remember the name of > the company that put it out. The company is called MicroSolutions, Inc. out of DeKalb, IL. The current version of Uniform will not run (sadly) under MS-DOS 5.00. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:38:11 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: > To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C > compiler for CP/M. I've heard tell that Hi-Tech C is ANSI-compliant. But don't quote me on that... :-) ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:26:50 GMT From: sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Message-ID: wspas59@urc.tue.nl (Rob Gijsbers) writes: > Does anybody know emulators for other 64KB micros, which I could > run on my z80 system (MSX-2), if necessary with CP/M+ ? > I know of a c64 emulator that runs with MS-DOS. Isn't there something ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > like that for our systems ? Can you tell me where I can get this if this is shareware/public domain? Thanks e 6 in advance. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:30:38 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Message-ID: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes: > There is a TRS-80 emulator for PC's. try the comp.sys.tandy group. Since I'm a sucker for emulators, could you e-mail me where I can get this program? I don't carry comp.sys.tandy. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:43:10 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler Message-ID: larry@lfergus.UUCP (Larry Moore) writes: > Two possibilities that run under CP/M that I'd recommend are Z8E > (version 35) and DazzleStar. Z3E is available with source code > but the Dazzlestar source (in Pascal) hasn't been released yet. > I think both are available for FTP from one of the mirror sites - > failing that, they uuencode to about 120K and can be mailed. There's a great program called "Z80DIS" which has some artificial intelligence which gives it an idea how to disassemble a program. You can find it on SIMTEL20 or any good BBS. Z8E's main function is as a debugger, and it fills that bill BEAUTIFULLY!!!!! It's the best debugger I've come across yet, free or commercial. I don't have anything to say about the stuff that Sage Microsystems East has (hi, Jay!) because I've never tried it. But yes, it's great to have the source code for Z8E. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 92 22:07:52 EDT From: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu (Etop Udoh) Subject: TRS-80 Emulator (Rom Image) Message-ID: <9205080207.AA29783@st6000.sct.edu> hi, the model 4P which i have came with the ROM image on disk, and that would have to be loaded before you could get into Model III mode.... I still have that machine, among 10 or 12 others....that wouldn't be the file that you need would it ???? ................................................................. : ------------------- SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY : : | EUDOH@SCT.EDU | MARIETTA, GEORGIA : : ------------------- : : Abandon all hope ye who have entered " CYBERSPACE " : :...............................................................: ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #35 ************************************ 10-May-92 17:54:43-MDT,9329;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 10 May 92 17:45:19 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #36 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920510174520.V92N36@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 10 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: Computer Books and Magazines For Sale Epsom QX-10 == HELP! ezcpr question..... Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers S-100 cards for sale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Apr 92 20:38:53 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu!jrblack@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (James Roger Black) Subject: Computer Books and Magazines For Sale Message-ID: <12411@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Computer books by Osborne for sale: Introduction to Microcomputers, Volume I: Basic Concepts Z80 Assembly Language Programming Z80 Assembly Language Subroutines Z80 Programming for Logic Design Price: $5 each, $15 for the whole pile. You pay shipping. Computer magazines for sale: S-100 Journal #4 through #7 Supermicro #1 Scientific American 9/77 ("Microelectronics") Popular Science 3/79 ("Home Computers") Infoworld 4/81 ("Computer Languages") Price: $25 for the whole pile. You pay shipping. Buy all the books AND all the magazines, and I'll knock off another $5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Black jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 23:20:07 GMT From: mcsun!uknet!strath-cs!st-and!mnd@uunet.uu.net (Martin N Dunstan) Subject: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Message-ID: <1992Apr27.232007.29645@st-andrews.ac.uk> Hi, I have acquired an Epsom QX-10 with manuals but there is a wee problem - it doesn't have a boot disc! (I hasten to add that I didn't buy this but was asked to check it). Epsom were asked about this machine but didn't know anything about it so this is about the only place I can ask - if it's an FAQ (which I somewhat doubt {8-) then please mail me the FAQ list! The manuals say that this machine requires MultiFonts CP/M which was an extension of CP/M 2.2 I believe. My question is this : (i) Does anyone have a system disc on 5.25 inch floppy - I can snail mail a disc for copying onto. (ii) Does anyone know where I can ftp the files from - I may be able to create a boot disc from another machine if someone would tell me the disc format in terms of sector and track layout at byte level (I love a hack!) (iii) Any other ideas on how to get this machine running? Replies via email please (unless you feel that the rest of Usenet may benefit from the information {8-) Martin Dunstan (mnd@uk.ac.st-andrews) ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 92 23:49:48 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate![ray.whidden%canrem.com]@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (ray whidden) Subject: ezcpr question..... Message-ID: <1992May8.1042.2454@dosgate> Hi Carson and other C=128 CP/M users, CW>EZCPR is for CP/M 2.2 and compatible operating systems only. Z3PLUS, a CW>commercial product, implements Z System for CP/M Plus. It's about $50 CW>from Sage Microsystems. I _think_ it runs on the 128 in CP/M mode, but am CW>uncertain. Z3Plus certainly DOES run on the C=128 in CP/M mode and works quite nicely. I also have DosDisk, from Plu*Perfect, too, and it allows and installable MS-DOS file system, just like OS/2 finally does with HFPS. However, mines been working for at least two years. Sorry, IBM, couldn't resist. Regards, Ray Internet: ray.whidden@canrem.com : RIME : ->CRS : 46 Campania Crescent, UUCP: canrem!ray.whidden FidoNet: 1:250/632 : Scarborough, Ontario M1V 2E9 * DeLuxe2 1.21 #4419 * DesqView: Windex for Windows -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario/Detroit, MI World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 17:05:04 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Message-ID: <1992Apr27.170504.2012@baron.uucp> ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: >roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes: > >> I have a program called UNIFORM that can read/write/format about 80 >> different formats including DOS 360k. I do not remember the name of >> the company that put it out. > >The company is called MicroSolutions, Inc. out of DeKalb, IL. >The current version of Uniform will not run (sadly) under MS-DOS >5.00. That is interesting, in that I have it running on an XT clone under PC DOS 5.0, but it also does not run properly under DR DOS 6.0 (it reads OK, but will not write to the disk) on my AT clone. Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 21:46:40 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!tech@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Loken) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: >To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C >compiler for CP/M. Just another benifit to using CP/M. I use the Software Toolworks C compiler, I am not sure that the ANSI C Standards Committee had been struck yet when that compiler went on sale. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "In England, Justice is Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : open to all, like the tech@cs.AthabascaU.CA : Ritz Hotel." - Lord {atha|aunro}!cs.athabascau.ca!tech : Justice Sir James Mathew ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 13:52:24 GMT From: mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!wittig@uunet.uu.net (Georg Wittig) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Message-ID: In <55630@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes: >Z80 Disassemblers > ZDASM from SIMTEL20 > DAZZLESTAR from SIMTEL20 > Z80-DIS22 from SIMTEL20 > Z8E from SIMTEL20 > DIS80 from astro.as.arizioni.edu > ZMAC from uunet > FRANKENSTEIN from wuarchive.wustl.edu DASM *is* a disassembler, but ZMAC is *not*. ZMAC is an assembler which not even can process user defined macros (as the name suggests). -- "Freedom's just another word | Georg Wittig GMD-I8.IT P.O.Box 1316 for nothing left to lose" | D-W-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 (Germany) | email: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (J. Joplin, K. Kristofferson) | telephone: (+49) 2241 14-2294 ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 20:28:19 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu!jrblack@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (James Roger Black) Subject: S-100 cards for sale Message-ID: <12409@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> S-100 cards for sale: 1 ea Solid State Music "PB1" 2708/2716 Eprom programmer and software 1 ea S-100 extender board with logic probe (Mullen "TB-4") 2 ea MP/M Support Module (Digiac "Maps-1000": serial, parallel, interrupt controller, memory management) 2 ea 16K memory card (Seattle Computer Products "16K Plus"--no documentation) 1 ea Floppy Disk Controller (Micromation "Doubler"--no documentation) 1 ea Floppy Disk Controller (Ithaca Intersystems "IA-2020/FDC-2/DCB-II") 2 ea 64K dynamic ram board (Ithaca Intersystems "IA-2030") 1 ea multi-channel I/O board (Ithaca Intersystems "IA-1190": serial, parallel, interrupt controller) 1 ea clock/calendar (Computertime "ComputerWatch") 1 ea 300-baud modem board (Potomac Micro Magic "MM-103") All come with full documentation (unless otherwise noted) and cables. All were functioning when equipment was decommissioned, but is being sold "as is" because I have no way to test any of it. Price: One board for $10, 2 for $15, 3 for $20, add $5 per board for more. You pay shipping (and insurance if desired). If you want them all--make me an offer! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Black jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #36 ************************************ 12-May-92 16:21:51-MDT,14190;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 12 May 92 16:15:52 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #37 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920512161553.V92N37@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 12 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: *Big Board: Based CPM-80 Almost-A-Kit for Sale A Few CP/M Questions Disk Drive for Amstrad PCW Last Call on Surplus Software and Hardware QX-10 info Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Uniform ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 14:56:50 PDT From: Raymond_J._Clark.Wbst311@xerox.com Subject: *Big Board: Based CPM-80 Almost-A-Kit for Sale Message-ID: <"12-May-92 17:56:44".*.Raymond_J._Clark.Wbst311@Xerox.com> The "Big Board" was a very popular CPM-80 system in the early '80s before the IBM PC came out. It is virtually identical wire for wire to the Xerox 820. I have 98s% of everything, just never built it. Everything in emaculate condition. $150 or best offer. Big-Board which features: Z80 CPU Board designed for 2.5MHz, most owners ran at 4M. I have all 4M parts. Z80 SIO (2 serial ports, One will be the console if you talk to it first on booting) Z80 CTC Timer Chip Z80 PIO Parallel ports chip. I think 2 of 'em. One used for Console Keyboard if you talk to it first on booting. 1771 Floppy disk controller chip, single density. See below- I have a double density upgrade kit. Video On-board video controller generates 80x25 character display. RAM 64K using 4116s. I have a 256K expansion board, see below. ROM Monitor source, both on 8" single sided single density floppy and on IBM-PC floppy. Documentation All original documentation including mulitple copies of the bare board to plan and document any modification. Data sheets for all Z80 parts, Z80 assembly language manual & reference card. State of assembly All ICs socketed with gold machined contact Augat sockets. 90% of passive components installed. Careful record of assembly to date following assembly manual and schematic with red pencil. Beautiful job of assembling by a perfectionist (me). Single in-line sockets were used so you can cut and jumper between the pins on the top side of the board. Components included Almost everything, two of some things. Components missing No Problems: COM 8116 Dual Baud Rate Generator Jameco has in stock for $4.95 74136 74LS151 Crystals: 14.31818, 20.0, 5.0688 MHz (Need 32MHz XTL to run CPU at 4M) Perhaps 10 misc. capacitors Data sheets for almost everything, including but not limited to all z80 parts, com8116, 1771, 2797. The rest is standard TTL, 4116 DRAM, or 2114 SRAM. Modifications Modifications were planned for: Run at 4MHz Fix a video snow problem (faster character generator and planned change included. Has been tested elsewhere) Change the video XTL frequency and clock divider to get a wider display. Patches for these may have been started on the board, although I am 99% sure they were not. The changes were very simple, and could be backed out with a jumper or two using the schematics and copies of the bare board. They will be documented if done, and there are probably notes on exactly what was planned, but no guarantees. Single in-line sockets were used so you can cut and jumper between the pins on the top side of the board. 256K expansion board. You loose the lower 64K. I think the software that came with it uses it for a RAM disk (floppy comes with). I have a SIG/M disk which is supposed to have Trevor Marshall's source to use it for track buffering. Double Density Kit Daughter board for 1771 socket to use 2797. No software, although I assume it should be possible to find similar software to do the blocking and deblocking and tweek it for this chip. Data sheets included. Floppy drives Two Shugart 801 single sided 8 inch drives, brand new, never out of box. Video Monitor Brand new, never out of box. Includes schematic. No case. Comes with separate open fram 15v 1A power supply to run it. Keyboard Very nice keyboard. Includes schematic. Parallel data with strobe (which is what big board wants). Software Small C compiler, software to utilize 256K RAM board, z80 assembler, misc disks with unknown S/W (On 8 inch single density floppies). IBM-PC floppy with source for ROM monitor, small-C, unknown other (it's been a long time...). Power Supplies A Xerox 820 supply. Switching supply with +5, -12, +12. I cannot say if this is adequate or not. 15v 1A for the video display. You also need a 24 volt supply for the floppies. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:56:49 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: A Few CP/M Questions Message-ID: <9205110956.AA26569@LL.MIT.EDU> Lou Glassy asked a few CP/M questions. >> --What machines does CP/M68K run on? Was this a product of >> DRI, or of some other vendor? I don't know very much about this, but there were a couple of Motorola 68000-based computers that had CP/M-68K. The Sage computer (no relation to me) was one of them. I don't think there has been any activity in this area for many years. >> --Is CP/M still supported (ie sold, having apps developed for) >> by any current vendor? If not, is the source code for it available? There is still a tremendous amount of activity in the 8-bit CP/M- compatible computing area. Most of this centers around Z-System, a modern replacement for CP/M. Besides occasional new versions of the operating system itself, quite a few applications have appeared. Many new public- domain programs appear every month and are distributed by bulletin board and via the Z-System Software Update Service (ZSUS). There have also been a number of commercial applications, such as BDS Z (a Z-System version of the venerable BDS C compiler), ZMATE (a macro text editor derived from PMATE), and ZMAC (a state-of-the-art macro assembler/linker/librarian package). You ask about source code. I assume you mean for the operating system. Disassembled source code for CP/M has been floating around for at least a decade (but who would want it!). Source code for versions of ZCPR (which replaces the CP/M command processor) through 3.3 has been released; the source code to version 3.4 is available from me as a commercial product. There are several BDOS replacements, both public-domain and commercial. The PD ones are generally available in source-code form. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:56:54 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: Disk Drive for Amstrad PCW Message-ID: <9205110956.AA26581@LL.MIT.EDU> Brendan Welch was looking for a disk drive for the Amstrad PCW computer. I can highly recommend the following source for CP/M products in general and Amstrad products especially: Elliam Associates P.O. Box 2664 Atascadero, CA 93423 I'm afraid I don't have the phone number with me here at work. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:34:12 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: Last Call on Surplus Software and Hardware Message-ID: <9205110934.AA26182@LL.MIT.EDU> I think I have given people long enough to express an interest in the surplus items in the collection of the Zi/Tel Group of the Boston Computer Society. This is the last notice I will publish. These items can be yours in return for a contribution to help fund user group activities. You may communicate an offer in any of the following ways: (1) by leaving a message on the Zi/Tel BBS in the Boston area at 617-965-7046 (or 617-965-7785 to limit access only to the USR Courier HST modem on line 2) (2) by leaving a message on Jay Sage's Z-Node at 617-965-7259 (logon password is DDT) (3) leaving GEnie mail for JAY.SAGE (4) sending email to Jay Sage on Internet at the following address: sage@ll.mit.edu (5) sending postal mail to Jay Sage at 1435 Centre Street Newton, MA 02159-2469 The email methods (first four methods above) would be best. When it comes time to send money, send a check payable to "BCS ZI/TEL" to the Newton Centre address listed above. Now for the inventory of items! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The hard-sectored diskettes for NorthStar computers have all been spoken for, but there are still some other hard-sector diskettes available. 18 boxes of 8" 32-sector hard-sector diskettes 7 boxes of 5.25" 16-sector hard-sector diskettes +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Some of the miscellaneous hardware remains. Much of it will be discarded or stripped for parts very soon. 1 Soroc 135 terminal 1 Kaypro that needs work (loose connector in power supply is part of problem, certainly good for parts) 1 mint condition Kaypro 2 with ComRiter diasy-wheel printer, original manuals 1 Osborne 1, condition unknown These items probably make sense only for people in the greater Boston area who can pick them up from me. I took the broken Kaypro down to Trenton, but the person who had asked for it never showed up to claim it. I am about to pull out the disk drives and chuck the rest. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ There are still quite a few copies of WordStar 3.30 and MailMerge 3.31 in sealed, shrink-wrapped boxes, originally for Apple CP/M. Many copies already found their way to new homes with satisfied owners. The rest will soon be given to the trash collectors. There might be a few other MicroPro items left. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ There are still a few application paks for the HP-41 calculator. I don't remember which they are. Ask if you have any interest. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Someone at Trenton took one copy of each of the Sony SMC-70 software packages. These are probably not worth the cost of shipping anywhere, but if you have an interest, now is the time to speak up. I am going to throw away the remaining copies at my next opportunity (perhaps after pulling out the 3.5" diskettes for reuse and seeing if the binders could be put to any good use). ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 14:58:09 EDT From: "John Juncholl Shin the Nuss" Subject: QX-10 info Message-ID: Sorry... I deleted the message before I wrote down all of the address. I have a QX-10 and oodles of info you would like. It took me a couple of dozen calls to locate the last Epson CP/M boot disk as well as XBIOS info and source listing... now that I have it, I'm willing to share, so come and get it! -John ---------------------------------------------- ******----- | But, of course! | -----****** ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 03:42:57 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!kenyon.edu!siddall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Scott E. Siddall |Telephone: 614-427-5696 | |Director of Academic Computing - Kenyon College |Fax: 614-427-5824 | |Information and Computing Services |Internet: | |Gambier, Ohio 43022 | SIDDALL@VAX001.KENYON.EDU| \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:23:38 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: Uniform Message-ID: <9205110923.AA26051@LL.MIT.EDU> Last Friday I called Micro Solutions to ask about the problem of running Uniform under MS-DOS 5. What they told me is that the current version, 2.17, fully supports MS-DOS 5. However, it does not, and probably never will, run under DR DOS 6. Updates to the current version can be obtained by sending an original distribution diskette along with a check for $18 to Technical Support Department Micro Solutions, Inc. 132 West Lincoln Highway DeKalb, IL 60115 They told me to be sure to include a note indicating what I was asking for and giving my address and phone number. Since I am using DR DOS 6, I decided to experiment with 22DISK instead. As far as I can tell, it runs perfectly (can anyone else confirm this). I suppose that this is typical of shareware: way ahead of the commercial houses. However, 22DISK, like MediaMaster, does not do what Uniform does. One can only format diskettes and copy files to and from the foreign-format diskette. Uniform turns the foreign-format drive into a virtual DOS drive on which one can use whatever tools one wishes. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #37 ************************************ 13-May-92 18:51:53-MDT,11277;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 May 92 18:45:32 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #38 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920513184533.V92N38@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 13 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: os needed Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Re: Master drive (2 msgs) Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards (2 msgs) Re: Uniform ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Apr 92 01:40:24 GMT From: rudy.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!zwiernik@rutgers.edu (Ron Zwiernik) Subject: os needed Message-ID: Hi, I purchased an Altos series 5-5DA without an OS or doc's. Could someone help me out? It uses an ST-506 Hard Disk and a 5.25" floppy. I would like to use this system as a BBS, but without an doc's or a working OS thats a bit tough :) Ron Swiernik zwiernik@pilot.njin.net ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 23:30:25 GMT From: ryptyde!tommy@nosc.mil (Tom Williams) Subject: Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Message-ID: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: > wspas59@urc.tue.nl (Rob Gijsbers) writes: > > > I know of a c64 emulator that runs with MS-DOS. Isn't there something > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Who makes a 64 emulator for DOS? I know of one for the Amiga, which was fairly successful, except when trying to load a protected program that used the 1541's programmability to prevent copying. But I wasn't aware of a 64 emulator for DOS. Of course, even if there were one, there's no way a DOS disk can read a 64 disk (MFM vs. GCR). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | "The only winning move is .. | Tom Williams, Lemon Grove, CA. | | not to play." -Joshua, `WarGames' | Internet: tommy@netlink.cts.com | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 17:03:35 GMT From: snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!wieland@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) Subject: Re: Master drive Message-ID: <1992May13.170335.16878@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> In article <1992May11.220125.3970@CS.ORST.EDU> peterse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Erik Petersen) writes: >I have just finished building a Ram Drive for my S-100. > >What I would like to do is patch the BDOS so that it logs >Drive E in after reseting the drive system, does anyone know >how to do this. (I can't trace the call because DDT chokes >when you try to trace the BDOS.) > >I am running CP/M 2.2. > >Erik Petersen Actually, CP/M 2.2 logs in drive A because it needs to read the CCP (and possibly BDOS) from the boot tracks. Perhaps a better way to handle it would be to modify your BIOS so that you can change the physical to logical drive mapping. Then, assuming that you can sysgen the RAM disk, you could have a startup EX or ZEX script that would sysgen your RAM disk and remap it as drive A. The TurboBIOS for the Kaypro allows you to do this -- warm- booting from the RAM disk is so quick you won't believe it. You could also alter your BIOS so that it would read the system tracks from your RAM disk instead of drive A. The problem here is to sysgen the RAM disk BEFORE a warmboot occurs or you'll hang your system. Then instead of always accessing drive A, the CCP would just relog the current default drive. -- Jeffrey J. Wieland Communication Systems Programmer Agricultural Computer Network INTERNET: wieland@acn.purdue.edu ENTM 216 BITNET: WIELAND@PURCCVM Purdue University UUCP: ...!ecn-ee!wieland West Lafayette, IN 47907 FAX: (317)494-8342 (317)494-8333 ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 19:04:04 GMT From: ditka!unixhub!falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!ralph@decwrl.dec.com (Ralph Becker-Szendy) Subject: Re: Master drive Message-ID: <3979@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> In article <1992May13.170335.16878@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes (edited): ... about the question why CP/M always logs in drive A after resetting the system ... >Actually, CP/M 2.2 logs in drive A because it needs to read >the CCP (and possibly BDOS) from the boot tracks. No. There are two different things here: Warm-boot and logging in. The warm-boot (reading CCP, BDOS and perhaps even the BIOS from the boot track) are done internally to the BIOS. If you have source to your BIOS (or if you wrote it yourself), you can modify such that it warmboots from any other drive (for example in my system, I can set the boot disk to any disk in the system, frequently I set it to drive C). Second, the BDOS will "log in" (read and decode the directory, build the ALV) a drive whenever you start it (which is usually after each warm-boot, although newer BDOS replacements can bypass this with a fast relog option). Even though I am warmbooting from drive C, the BDOS will still log in drive A. Now it gets even crazier: Assume I am booting from drive C, and my current working drive is B (I have set the current drive at address 0004h to "B" within the startup code for example). The BDOS will still log in drive A after each warmboot! The annoying thing is that even though I never need drive A I still have to have a functional and readable drive connected there. Lesson: Warmbooting is done internally to your BIOS. You may or may not be able to tell your BIOS to boot from a drive other than A. You have a current working disk, stored at location 0004h. The BDOS will always log in drive A when being started. >Perhaps >a better way to handle it would be to modify your BIOS so >that you can change the physical to logical drive mapping. >Then, assuming that you can sysgen the RAM disk, you could >have a startup EX or ZEX script that would sysgen your RAM >disk and remap it as drive A. That's the way to do it. If you don't like drive A being accessed all the time, declare your favorite drive to be A instead. -- Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Stanford Linear Accelerator Center RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET M.S. 95, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309 (415)926-2701 My opinion. This is not SLAC, Stanford U, or the US DoE speaking. Just me. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 16:18:19 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!author.ecn.purdue.edu!goerz@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas R Goerz) Subject: Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: <1992Apr28.161819.24534@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> In article <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> siddall@kenyon.edu writes: >I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working >order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know >of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? > Hey Scott, Depends which Morrow terminal you have!! They had three of them. One is a ADM 20/22, one a Zenith Green screen, and one a newer Zenith gold screen. Hence the keyboards are all interchangable with their counterparts!! I'm not sure of the Zenith terminal models but they are both very common!!! If you need info please yell. My father was the Morrow dealer in Indiana and I grew up with these machines. I also have complete service manauls for all of them!!! Chad MCCubbins not tom goerz@ecn.purdue.edu ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 14:15:32 GMT From: mamason@mitre-bedford.arpa (Mason) Subject: Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: In article <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> siddall@kenyon.edu writes: Path: linus.mitre.org!linus!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!kenyon.edu!siddall From: siddall@kenyon.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Date: 28 Apr 92 03:42:57 GMT Article-I.D.: kenyon.1992Apr27.224257.48 Organization: Kenyon College Lines: 10 I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Scott E. Siddall |Telephone: 614-427-5696 | |Director of Academic Computing - Kenyon College |Fax: 614-427-5824 | |Information and Computing Services |Internet: | |Gambier, Ohio 43022 | SIDDALL@VAX001.KENYON.EDU| \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ The keyboard for the MDT-60 terminal which I understand to be the most prevalent model is the same one used on Heath 89's. I suspect your Heath/Zenith dealer could help you. |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| -- |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 05:55:57 PDT From: Sprague.Wbst311@xerox.com Subject: Re: Uniform Message-ID: <"13-May-92 8:55:57 EDT".*.Michael_D._Sprague.wbst311@Xerox.com> > Since I am using DR DOS 6, I decided to experiment with 22DISK instead. > As far as I can tell, it runs perfectly (can anyone else confirm this). In general I have heard a lot of good about 22DISK (I am a registered owner), but I personally have had a *LOT* of trouble using it with the Xerox 820 series of computers (specifically the 820-II). My current 386 (which has a Compaticard IV for the floppy controller) works better with 22DISK than my old 286 did, but still does not work to my satisfaction. I have heard of plenty of other people who have had no problem using 22DISK with Xerox 820-II floppy disks though. I have had no trouble with other floppy formats that I have needed to use. The thing I like best about 22DSIK is that you can add disk formats to it, just by telling it the parameters. On the other hand, I have never had a problem with UNIFORM and Xerox 820-II floppies (on the same two computers). I have a real old copy though, and suspect I will shortly be getting their latest version. ~ Mike (Sprague.Wbst311@Xerox.Com) ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #38 ************************************ 17-May-92 10:49:31-MDT,9186;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 17 May 92 10:45:06 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #39 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920517104507.V92N39@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 17 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 39 Today's Topics: Exxon Series 500 Importing external data into DataStar database? Master drive NorthStar Advantage Re: CP/M Emulator for Unix Version 0.920 Re: EZCOM by Crown Communications, Inc., Dallas TX Re: Master drive ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 13 May 92 23:34:46 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-is-not-mail@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Christopher G. Petrilli) Subject: Exxon Series 500 Message-ID: I just got a machine called an Exxon Series 500 Information Processor. I suppose, strictly speaking, it is not a CP/M machine, although it does use a Z-80 and lots of other Zilog parts, so I'm posting this here. The machine tries to run, but instead of starting up the word processing software it seems to be dumping me out into some kind of diagnostic monitor. Here is what comes up on the screen: ESOC SERIES 500 OPERATING SYSTEM ID: AK0006.1H RESET EXOS V BV0h > If I type a D at the prompt I get: 0D85 0BD5 C3FB 0B80 6008 0584 8181 2684 I can also type G xxxx where xxxx is a hex number and it apparently tries to execute whatever it finds at that address. I can get it to reboot by entering G 0. Entering G 0584 (yes, I tried all the "addresses" I got from D) seems to put it into some kind of memory inspection/modification mode, something like DDT. So, can anyone tell me about this machine? Anyone have any technical specs? Or (here's hoping) anyone have a CP/M boot disk for it? :) It looks like a really well built piece of hardware and I'd hate to have to just dismantle it for parts. It has 64K of memory on board, and empty sockets which lead me to believe it should be expandable to 256K. (I did get the operating manual and it mentions a 128K version.) Any info beyond the standard operations, or communications manuals would be helpful. Paul Prescott via pertilli@cs.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 92 15:28:20 GMT From: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!iitmax!thssno@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Neil R. Ormos) Subject: Importing external data into DataStar database? Message-ID: <1992May14.152820.25841@iitmax.iit.edu> Illinois Tech Model Railroaders (ITMR) has acquired an old Sanyo SBC-1200 computer. It runs CP/M. We seem to have legitimate copies of DataStar and ReportStar, but the reference manuals (if any existed) have disappeared. We do have a couple of introductory or tutorial manuals. We have an existing machine-readable database which is stored in a flat file format, and we would like to import that data into DataStar so that we can use that product to maintain the database. The introductory manuals were good enough that we were able to successfully create a new test database and we have had no difficulty adding or updating records in the test database. However, all of our previous attempts to import old data without retyping it have failed. We are hoping someone on the net will help us out with the following. 1. DataStar appears to have a feature to allow "batch" entry files to be merged with the main database, but it appears to require that the "batch" entry file have been created with DataStar. When we experimented with using that feature to merge non-DataStar files, DataStar either erased the file or decided that there were no records in them. Does DataStar have a mechanism for importing data from external (i.e. non-DataStar) files? 2. We could probably reformat the existing database to fool DataStar into treating it as a native DataStar database, but we don't know the correct format. Is there publically accessible information describing the format of the data and index files? There does not seem to be any particular magic to DataStar data files--it looks like records are -delimited and fields are comma-delimited. However, I haven't been able to figure out the either the format of the index files or the way the index fields are calculated. Any help would be appreciated. Perhaps there are other ways to import the data we haven't thought of. Please mail responses to me. Thanks! --neil ormos wd8bdp thssno@iitmax.iit.edu ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 92 22:01:25 GMT From: usenetusenet@cs.orst.edu (Erik Petersen) Subject: Master drive Message-ID: <1992May11.220125.3970@CS.ORST.EDU> I have just finished building a Ram Drive for my S-100. The Ram Drive is FAST. Unfortunately, I've found a nasty piece of trivia about CP/M; there is a BDOS function that resets the drive system. (0DH, I think.) It logs all the drives out, sets the DMA to 80H, and then logs drive A back in. Since drive A is a 5-1/4" floppy, this is slow compared to logging in the Ram Drive. What I would like to do is patch the BDOS so that it logs Drive E in after reseting the drive system, does anyone know how to do this. (I can't trace the call because DDT chokes when you try to trace the BDOS.) I am running CP/M 2.2. Erik Petersen -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Petersen (Home Phone: 753-1829) peterse@mist.cs.ORST.EDU ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 04:26:00 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ucru2!ucrmath!starbuck@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (aaron greenwood) Subject: NorthStar Advantage Message-ID: <3922@ucru2.ucr.edu> I have a NorthStar Advantage purchased at a swap meet for ten bucks. I came with the monitor, 2 disk drives and keyboard in one unit. It did not come with a operating system, software or disks. Does anyone know of a users group in Southern California that I may contact to get a operating system and disks. I would very much like to get this old machine running. Thank you, -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Aaron J. Greenwood email: starbuck@ucrac1.ucr.edu Dept of Biochemistry starbuck@ucrmath.ucr.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 92 07:55:30 GMT From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Subject: Re: CP/M Emulator for Unix Version 0.920 Message-ID: <1992May14.075530.17830@athena.mit.edu> >>>from: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) >> >>I have a new version of my CP/M emulator ready. It isn't perfect yet (this >>is a really low priority) so I haven't given it a version of 1.00 yet. I >>sent mail to Mark Eichen who was kind enough to make previous versions >>available but haven't heard from him about this one yet. I just resent >>mail to him but in the meantime if someone else would also like to make >>it available just send me mail. I don't have direct ftp access but I >>can get it to sites who would be willing to make it available. D'Arcy: I got your earlier mail, and replied; I've attempted to reply to your most recent message as well. Druid doesn't seem to be in the UUCP maps at beacon.mit.edu (our major uucp gateway) so hopefully the explicit return path worked. If not, and you see this posting, just email the code directly to me and I'll put it up. _Mark_ MIT Student Information Processing Board ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 07:27:53 GMT From: brahms.udel.edu!hamilton@louie.udel.edu (Andrew W Hamilton) Subject: Re: EZCOM by Crown Communications, Inc., Dallas TX Message-ID: <29428@brahms.udel.edu> In article <1992May6.001711.15938@acsu.buffalo.edu> v125kjg8@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Curtis R. Anderson) writes: > >Can I guess that's the same Crown that's in the audio business? That is, the >crown to the left of the word CROWN looks like a crown of some sort? They are >still around, making things like 5kW power amps and larger. I think the Crown of stadium amp fame is based in Indiana (I have a cousin who used to work/still works for them.). So I don't think this was made by them. J. P. Grenert hamilton@brahms.udel.edu ------------------------------ Date: 15 May 92 18:41:27 GMT From: sparkyfs.erg.sri.com!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!wieland@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jeffrey J Wieland) Subject: Re: Master drive Message-ID: <1992May15.184127.24873@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #39 ************************************ 19-May-92 21:20:00-MDT,9828;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 19 May 92 21:15:25 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #40 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920519211526.V92N40@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 19 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 40 Today's Topics: CPM on Franklin Ace? Looking for VT100 emulator in Z80 source Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting Re: CP/M BIOS calls / DEC VT180 (ROBIN) Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Re: NorthStar Advantage Re: Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 May 92 17:39:56 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!vax1.umkc.edu!lbartel@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CPM on Franklin Ace? Message-ID: <1992May16.113956.3197@vax1.umkc.edu> Has anyone used CPM and Wordstar on a Franklin Ace 2200, Apple IIe/c compat? Will it even work? I was recently given such a machine and want to move to it from an Apple II+. I have a Microsoft CPM/Z80 Softcard for the Apple and need to know if it will work in the Franklin. Will I need to set any jumpers and in what slot, 2, 5 or 4/7? One slot is labled 4/7 and seems to be selected by a jumper. I don't have any documentation for the Franklin. thanks Lawrence Bartel lbartel@vax1.umkc.edu ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 11:00:23 GMT From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Looking for VT100 emulator in Z80 source Keywords: Z80 terminal emulator vt100 source Message-ID: <3693.volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de> Hello all! I have this old Z80 computer gathering dust that I used to run CP/M on long ago. It's a Sharp MZ80B, with 64 KB RAM and a 24x80 screen built in, two serial ports and several other extras. It occurred to me that I could use it as an extra terminal, so here's my question: Does anyone have Z80 assembler source for a VT100 emulation? I don't want to run it off floppy disks, so it must be Z80 assembler. The terminal emulator will either run in ROM, or I'll load it from cassette tape. I haven't done any Z80 work for years, and I'd rather not write the whole thing from scratch, so I'm grateful for any source that might be out there. The CP/M BIOS did emulate a terminal called ADM3A, and I have source to the complete BIOS, so I just might mangle that. But I don't really know all the escape sequences for the VT100, either. Anyone out there able to help? Please reply by email. Thanks a lot in advance -- Volker - - Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany) ------------------------------ Date: 18 May 92 14:59:23 GMT From: snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!iscsvax.uni.edu!hausmann@bloom-beacon.mit.edu Subject: Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting Message-ID: <1992May18.095923.4674@iscsvax.uni.edu> Perfect Filer is a database that runs under CP/M and I need to export a Perfect Filer database to a DOS file (eventually to Filemaker Pro on the Mac.) The problem: The database is running on a KayPro 10 micro (under CP/M) with a 10MB disk and 360K floppy. The Perfect Filer manual ((c) 1983) does not mention anything about exporting databases and Berkeley CA does not have a phone number for Perfect Software, Inc. Please help me: o Find out what happened to Perfect Software, Inc. (phone number of new business?) o Get a phone number for KayPro systems. -Tom hausmann@nova.cs.uni.edu P.S. My situation is compliated by the database being 1.6MB in total size. The MUFBAR program used to back it up splits to files across many disks when backed up. I could write a C program that would extract the data from the MUFBAR file, but I am looking for a more reliable method. ------------------------------ Date: 17 May 92 16:26:36 GMT From: pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lhuron.enet.dec.com!brown@decwrl.dec.com (Raymond J. Brown) Subject: Re: CP/M BIOS calls / DEC VT180 (ROBIN) Message-ID: <1992May17.153321.17109@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> In article <3489@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>, cowen@essex.ac.uk (Cowen C(pg seanm)) writes... > > Does anyone have a handy list of CP/M Bios calls on file > that they could e-mail me? Or perhaps the name of a > reasonable book on the subject as I would like to play > around with the assembler on my DEC ROBIN (VT180). > > Are there any good PD sites for CP/M as most of the ones > I have tried are not very good. > > Also if anyone has a list of the commands for CP/M's > debug program that would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Chris . > >****************************************************************** >* I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible * >* "The picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde * >****************************************************************** A good book on the subject is "Soul of cp/m" by Mitchel Waite and Robert Lafore, Published in 1983 by Howard W. Sams & co INC. 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis Indiana 46268 USA ISBN: 0-672-22030-X -------- Ray Brown rjbrown@giamem.enet.dec.com or rjbrown%giamem.enet@decwrl.dec.com or decwrl!giamem.enet!rjbrown --------- ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 92 10:45:52 GMT From: spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!nuchat!xcluud!cls!lambada!f-454!uucp@uunet.uu.net (George Worley) Subject: Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Message-ID: <704555334.F00001@f-454.fidonet.org> TO: mnd@st-andrews.ac.uk (Martin N Dunstan) -=> Quoting Martin N Dunstan to All on 27 Apr 92 23:20:07 <=- Hi Martin N Dunstan, MND> I have acquired an Epsom QX-10 with manuals but there is a Is this an EPSON QX-10???? If so I will get you the BOOT DISK for it. MND> The manuals say that this machine requires MultiFonts CP/M MND> which was an extension of CP/M 2.2 I believe. I am not sure what this means. MND> My question is this : MND> MND> (i) Does anyone have a system disc on 5.25 inch floppy - I MND> can snail mail a disc for copying onto. Like I said, I will get you the boot disk if it is an EPSON QX-10. MND> MND> (ii) Does anyone know where I can ftp the files from - I may MND> be able to create a boot disc from another machine if MND> someone would tell me the disc format in terms of sector MND> and track layout at byte level (I love a hack!) Once again I haven't heard of Epsom QX-10 but have heard of an EPSON QX-10 as I have one. I will send you a copy of the BOOT disk. MND> Replies via email please (unless you feel that the rest of MND> Usenet may benefit from the information {8-) I have no way of replying to you other then this new group as this is a a gated message between USENET and FIDONET. I hope this gets to you. Thanks, George ... Backup not found: (a)bort (r)etry (p)anic ------------------------------ Date: 18 May 92 19:40:40 GMT From: mtxinu!sybase!gng@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George George) Subject: Re: NorthStar Advantage Message-ID: <20182@sybase.sybase.com> Check in Computer Shopper. There's a company still supporting the beast. You can get parts, upgrades, an 8088 board w/ MSDOS 2.0 and a hard drive. They sell DBASE, Wordstar, etc. Look in the classified section. Polytechnic University in Brooklyn still uses them in their undergrad Hardware Torture Lab (they're cheap & expendable) & the local Northstar User's Group meets there. They might be a good source too. I have/can get software for the beast. I also have full manuals. These are some of my favorite CP/M machines. ... gng ------------------------------ Date: 18 May 92 18:05:05 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting Message-ID: <1992May18.180505.9080@baron.uucp> hausmann@iscsvax.uni.edu writes: >Perfect Filer is a database that runs under CP/M and I need to export a >Perfect Filer database to a DOS file (eventually to Filemaker Pro on the Mac.) > >The problem: The database is running on a KayPro 10 micro (under CP/M) with a >10MB disk and 360K floppy. The Perfect Filer manual ((c) 1983) does not mention >anything about exporting databases and Berkeley CA does not have a phone number >for Perfect Software, Inc. > The best suggestion that I can offer is to get the package that contains PF2ASC.COM from SIMTEL20 archives. As the name suggests, it will convert a PF database into a 'comma delimited' ASCII file which should be easy to import into a foreign database program. It is available under pd:pf2asc.lbr. >o Get a phone number for KayPro systems. > Kaypro's phone number is (619) 535-2155. However, they are a skeleton outfit now, that is devoted to PC clones, and I doubt that they can be of much help. - don Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #40 ************************************ 24-May-92 14:03:31-MDT,5469;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 24-May-92 13:57:18 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 24 May 92 13:57:17 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #41 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920524135718.V92N41@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 24 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: Kaypro Corporation: Alive or Dead? Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... (2 msgs) Word Star Problem, Help Please... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 May 92 16:50:57 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!gjw1@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Watson) Subject: Kaypro Corporation: Alive or Dead? Message-ID: <1992May1.165057.22057@midway.uchicago.edu> As my Kaypro II'83's ninth birthday is coming up, I was wondering what happened to Kaypro Corporation? Are they still in business? I know a few years ago, they filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, but lost track of them after that. Thanks. Gregory Watson gjw1@midway.uchicago.edu g-watson@uchicago.edu ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 01:18:23 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!glia!jfoy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Foy) Subject: Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: In <47278@dime.cs.umass.edu> steve@cs.umass.edu (Steve Cook) writes: >Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to >remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert >an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape >code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M >the problem becomes obvious. >I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future >problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe >all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? If you're using WordStar 4.0 under CP/M, ^QU (Quick Unformat is my favorite description for this one). [NOTE: That is control Q U] You might want to hit a ^B (control B) as I don't recall if it reformats paragraphs correctly. If, however, you are using an earlier version of WordStar, stripping the eigth bit of each byte in the file works just fine. Here's an easy method using PIP: PIP NEWFILE.NAM=OLDFILE.NAM[Z] NOTE: You'd NEVER want to do this to a binary file (like .COM) for obvious reasons! :) >It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! For SHAME! :) Jeff -- signature file is on strike. ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 02:37:24 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcomsv!mork!zig@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Curtis) Subject: Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: <8j=kk!p.zig@netcom.com> steve@cs.umass.edu (Steve Cook) writes: >Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to >remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert >an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape >code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M >the problem becomes obvious. >I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future >problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe >all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? >It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! There is a program called FILT (latest version 8.2) by the late Irv Hoff that will solve your problem. I would expect you will find it among the archives on the Internet, but if not I will gladly send you a copy. -- .... ... ... ......................................................... ....... ... ... ........... John Curtis ....... aka Ziig on IRC ......... ...... .... ... .. ....... Santa Clara, Ca ................................. ..... ..... ... ... ....... zig@netcom.com ......... ZCPR Lives!! .......... .... ... ... ......................................................... ------------------------------ Date: 1 May 92 22:57:31 GMT From: news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!dime!omni.cs.umass.edu!steve@gatech.edu (Steve Cook) Subject: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: <47278@dime.cs.umass.edu> Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M the problem becomes obvious. I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! Steve... ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #41 ************************************ 30-May-92 19:18:53-MDT,8223;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 30 May 92 19:15:10 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #42 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920530191511.V92N42@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 30 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: "Uniform" wanted Classic Kaypro available to good home CPM to DOS data transfer OS for Tektronix 4170??? Re: "Uniform" wanted (2 msgs) Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #33 S-100 cards Tape backup info ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 May 92 11:42:48 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!metro!grivel!ipso!dave@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Horsfall) Subject: "Uniform" wanted Message-ID: <1992May25.114248.11896@ips.oz.au> I'm told there is a program called "Uniform", allowing a CP/M box to emulate other soft-sectored formats. Anyone know anything about it? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC dave@ips.OZ.AU ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave "Difference between a virus and Windows? A virus never fails" - R.Mulder ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 92 05:44:28 GMT From: well!well.sf.ca.us!scm@uunet.uu.net (Steve McClary) Subject: Classic Kaypro available to good home Message-ID: I have one of the fine old Kaypro 4-83 "portable" available to a good home. Plenty of software, both commercial and public domain. Works fine and stillmakes a good word processor and telecommunications terminal. I'll entertain offers, but mostly want to see someone use it. If you're a non-profit or similar worthy cause, you can have it for the cost of shipping. Let me know -- it's time to move and I really don't ned it anymore. Steve McClary -- ----*----*----*----*---*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----* Steve McClary Nothing special or pretentious scm@well.sf.ca.us to put here, so I won't... ----*----*----*----*---*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----* ------------------------------ Date: 29 May 92 19:20:41 GMT From: lynx.msc.cornell.edu!mike@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Heisler) Subject: CPM to DOS data transfer Message-ID: <1992May29.192041.17628@msc.cornell.edu> We have some data on two Z80 CPM machines that are being phased out in favor of 386 DOS machines. We need to get some of the data from the 160K cpm disks to DOS disks. The two CPM machines are an Osborne and a Phillips. We have Kermit for the Osborne and can transfer the data from there at 1200 baud over serial line but would rather not. The Phillips has no kermit and the Osborne kermit doesn't work on it. Any ideas? (even if they cost money) Mike Heisler 607-255-7344 mike@msc.cornell.edu Materials Science Ctr. 302 Thurston Hall Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853-1503 ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 92 03:41:21 GMT From: jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!noah@rutgers.edu (Tim Farris Kadom) Subject: OS for Tektronix 4170??? Message-ID: <1992May28.034121.27716@wam.umd.edu> I have had this tek 4170, and 4105 terminal for over a year now. I am only using the terminal to call into the net, but the 4170 seems to be running its self test all the way to the point where I should insert the OS disk. thats where I run into trouble because I dont have my OS disk. I called Tek, and they want $295 (might as well be a thousand!) for a new disk and manual. I cant afford that! so I was hoping someone out here had a suggestion... I could really use this computer (I mean its impressive to look at and all... but it would really be nice if it worked). Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance, tim (noah@wam.umd.edu) -- "No one I think is in my tree..." -John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 92 08:11:44 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!ersys!davem@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dave McCrady) Subject: Re: "Uniform" wanted Message-ID: <0LgDLB1w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> dave@ips.oz.au (Dave Horsfall) writes: > I'm told there is a program called "Uniform", allowing a CP/M box to > emulate other soft-sectored formats. Anyone know anything about it? > > -- It was a commercial package marketed for the Kaypro, and perhaps some others. I don't know if it's still around (Jay Sage, are you out there?) There is an MSDOS version available from a company called Microsolutions in DeKalb, Illinois. I got my copy from Emerald Microware in Beaverton, Oregon when I was down there a few years ago .. I still make fairly constant use of it... Dave McCrady davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton Remote Systems: Celebrating 10 years of service to Northern Alberta ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 92 05:25:11 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: "Uniform" wanted Message-ID: <1992May27.052511.3091@baron.uucp> Dave, that is correct. In fact, there are versions for various CP/M machines and another called UniForm-PC for PC compatibles. They are products of: Micro Solutions, Inc. 132 West Lincoln Hwy. DeKalb IL 60115 (815) 756-3411 Be advised, however, that because of the variations from one CP/M machine to another, only the most popular of them had a version tailored to them. - don Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 92 11:05:48 CET From: 030141@DOLUNI1.BITNET Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #33 unsubscribe all ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 92 05:39:41 GMT From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!news-is-not-mail@decwrl.dec.com (Christopher G. Petrilli) Subject: S-100 cards Message-ID: <101rmtINNf80@cs.utexas.edu> I have recently obtained the following S-100 computer equipment: Vector MZ S-100 computer Vector Graphics, Inc. Containing: ZCB CPU board 64K RAM ASSY NO 3504 Disk Controller (FD Control B Micropolis) Flashwriter II (Video card?) ------------------------------------------------- Other S-100 cards: Cambrian Systems: Z80 CPU (11705A) CS2900 Test System Data Recovery Board (12601B) 12074B (Interface card?) 11701B (Video card?) Godbout CompuPro RAM17 "Doubler" copyright 1978, DDC rev 8 The Vector machine doesn't boot (drive A seems to be inoperable), and the rest of the boards are from who knows what system. Any information on these cards and how to put them togeather into a working system would be greatly appreciated. Paul Prescott via petrilli@cs.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 May 92 21:02:23 EDT From: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu (Etop Udoh) Subject: Tape backup info Message-ID: <9205310102.AA28456@st6000.sct.edu> hi, I'm looking for general information on tape backup units in terms of books, magazine articles, or files in public domain... ................................................................. : ------------------- SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY : : | EUDOH@SCT.EDU | MARIETTA, GEORGIA : : ------------------- : : Abandon all hope ye who have entered " CYBERSPACE " : :...............................................................: ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #42 ************************************ 2-May-92 06:47:37-MDT,8488;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 2 May 92 06:45:23 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #32 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920502064524.V92N32@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 2 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C (2 msgs) Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. (2 msgs) Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler (2 msgs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Apr 92 16:34:40 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Message-ID: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes: > I have a program called UNIFORM that can read/write/format about 80 > different formats including DOS 360k. I do not remember the name of > the company that put it out. The company is called MicroSolutions, Inc. out of DeKalb, IL. The current version of Uniform will not run (sadly) under MS-DOS 5.00. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 21:46:40 GMT From: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!olivea!spool.mu.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!tech@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Richard Loken) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: >To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C >compiler for CP/M. Just another benifit to using CP/M. I use the Software Toolworks C compiler, I am not sure that the ANSI C Standards Committee had been struck yet when that compiler went on sale. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "In England, Justice is Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : open to all, like the tech@cs.AthabascaU.CA : Ritz Hotel." - Lord {atha|aunro}!cs.athabascau.ca!tech : Justice Sir James Mathew ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:38:11 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: > To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C > compiler for CP/M. I've heard tell that Hi-Tech C is ANSI-compliant. But don't quote me on that... :-) ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:26:50 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Message-ID: wspas59@urc.tue.nl (Rob Gijsbers) writes: > Does anybody know emulators for other 64KB micros, which I could > run on my z80 system (MSX-2), if necessary with CP/M+ ? > I know of a c64 emulator that runs with MS-DOS. Isn't there something ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > like that for our systems ? Can you tell me where I can get this if this is shareware/public domain? Thanks e 6 in advance. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 13:52:24 GMT From: mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!wittig@uunet.uu.net (Georg Wittig) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Message-ID: In <55630@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes: >Z80 Disassemblers > ZDASM from SIMTEL20 > DAZZLESTAR from SIMTEL20 > Z80-DIS22 from SIMTEL20 > Z8E from SIMTEL20 > DIS80 from astro.as.arizioni.edu > ZMAC from uunet > FRANKENSTEIN from wuarchive.wustl.edu DASM *is* a disassembler, but ZMAC is *not*. ZMAC is an assembler which not even can process user defined macros (as the name suggests). -- "Freedom's just another word | Georg Wittig GMD-I8.IT P.O.Box 1316 for nothing left to lose" | D-W-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 (Germany) | email: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (J. Joplin, K. Kristofferson) | telephone: (+49) 2241 14-2294 ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:30:38 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Message-ID: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes: > There is a TRS-80 emulator for PC's. try the comp.sys.tandy group. Since I'm a sucker for emulators, could you e-mail me where I can get this program? I don't carry comp.sys.tandy. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 08:19:11 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!luga!lux!9125113g@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Mitch Davis) Subject: Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Message-ID: <1992Apr28.081911.19338@luga.latrobe.edu.au> In article ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: >laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes: > >> There is a TRS-80 emulator for PC's. try the comp.sys.tandy group. > >Since I'm a sucker for emulators, could you e-mail me where I can >get this program? I don't carry comp.sys.tandy. Just yesterday I got a hold of a TRS-80 level III emulator which apparently is new. It was called TRS80.ZIP (why are you not surprised?), and I'll have a think about mounting it here at La Trobe in the next few days. It DOES need an image of the Level III ROM to work, so if anyone was able to come good in that area, it would be great! Mitch. ---FD 1.99c * Origin: Mitch's Point (3:634/384.6) ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:43:10 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler Message-ID: larry@lfergus.UUCP (Larry Moore) writes: > Two possibilities that run under CP/M that I'd recommend are Z8E > (version 35) and DazzleStar. Z3E is available with source code > but the Dazzlestar source (in Pascal) hasn't been released yet. > I think both are available for FTP from one of the mirror sites - > failing that, they uuencode to about 120K and can be mailed. There's a great program called "Z80DIS" which has some artificial intelligence which gives it an idea how to disassemble a program. You can find it on SIMTEL20 or any good BBS. Z8E's main function is as a debugger, and it fills that bill BEAUTIFULLY!!!!! It's the best debugger I've come across yet, free or commercial. I don't have anything to say about the stuff that Sage Microsystems East has (hi, Jay!) because I've never tried it. But yes, it's great to have the source code for Z8E. ------------------------------ Date: 22 Apr 92 18:46:21 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!ira.uka.de!unido!rz.uni-hildesheim.de!agsc!veeble.han.sub.org!proppi@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Lenz) Subject: Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler Message-ID: <1992Apr22.184621.21307@veeble.han.sub.org> In article <55273@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes: >I need to find a disassembler for some Z80 code sitting in a system with >no documentation. The VERY best I ever found is DazzleStar. It is an interaktive disassembler and works almost like WordStar. >Money is no (well, it actually always is but..) object. As I remember it is public domain. If there is no site in the USA you can get it from, I could uudecode and send it to you. Proppi proppi@veeble.han.de *** ....!unido!veeble!proppi Paul Lenz Friesenstrasse 22 D-3000 Hannover 1 =--> Remember: Rock'n'Roll and CP/M never die! <--= ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #32 ************************************ 5-May-92 23:50:30-MDT,11375;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 5 May 92 23:45:09 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #33 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920505234510.V92N33@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 5 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 33 Today's Topics: CP/M questions Need os. OS needed Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Want disk drive for Amstrad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 May 92 02:08:18 GMT From: sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!icsu8209@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Glassy) Subject: CP/M questions Message-ID: <1992May5.020818.4776@coe.montana.edu> A few CP/M questions: --What machines does CP/M68K run on? Was this a product of DRI, or of some other vendor? --Is CP/M still supported (ie sold, having apps developed for) by any current vendor? If not, is the source code for it available? Thanks in advance, Lou Glassy (icsu8209@cs.montana.edu) -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is. -- Muffy Barkocy ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 92 03:08:09 GMT From: sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!cs1!hitch@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Douglas Hanna) Subject: Need os. Message-ID: I need to borrow a copy of the CP/M operationg system for a particular machine I have. Tha machine is a follows: Console Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-89-X J1416062 LOT: 4471 Drive Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-67 J210H006 LOT: 44564 The drive unit consists of a power supply, 8" Hard drive, and an 8" floppy drive. When I purchased the system it didn't include software. I have contacted several Zenith people (all the way to their headquarters) and no one seems to have a copy anywhere. If ya gots such a beastie sitting on a shelf somewhere, please dust it off and drop me some mail. Thanks -- Douglas Hanna Bradley University HITCHhiker (042) hitch@buhub.bradley.edu "Where have you been?" "Locked in a cage by a cruel duke in Transylvania. It was only four feet high, suspended over a pond filled with crocodiles. I got out by picking the lock with my teeth. Luckily, the crocodiles weren't hungry. Where have ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 92 03:18:51 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!cs1!hitch@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Douglas Hanna) Subject: OS needed Message-ID: I need to borrow a copy of the CP/M operationg system for a particular machine I have. Tha machine is a follows: Console Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-89-X J1416062 LOT: 4471 Drive Unit: Zenith Data Systems Z-67 J210H006 LOT: 44564 The drive unit consists of a power supply, 8" Hard drive, and an 8" floppy drive. When I purchased the system it didn't include software. I have contacted several Zenith people (all the way to their headquarters) and no one seems to have a copy anywhere. If ya gots such a beastie sitting on a shelf somewhere, please dust it off and drop me some mail. Thanks -- Douglas Hanna Bradley University HITCHhiker (042) hitch@buhub.bradley.edu "Where have you been?" "Locked in a cage by a cruel duke in Transylvania. It was only four feet high, suspended over a pond filled with crocodiles. I got out by picking the lock with my teeth. Luckily, the crocodiles weren't hungry. Where have you been?" -- Orson Scott Card (A Secpulchre of Songs) ------------------------------ Date: 23 Apr 92 13:11:32 GMT From: nwnexus!nwnexus!hitech!usenet@uunet.uu.net (Clyde Smith-Stubbs) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: <704034686.23853@hitech.com.au> ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: >To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C >compiler for CP/M. WRONG! We have been selling an ANSI compatible C compiler for CP/M for years (about 6 years to be precise, except back then there was no standard, just a draft). -- Clyde Smith-Stubbs | HI-TECH Software, | Voice: +61 7 300 5011 clyde@hitech.com.au | P.O. Box 103, Alderley, | Fax: +61 7 300 5246 ...!nwnexus!hitech!clyde | QLD, 4051, AUSTRALIA. | BBS: +61 7 300 5235 HI-TECH Software: C Compilers for all manner of machines ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 92 10:45:52 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!nuchat!xcluud!cls!lambada!f-454!uucp@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George Worley) Subject: Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Message-ID: <704555334.F00001@f-454.fidonet.org> TO: mnd@st-andrews.ac.uk (Martin N Dunstan) -=> Quoting Martin N Dunstan to All on 27 Apr 92 23:20:07 <=- Hi Martin N Dunstan, MND> I have acquired an Epsom QX-10 with manuals but there is a Is this an EPSON QX-10???? If so I will get you the BOOT DISK for it. MND> The manuals say that this machine requires MultiFonts CP/M MND> which was an extension of CP/M 2.2 I believe. I am not sure what this means. MND> My question is this : MND> MND> (i) Does anyone have a system disc on 5.25 inch floppy - I MND> can snail mail a disc for copying onto. Like I said, I will get you the boot disk if it is an EPSON QX-10. MND> MND> (ii) Does anyone know where I can ftp the files from - I may MND> be able to create a boot disc from another machine if MND> someone would tell me the disc format in terms of sector MND> and track layout at byte level (I love a hack!) Once again I haven't heard of Epsom QX-10 but have heard of an EPSON QX-10 as I have one. I will send you a copy of the BOOT disk. MND> Replies via email please (unless you feel that the rest of MND> Usenet may benefit from the information {8-) I have no way of replying to you other then this new group as this is a a gated message between USENET and FIDONET. I hope this gets to you. Thanks, George ... Backup not found: (a)bort (r)etry (p)anic ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 14:15:32 GMT From: mamason@mitre-bedford.arpa (Mason) Subject: Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: In article <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> siddall@kenyon.edu writes: Path: linus.mitre.org!linus!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!kenyon.edu!siddall From: siddall@kenyon.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Date: 28 Apr 92 03:42:57 GMT Article-I.D.: kenyon.1992Apr27.224257.48 Organization: Kenyon College Lines: 10 I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Scott E. Siddall |Telephone: 614-427-5696 | |Director of Academic Computing - Kenyon College |Fax: 614-427-5824 | |Information and Computing Services |Internet: | |Gambier, Ohio 43022 | SIDDALL@VAX001.KENYON.EDU| \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ The keyboard for the MDT-60 terminal which I understand to be the most prevalent model is the same one used on Heath 89's. I suspect your Heath/Zenith dealer could help you. |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| -- |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 01:18:23 GMT From: ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!glia!jfoy@decwrl.dec.com (Jeff Foy) Subject: Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: In <47278@dime.cs.umass.edu> steve@cs.umass.edu (Steve Cook) writes: >Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to >remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert >an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape >code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M >the problem becomes obvious. >I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future >problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe >all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? If you're using WordStar 4.0 under CP/M, ^QU (Quick Unformat is my favorite description for this one). [NOTE: That is control Q U] You might want to hit a ^B (control B) as I don't recall if it reformats paragraphs correctly. If, however, you are using an earlier version of WordStar, stripping the eigth bit of each byte in the file works just fine. Here's an easy method using PIP: PIP NEWFILE.NAM=OLDFILE.NAM[Z] NOTE: You'd NEVER want to do this to a binary file (like .COM) for obvious reasons! :) >It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! For SHAME! :) Jeff -- signature file is on strike. ------------------------------ Date: 4 May 92 15:29:03 GMT From: ulowell!woods.ulowell.edu!welchb@uunet.uu.net Subject: Want disk drive for Amstrad. Message-ID: <1992May4.102903.1@woods.ulowell.edu> The computer I am talking about is an Amstrad Personal Computer Word Processor, Model PCW8256. This is actually a CP/M machine, i.e. 8-bit, which uses a proprietary 3-inch diskette (as opposed to 3.5 inch). I bought mine when Sears Roebuck ran a sale a few years ago, selling them as word processors running Locomotive software, not as general purpose computers. I desire to buy the second or "B" drive. I also might like to acquire the interface which allows the computer to talk to a modem. I know that such a thing exists, but I do not have the model name or number. Also, if anyone knows if the Locomotive software is available for other (more modern) computers, please let me know. Or, if you have suggestions for a different newsgroup to post this in, let me know that also. -- Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #33 ************************************ 7-May-92 18:48:24-MDT,9390;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 7 May 92 18:45:20 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #34 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920507184521.V92N34@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Thu, 7 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 34 Today's Topics: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. EZCPR question..... How do you extract files from .LBR files? Re: CP/M questions Re: EZCPR question..... SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 May 92 22:25 EDT From: JSHIN@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. I am moving soon, and need to "liquidate" the following items. I am asking for $200 per item + shipping and insurance... but be ready to negotiate. CONTACT ME DIRECTLY AT SHIN@NewSchool.EDU or call (718) 442-1455, Su-Tu (413) 549-3832, We-Sa 1. Epson QX-10 (CP/M). Runs 4MHz Z80. Two DS/DD 5-1/4 380K drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 256K RAM (108K RAM Drive) B/W Monitor. Incredible graphics routines. I will send XBIOS info. Whole bunch of stuff downloaded from SIMTEL. Epson RX-80 printer with the ninth pin broken... thrown in 'cause they're friends. 2. Zenith Eazy PC (PC-comp.) Two DS/DD 3-1/2 720 drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 512K RAM. NOT EXPANDABLE. B/W Monitor. CGA Compatible. Catch: Broken "J" Key... DOS 5.0 lets you do Alt-7-4, etc. (Or you can grab a new one for $35 or so.) 3. A quart or so of latest-edition LSI's... Includes two each of DSP chips, 1M EPROMS, high-speed SRAM, 16*16 multipliers, CGA controller (may be just one), 1200BPS Modem chipset, 1MB pseudo-static RAM, etc. Wonderful for tinkerers! I will send you data sheet or at least Phone # where you can get them. Contact me for details. 4. 256K * 8/9 Simms of different speeds. 120-200ns. I think I have 40 or so... and will let go for $100. And, for the asking, you can get an almost complete and up-to-date set of Texas Instruments Data Books... otherwised destined for the dumpster. (NYC doesn't recycle books from residence.) Make me an offer. I could arrange deliver-pickup in NYC and Western Mass. Again, please contact me directly, and not through this list. THANKS!!! -John (SHIN@Newschool.edu, JSHIN@Hamp.Hampshire.edu) P.S. remember: these are my babies, and am letting go only because I have to move quite a distance... and can't fit them all in the car or afford to ship them safely. :-( Please take good care of them! ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 03:55:04 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u20565@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: EZCPR question..... Message-ID: <92122.225504U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> I brought back my Commodore 128 from death (I had it boxed up in the basement) and curiosity and nostalgia made me look at some disks. As you may or may not know, the Commodore 128 can run CP/M, CP/M 3.0 Plus to be exact. I had a bunch of diskettes from when I used to go to a local computer club. I had a bunch of CP/M diskettes (had no idea what was on them) and ran across EZCPR. At the time I had no idea what it was and shrugged it off. Since then I learned it apparently is the predecessor to ZCPR a replacement of the console command processor (CCP). Not that this is critical or anything, but can it be used with CP/M 3.0? Just curiosity, since then a machine with 10 megs of RAM has occupied my desk for a while (80386), no life or death situation...... ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 04:00:15 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!uicvm.uic.edu!u20565@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: How do you extract files from .LBR files? Message-ID: <92122.230015U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> I never was a CP/M guru, a bit too young, I do have an old Commodore 128 though. Even though MS-DOS has longed replaced it as my primary computer I was curious to see what kinds of CP/M software exists at various archive sites. I did use my old C128 when I was a sophmore in college and while I did have an account and therefore access to the net I was hopelessly ignorant of this fact and never took advantage of that fact (back then). Alll I largely see is .LBR files. If memory serves these are similar to the ubiquitous .ZIP files from the MS-DOS world except that .LBR files are simply files which have been grouped to form one file and not necessarily compressed? Am I right? A la UNIX's TAR? Well, regardless of whether they are compressed or not, I would like to extract files (assuming I'm right). I have a program called LU.COM on old CP/M diskette and surmised that this might be what I need. However I received a prompt and no matter what I typed in all I received was a question mark and some mish mash. So the question is, how to extract files from .LBR files? Please respond directly, thanks, Mario Pacheco ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 92 01:01:29 GMT From: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu!entropy@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (maximum entropy) Subject: Re: CP/M questions Message-ID: In article <56618@hydra.gatech.EDU> jm59@prism.gatech.EDU (MILLS,JOHN M.) writes: As far as I know, cp/m68k was DRI's attempt to grab hold of the 68000 market. If cp/m68k wasn't a _lot_ more functional than cp/m, I would say it deservedly sank without a trace. (Did Force use this o.s. at some point?) CP/M-68K was only -one- of their attempts to get a piece of the 68K market. GEM (Graphic Environment Manager) was developed for both the Intel and Motorola processors, and is the default OS environment on the Atari ST (a 68000 machine.) Cheers, entropy -- entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu entropy. . .it's not just a good idea, it's the second law. Boycott AT&T, Lotus, Apple, Ashton-Tate and Xerox. Join the League for Programming Freedom! Write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu for more information. ------------------------------ Date: 3 May 92 02:25:18 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!ddsw1!carson@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Carson Wilson) Subject: Re: EZCPR question..... Message-ID: <1992May3.022518.6933@ddsw1.mcs.com> In article <92122.225504U20565@uicvm.uic.edu> writes: > >As you may or may not know, the Commodore 128 can run CP/M, CP/M 3.0 Plus >to be exact. I had a bunch of diskettes from when I used to go to a local >computer club. I had a bunch of CP/M diskettes (had no idea what was on >them) and ran across EZCPR. At the time I had no idea what it was and >shrugged it off. Since then I learned it apparently is the predecessor >to ZCPR a replacement of the console command processor (CCP). Not that this >is critical or anything, but can it be used with CP/M 3.0? > EZCPR is for CP/M 2.2 and compatible operating systems only. Z3PLUS, a commercial product, implements Z System for CP/M Plus. It's about $50 from Sage Microsystems. I _think_ it runs on the 128 in CP/M mode, but am uncertain. -- -Carson Wilson carson@ddsw1.uucp ------------------------------ Date: 24 Apr 92 13:42:10 GMT From: prism!comlab.gatech.edu!bob@gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) Subject: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Message-ID: <55630@hydra.gatech.EDU> Many thanks to those who responded to my question about Z80 disassemblers. Wow, I didn't know there was still so much CP/M and Z80 stuff around. I am impressed by all the goodies that are available, many of them home grown. Anyway, on to the summary. Most people mentioned some of the CP/M based disassemblers available on SIMTEL. Evidently there is even a CP/M emulator which will run these on a non-CP/M box. Neat! There are also some cross-disassemblers available from uunet and from the authors directly. Finally, there is at least one commercial product from Pseudo Corp in Newport News, VA. A list of all the different disassemblers and related stuff follows. Z80 Disassemblers ZDASM from SIMTEL20 DAZZLESTAR from SIMTEL20 Z80-DIS22 from SIMTEL20 Z8E from SIMTEL20 DIS80 from astro.as.arizioni.edu ZMAC from uunet FRANKENSTEIN from wuarchive.wustl.edu CP/M Emulator Z80MU52b from SIMTEL20 Many thanks to those who responded. Clarence Wilkerson Ernie Kent Rich Drushel Jon Saxton Mike Spenser Tom Trebisky Jim Asman Paul Lenz Clyde Smith-Stubbs Eric Sosman Matt Kidd David Gingold Bob -- Bob Baggerman ! bob@comlab.gatech.edu Communications Laboratory ! rwb@csdvax.gatech.edu Georgia Tech Research Institute ! qseclrb@prism.gatech.edu Atlanta, GA 30332 USA ! 404-894-3525 or 404-528-7660 ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #34 ************************************ 9-May-92 23:51:29-MDT,9171;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 9 May 92 23:45:05 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #35 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920509234505.V92N35@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 9 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 35 Today's Topics: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. File transfers for Epson PX-8 games Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler TRS-80 Emulator (Rom Image) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 May 92 22:25 EDT From: JSHIN@hamp.hampshire.edu Subject: !For Sale... URGENT!!! $200 per deal. I am moving soon, and need to "liquidate" the following items. I am asking for $200 per item + shipping and insurance... but be ready to negotiate. CONTACT ME DIRECTLY AT SHIN@NewSchool.EDU or call (718) 442-1455, Su-Tu (413) 549-3832, We-Sa 1. Epson QX-10 (CP/M). Runs 4MHz Z80. Two DS/DD 5-1/4 380K drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 256K RAM (108K RAM Drive) B/W Monitor. Incredible graphics routines. I will send XBIOS info. Whole bunch of stuff downloaded from SIMTEL. Epson RX-80 printer with the ninth pin broken... thrown in 'cause they're friends. 2. Zenith Eazy PC (PC-comp.) Two DS/DD 3-1/2 720 drives. Serial Port. Parallel Port. 512K RAM. NOT EXPANDABLE. B/W Monitor. CGA Compatible. Catch: Broken "J" Key... DOS 5.0 lets you do Alt-7-4, etc. (Or you can grab a new one for $35 or so.) 3. A quart or so of latest-edition LSI's... Includes two each of DSP chips, 1M EPROMS, high-speed SRAM, 16*16 multipliers, CGA controller (may be just one), 1200BPS Modem chipset, 1MB pseudo-static RAM, etc. Wonderful for tinkerers! I will send you data sheet or at least Phone # where you can get them. Contact me for details. 4. 256K * 8/9 Simms of different speeds. 120-200ns. I think I have 40 or so... and will let go for $100. And, for the asking, you can get an almost complete and up-to-date set of Texas Instruments Data Books... otherwised destined for the dumpster. (NYC doesn't recycle books from residence.) Make me an offer. I could arrange deliver-pickup in NYC and Western Mass. Again, please contact me directly, and not through this list. THANKS!!! -John (SHIN@Newschool.edu, JSHIN@Hamp.Hampshire.edu) P.S. remember: these are my babies, and am letting go only because I have to move quite a distance... and can't fit them all in the car or afford to ship them safely. :-( Please take good care of them! ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 92 22:58:10 GMT From: olivea!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news-is-not-mail@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Christopher G. Petrilli) Subject: File transfers for Epson PX-8 Message-ID: A friend of mine just got an Epson PX-8 and we need some way to transfer files to and from it. The terminal program he has for it only does ASCII transfers and we have lots of programs (including other term programs) that we'd like to be able to use with it. If anyone has any kind of file transfer utility, or term program that they could send him on PX-8 tape or disk we would be eternally grateful. Please direct your responses directly to him at: aggedor@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Thanks. -- | Chris Petrilli | petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu, petrilli@cs.utexas.edu | I don't even speak for myself. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 92 11:18:13 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!wogg0743@ucbvax (William Shakespeare) Subject: games Message-ID: <1992Apr25.111813.14725@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Is there a good ftp archive out there for CPM games? I remember an expanded version of the old game Adventure (it had Excalibur in it, somewhere near the Hall of the Mountain King). bill gulstad -- William ("Shakespeare") Gulstad / So where are the C.S. babes? wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu / Joni Mitchell for President! I vote, so I can complain! / Did you vote? Then don't complain! Republican is the opposite of democracy! / Tune in, drop out, log on. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:34:40 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Message-ID: roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes: > I have a program called UNIFORM that can read/write/format about 80 > different formats including DOS 360k. I do not remember the name of > the company that put it out. The company is called MicroSolutions, Inc. out of DeKalb, IL. The current version of Uniform will not run (sadly) under MS-DOS 5.00. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:38:11 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: > To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C > compiler for CP/M. I've heard tell that Hi-Tech C is ANSI-compliant. But don't quote me on that... :-) ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:26:50 GMT From: sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Message-ID: wspas59@urc.tue.nl (Rob Gijsbers) writes: > Does anybody know emulators for other 64KB micros, which I could > run on my z80 system (MSX-2), if necessary with CP/M+ ? > I know of a c64 emulator that runs with MS-DOS. Isn't there something ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > like that for our systems ? Can you tell me where I can get this if this is shareware/public domain? Thanks e 6 in advance. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:30:38 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: TRS-80 cross compiler/emulator etc. Message-ID: laverman@cs.rug.nl (Bert Laverman) writes: > There is a TRS-80 emulator for PC's. try the comp.sys.tandy group. Since I'm a sucker for emulators, could you e-mail me where I can get this program? I don't carry comp.sys.tandy. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Apr 92 16:43:10 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!csus.edu!csusac!sactoh0!ijpc!ianj@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Ian Justman) Subject: Re: WANTED: Z80 disassembler Message-ID: larry@lfergus.UUCP (Larry Moore) writes: > Two possibilities that run under CP/M that I'd recommend are Z8E > (version 35) and DazzleStar. Z3E is available with source code > but the Dazzlestar source (in Pascal) hasn't been released yet. > I think both are available for FTP from one of the mirror sites - > failing that, they uuencode to about 120K and can be mailed. There's a great program called "Z80DIS" which has some artificial intelligence which gives it an idea how to disassemble a program. You can find it on SIMTEL20 or any good BBS. Z8E's main function is as a debugger, and it fills that bill BEAUTIFULLY!!!!! It's the best debugger I've come across yet, free or commercial. I don't have anything to say about the stuff that Sage Microsystems East has (hi, Jay!) because I've never tried it. But yes, it's great to have the source code for Z8E. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 May 92 22:07:52 EDT From: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu (Etop Udoh) Subject: TRS-80 Emulator (Rom Image) Message-ID: <9205080207.AA29783@st6000.sct.edu> hi, the model 4P which i have came with the ROM image on disk, and that would have to be loaded before you could get into Model III mode.... I still have that machine, among 10 or 12 others....that wouldn't be the file that you need would it ???? ................................................................. : ------------------- SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY : : | EUDOH@SCT.EDU | MARIETTA, GEORGIA : : ------------------- : : Abandon all hope ye who have entered " CYBERSPACE " : :...............................................................: ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #35 ************************************ 10-May-92 17:54:43-MDT,9329;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 10 May 92 17:45:19 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #36 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920510174520.V92N36@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 10 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 36 Today's Topics: Computer Books and Magazines For Sale Epsom QX-10 == HELP! ezcpr question..... Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers S-100 cards for sale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Apr 92 20:38:53 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu!jrblack@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (James Roger Black) Subject: Computer Books and Magazines For Sale Message-ID: <12411@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Computer books by Osborne for sale: Introduction to Microcomputers, Volume I: Basic Concepts Z80 Assembly Language Programming Z80 Assembly Language Subroutines Z80 Programming for Logic Design Price: $5 each, $15 for the whole pile. You pay shipping. Computer magazines for sale: S-100 Journal #4 through #7 Supermicro #1 Scientific American 9/77 ("Microelectronics") Popular Science 3/79 ("Home Computers") Infoworld 4/81 ("Computer Languages") Price: $25 for the whole pile. You pay shipping. Buy all the books AND all the magazines, and I'll knock off another $5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Black jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 23:20:07 GMT From: mcsun!uknet!strath-cs!st-and!mnd@uunet.uu.net (Martin N Dunstan) Subject: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Message-ID: <1992Apr27.232007.29645@st-andrews.ac.uk> Hi, I have acquired an Epsom QX-10 with manuals but there is a wee problem - it doesn't have a boot disc! (I hasten to add that I didn't buy this but was asked to check it). Epsom were asked about this machine but didn't know anything about it so this is about the only place I can ask - if it's an FAQ (which I somewhat doubt {8-) then please mail me the FAQ list! The manuals say that this machine requires MultiFonts CP/M which was an extension of CP/M 2.2 I believe. My question is this : (i) Does anyone have a system disc on 5.25 inch floppy - I can snail mail a disc for copying onto. (ii) Does anyone know where I can ftp the files from - I may be able to create a boot disc from another machine if someone would tell me the disc format in terms of sector and track layout at byte level (I love a hack!) (iii) Any other ideas on how to get this machine running? Replies via email please (unless you feel that the rest of Usenet may benefit from the information {8-) Martin Dunstan (mnd@uk.ac.st-andrews) ------------------------------ Date: 8 May 92 23:49:48 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!canrem!dosgate![ray.whidden%canrem.com]@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (ray whidden) Subject: ezcpr question..... Message-ID: <1992May8.1042.2454@dosgate> Hi Carson and other C=128 CP/M users, CW>EZCPR is for CP/M 2.2 and compatible operating systems only. Z3PLUS, a CW>commercial product, implements Z System for CP/M Plus. It's about $50 CW>from Sage Microsystems. I _think_ it runs on the 128 in CP/M mode, but am CW>uncertain. Z3Plus certainly DOES run on the C=128 in CP/M mode and works quite nicely. I also have DosDisk, from Plu*Perfect, too, and it allows and installable MS-DOS file system, just like OS/2 finally does with HFPS. However, mines been working for at least two years. Sorry, IBM, couldn't resist. Regards, Ray Internet: ray.whidden@canrem.com : RIME : ->CRS : 46 Campania Crescent, UUCP: canrem!ray.whidden FidoNet: 1:250/632 : Scarborough, Ontario M1V 2E9 * DeLuxe2 1.21 #4419 * DesqView: Windex for Windows -- Canada Remote Systems - Toronto, Ontario/Detroit, MI World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044 ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 17:05:04 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: CP/M <-> DOS disks Message-ID: <1992Apr27.170504.2012@baron.uucp> ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: >roger@neptons.UUCP (Roger Barth) writes: > >> I have a program called UNIFORM that can read/write/format about 80 >> different formats including DOS 360k. I do not remember the name of >> the company that put it out. > >The company is called MicroSolutions, Inc. out of DeKalb, IL. >The current version of Uniform will not run (sadly) under MS-DOS >5.00. That is interesting, in that I have it running on an XT clone under PC DOS 5.0, but it also does not run properly under DR DOS 6.0 (it reads OK, but will not write to the disk) on my AT clone. Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 21:46:40 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!tech@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Loken) Subject: Re: CP/M Plus manual & K&R C Message-ID: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey) writes: >To the best of my knowledge there is no ANSI compatible C >compiler for CP/M. Just another benifit to using CP/M. I use the Software Toolworks C compiler, I am not sure that the ANSI C Standards Committee had been struck yet when that compiler went on sale. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "In England, Justice is Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : open to all, like the tech@cs.AthabascaU.CA : Ritz Hotel." - Lord {atha|aunro}!cs.athabascau.ca!tech : Justice Sir James Mathew ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 13:52:24 GMT From: mcsun!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!wittig@uunet.uu.net (Georg Wittig) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Z80 disassemblers Message-ID: In <55630@hydra.gatech.EDU> bob@comlab.gatech.edu (Bob Baggerman) writes: >Z80 Disassemblers > ZDASM from SIMTEL20 > DAZZLESTAR from SIMTEL20 > Z80-DIS22 from SIMTEL20 > Z8E from SIMTEL20 > DIS80 from astro.as.arizioni.edu > ZMAC from uunet > FRANKENSTEIN from wuarchive.wustl.edu DASM *is* a disassembler, but ZMAC is *not*. ZMAC is an assembler which not even can process user defined macros (as the name suggests). -- "Freedom's just another word | Georg Wittig GMD-I8.IT P.O.Box 1316 for nothing left to lose" | D-W-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 (Germany) | email: wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (J. Joplin, K. Kristofferson) | telephone: (+49) 2241 14-2294 ------------------------------ Date: 27 Apr 92 20:28:19 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu!jrblack@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (James Roger Black) Subject: S-100 cards for sale Message-ID: <12409@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> S-100 cards for sale: 1 ea Solid State Music "PB1" 2708/2716 Eprom programmer and software 1 ea S-100 extender board with logic probe (Mullen "TB-4") 2 ea MP/M Support Module (Digiac "Maps-1000": serial, parallel, interrupt controller, memory management) 2 ea 16K memory card (Seattle Computer Products "16K Plus"--no documentation) 1 ea Floppy Disk Controller (Micromation "Doubler"--no documentation) 1 ea Floppy Disk Controller (Ithaca Intersystems "IA-2020/FDC-2/DCB-II") 2 ea 64K dynamic ram board (Ithaca Intersystems "IA-2030") 1 ea multi-channel I/O board (Ithaca Intersystems "IA-1190": serial, parallel, interrupt controller) 1 ea clock/calendar (Computertime "ComputerWatch") 1 ea 300-baud modem board (Potomac Micro Magic "MM-103") All come with full documentation (unless otherwise noted) and cables. All were functioning when equipment was decommissioned, but is being sold "as is" because I have no way to test any of it. Price: One board for $10, 2 for $15, 3 for $20, add $5 per board for more. You pay shipping (and insurance if desired). If you want them all--make me an offer! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Black jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #36 ************************************ 12-May-92 16:21:51-MDT,14190;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 12 May 92 16:15:52 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #37 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920512161553.V92N37@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 12 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 37 Today's Topics: *Big Board: Based CPM-80 Almost-A-Kit for Sale A Few CP/M Questions Disk Drive for Amstrad PCW Last Call on Surplus Software and Hardware QX-10 info Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Uniform ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 May 1992 14:56:50 PDT From: Raymond_J._Clark.Wbst311@xerox.com Subject: *Big Board: Based CPM-80 Almost-A-Kit for Sale Message-ID: <"12-May-92 17:56:44".*.Raymond_J._Clark.Wbst311@Xerox.com> The "Big Board" was a very popular CPM-80 system in the early '80s before the IBM PC came out. It is virtually identical wire for wire to the Xerox 820. I have 98s% of everything, just never built it. Everything in emaculate condition. $150 or best offer. Big-Board which features: Z80 CPU Board designed for 2.5MHz, most owners ran at 4M. I have all 4M parts. Z80 SIO (2 serial ports, One will be the console if you talk to it first on booting) Z80 CTC Timer Chip Z80 PIO Parallel ports chip. I think 2 of 'em. One used for Console Keyboard if you talk to it first on booting. 1771 Floppy disk controller chip, single density. See below- I have a double density upgrade kit. Video On-board video controller generates 80x25 character display. RAM 64K using 4116s. I have a 256K expansion board, see below. ROM Monitor source, both on 8" single sided single density floppy and on IBM-PC floppy. Documentation All original documentation including mulitple copies of the bare board to plan and document any modification. Data sheets for all Z80 parts, Z80 assembly language manual & reference card. State of assembly All ICs socketed with gold machined contact Augat sockets. 90% of passive components installed. Careful record of assembly to date following assembly manual and schematic with red pencil. Beautiful job of assembling by a perfectionist (me). Single in-line sockets were used so you can cut and jumper between the pins on the top side of the board. Components included Almost everything, two of some things. Components missing No Problems: COM 8116 Dual Baud Rate Generator Jameco has in stock for $4.95 74136 74LS151 Crystals: 14.31818, 20.0, 5.0688 MHz (Need 32MHz XTL to run CPU at 4M) Perhaps 10 misc. capacitors Data sheets for almost everything, including but not limited to all z80 parts, com8116, 1771, 2797. The rest is standard TTL, 4116 DRAM, or 2114 SRAM. Modifications Modifications were planned for: Run at 4MHz Fix a video snow problem (faster character generator and planned change included. Has been tested elsewhere) Change the video XTL frequency and clock divider to get a wider display. Patches for these may have been started on the board, although I am 99% sure they were not. The changes were very simple, and could be backed out with a jumper or two using the schematics and copies of the bare board. They will be documented if done, and there are probably notes on exactly what was planned, but no guarantees. Single in-line sockets were used so you can cut and jumper between the pins on the top side of the board. 256K expansion board. You loose the lower 64K. I think the software that came with it uses it for a RAM disk (floppy comes with). I have a SIG/M disk which is supposed to have Trevor Marshall's source to use it for track buffering. Double Density Kit Daughter board for 1771 socket to use 2797. No software, although I assume it should be possible to find similar software to do the blocking and deblocking and tweek it for this chip. Data sheets included. Floppy drives Two Shugart 801 single sided 8 inch drives, brand new, never out of box. Video Monitor Brand new, never out of box. Includes schematic. No case. Comes with separate open fram 15v 1A power supply to run it. Keyboard Very nice keyboard. Includes schematic. Parallel data with strobe (which is what big board wants). Software Small C compiler, software to utilize 256K RAM board, z80 assembler, misc disks with unknown S/W (On 8 inch single density floppies). IBM-PC floppy with source for ROM monitor, small-C, unknown other (it's been a long time...). Power Supplies A Xerox 820 supply. Switching supply with +5, -12, +12. I cannot say if this is adequate or not. 15v 1A for the video display. You also need a 24 volt supply for the floppies. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:56:49 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: A Few CP/M Questions Message-ID: <9205110956.AA26569@LL.MIT.EDU> Lou Glassy asked a few CP/M questions. >> --What machines does CP/M68K run on? Was this a product of >> DRI, or of some other vendor? I don't know very much about this, but there were a couple of Motorola 68000-based computers that had CP/M-68K. The Sage computer (no relation to me) was one of them. I don't think there has been any activity in this area for many years. >> --Is CP/M still supported (ie sold, having apps developed for) >> by any current vendor? If not, is the source code for it available? There is still a tremendous amount of activity in the 8-bit CP/M- compatible computing area. Most of this centers around Z-System, a modern replacement for CP/M. Besides occasional new versions of the operating system itself, quite a few applications have appeared. Many new public- domain programs appear every month and are distributed by bulletin board and via the Z-System Software Update Service (ZSUS). There have also been a number of commercial applications, such as BDS Z (a Z-System version of the venerable BDS C compiler), ZMATE (a macro text editor derived from PMATE), and ZMAC (a state-of-the-art macro assembler/linker/librarian package). You ask about source code. I assume you mean for the operating system. Disassembled source code for CP/M has been floating around for at least a decade (but who would want it!). Source code for versions of ZCPR (which replaces the CP/M command processor) through 3.3 has been released; the source code to version 3.4 is available from me as a commercial product. There are several BDOS replacements, both public-domain and commercial. The PD ones are generally available in source-code form. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:56:54 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: Disk Drive for Amstrad PCW Message-ID: <9205110956.AA26581@LL.MIT.EDU> Brendan Welch was looking for a disk drive for the Amstrad PCW computer. I can highly recommend the following source for CP/M products in general and Amstrad products especially: Elliam Associates P.O. Box 2664 Atascadero, CA 93423 I'm afraid I don't have the phone number with me here at work. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:34:12 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: Last Call on Surplus Software and Hardware Message-ID: <9205110934.AA26182@LL.MIT.EDU> I think I have given people long enough to express an interest in the surplus items in the collection of the Zi/Tel Group of the Boston Computer Society. This is the last notice I will publish. These items can be yours in return for a contribution to help fund user group activities. You may communicate an offer in any of the following ways: (1) by leaving a message on the Zi/Tel BBS in the Boston area at 617-965-7046 (or 617-965-7785 to limit access only to the USR Courier HST modem on line 2) (2) by leaving a message on Jay Sage's Z-Node at 617-965-7259 (logon password is DDT) (3) leaving GEnie mail for JAY.SAGE (4) sending email to Jay Sage on Internet at the following address: sage@ll.mit.edu (5) sending postal mail to Jay Sage at 1435 Centre Street Newton, MA 02159-2469 The email methods (first four methods above) would be best. When it comes time to send money, send a check payable to "BCS ZI/TEL" to the Newton Centre address listed above. Now for the inventory of items! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The hard-sectored diskettes for NorthStar computers have all been spoken for, but there are still some other hard-sector diskettes available. 18 boxes of 8" 32-sector hard-sector diskettes 7 boxes of 5.25" 16-sector hard-sector diskettes +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Some of the miscellaneous hardware remains. Much of it will be discarded or stripped for parts very soon. 1 Soroc 135 terminal 1 Kaypro that needs work (loose connector in power supply is part of problem, certainly good for parts) 1 mint condition Kaypro 2 with ComRiter diasy-wheel printer, original manuals 1 Osborne 1, condition unknown These items probably make sense only for people in the greater Boston area who can pick them up from me. I took the broken Kaypro down to Trenton, but the person who had asked for it never showed up to claim it. I am about to pull out the disk drives and chuck the rest. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ There are still quite a few copies of WordStar 3.30 and MailMerge 3.31 in sealed, shrink-wrapped boxes, originally for Apple CP/M. Many copies already found their way to new homes with satisfied owners. The rest will soon be given to the trash collectors. There might be a few other MicroPro items left. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ There are still a few application paks for the HP-41 calculator. I don't remember which they are. Ask if you have any interest. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Someone at Trenton took one copy of each of the Sony SMC-70 software packages. These are probably not worth the cost of shipping anywhere, but if you have an interest, now is the time to speak up. I am going to throw away the remaining copies at my next opportunity (perhaps after pulling out the 3.5" diskettes for reuse and seeing if the binders could be put to any good use). ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 14:58:09 EDT From: "John Juncholl Shin the Nuss" Subject: QX-10 info Message-ID: Sorry... I deleted the message before I wrote down all of the address. I have a QX-10 and oodles of info you would like. It took me a couple of dozen calls to locate the last Epson CP/M boot disk as well as XBIOS info and source listing... now that I have it, I'm willing to share, so come and get it! -John ---------------------------------------------- ******----- | But, of course! | -----****** ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 03:42:57 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!kenyon.edu!siddall@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Scott E. Siddall |Telephone: 614-427-5696 | |Director of Academic Computing - Kenyon College |Fax: 614-427-5824 | |Information and Computing Services |Internet: | |Gambier, Ohio 43022 | SIDDALL@VAX001.KENYON.EDU| \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 92 09:23:38 -0400 From: Jay Sage Subject: Uniform Message-ID: <9205110923.AA26051@LL.MIT.EDU> Last Friday I called Micro Solutions to ask about the problem of running Uniform under MS-DOS 5. What they told me is that the current version, 2.17, fully supports MS-DOS 5. However, it does not, and probably never will, run under DR DOS 6. Updates to the current version can be obtained by sending an original distribution diskette along with a check for $18 to Technical Support Department Micro Solutions, Inc. 132 West Lincoln Highway DeKalb, IL 60115 They told me to be sure to include a note indicating what I was asking for and giving my address and phone number. Since I am using DR DOS 6, I decided to experiment with 22DISK instead. As far as I can tell, it runs perfectly (can anyone else confirm this). I suppose that this is typical of shareware: way ahead of the commercial houses. However, 22DISK, like MediaMaster, does not do what Uniform does. One can only format diskettes and copy files to and from the foreign-format diskette. Uniform turns the foreign-format drive into a virtual DOS drive on which one can use whatever tools one wishes. -- Jay Sage ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #37 ************************************ 13-May-92 18:51:53-MDT,11277;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 May 92 18:45:32 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #38 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920513184533.V92N38@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Wed, 13 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 38 Today's Topics: os needed Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Re: Master drive (2 msgs) Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards (2 msgs) Re: Uniform ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 29 Apr 92 01:40:24 GMT From: rudy.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!zwiernik@rutgers.edu (Ron Zwiernik) Subject: os needed Message-ID: Hi, I purchased an Altos series 5-5DA without an OS or doc's. Could someone help me out? It uses an ST-506 Hard Disk and a 5.25" floppy. I would like to use this system as a BBS, but without an doc's or a working OS thats a bit tough :) Ron Swiernik zwiernik@pilot.njin.net ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 23:30:25 GMT From: ryptyde!tommy@nosc.mil (Tom Williams) Subject: Re: emulators for z80/cpm systems Message-ID: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: > wspas59@urc.tue.nl (Rob Gijsbers) writes: > > > I know of a c64 emulator that runs with MS-DOS. Isn't there something > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Who makes a 64 emulator for DOS? I know of one for the Amiga, which was fairly successful, except when trying to load a protected program that used the 1541's programmability to prevent copying. But I wasn't aware of a 64 emulator for DOS. Of course, even if there were one, there's no way a DOS disk can read a 64 disk (MFM vs. GCR). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | "The only winning move is .. | Tom Williams, Lemon Grove, CA. | | not to play." -Joshua, `WarGames' | Internet: tommy@netlink.cts.com | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 17:03:35 GMT From: snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!wieland@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) Subject: Re: Master drive Message-ID: <1992May13.170335.16878@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> In article <1992May11.220125.3970@CS.ORST.EDU> peterse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Erik Petersen) writes: >I have just finished building a Ram Drive for my S-100. > >What I would like to do is patch the BDOS so that it logs >Drive E in after reseting the drive system, does anyone know >how to do this. (I can't trace the call because DDT chokes >when you try to trace the BDOS.) > >I am running CP/M 2.2. > >Erik Petersen Actually, CP/M 2.2 logs in drive A because it needs to read the CCP (and possibly BDOS) from the boot tracks. Perhaps a better way to handle it would be to modify your BIOS so that you can change the physical to logical drive mapping. Then, assuming that you can sysgen the RAM disk, you could have a startup EX or ZEX script that would sysgen your RAM disk and remap it as drive A. The TurboBIOS for the Kaypro allows you to do this -- warm- booting from the RAM disk is so quick you won't believe it. You could also alter your BIOS so that it would read the system tracks from your RAM disk instead of drive A. The problem here is to sysgen the RAM disk BEFORE a warmboot occurs or you'll hang your system. Then instead of always accessing drive A, the CCP would just relog the current default drive. -- Jeffrey J. Wieland Communication Systems Programmer Agricultural Computer Network INTERNET: wieland@acn.purdue.edu ENTM 216 BITNET: WIELAND@PURCCVM Purdue University UUCP: ...!ecn-ee!wieland West Lafayette, IN 47907 FAX: (317)494-8342 (317)494-8333 ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 19:04:04 GMT From: ditka!unixhub!falcon.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!ralph@decwrl.dec.com (Ralph Becker-Szendy) Subject: Re: Master drive Message-ID: <3979@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> In article <1992May13.170335.16878@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> wieland@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey J Wieland) writes (edited): ... about the question why CP/M always logs in drive A after resetting the system ... >Actually, CP/M 2.2 logs in drive A because it needs to read >the CCP (and possibly BDOS) from the boot tracks. No. There are two different things here: Warm-boot and logging in. The warm-boot (reading CCP, BDOS and perhaps even the BIOS from the boot track) are done internally to the BIOS. If you have source to your BIOS (or if you wrote it yourself), you can modify such that it warmboots from any other drive (for example in my system, I can set the boot disk to any disk in the system, frequently I set it to drive C). Second, the BDOS will "log in" (read and decode the directory, build the ALV) a drive whenever you start it (which is usually after each warm-boot, although newer BDOS replacements can bypass this with a fast relog option). Even though I am warmbooting from drive C, the BDOS will still log in drive A. Now it gets even crazier: Assume I am booting from drive C, and my current working drive is B (I have set the current drive at address 0004h to "B" within the startup code for example). The BDOS will still log in drive A after each warmboot! The annoying thing is that even though I never need drive A I still have to have a functional and readable drive connected there. Lesson: Warmbooting is done internally to your BIOS. You may or may not be able to tell your BIOS to boot from a drive other than A. You have a current working disk, stored at location 0004h. The BDOS will always log in drive A when being started. >Perhaps >a better way to handle it would be to modify your BIOS so >that you can change the physical to logical drive mapping. >Then, assuming that you can sysgen the RAM disk, you could >have a startup EX or ZEX script that would sysgen your RAM >disk and remap it as drive A. That's the way to do it. If you don't like drive A being accessed all the time, declare your favorite drive to be A instead. -- Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU Stanford Linear Accelerator Center RALPH@SLACVM.BITNET M.S. 95, P.O. Box 4349, Stanford, CA 94309 (415)926-2701 My opinion. This is not SLAC, Stanford U, or the US DoE speaking. Just me. ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 16:18:19 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!author.ecn.purdue.edu!goerz@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas R Goerz) Subject: Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: <1992Apr28.161819.24534@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> In article <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> siddall@kenyon.edu writes: >I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working >order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know >of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? > Hey Scott, Depends which Morrow terminal you have!! They had three of them. One is a ADM 20/22, one a Zenith Green screen, and one a newer Zenith gold screen. Hence the keyboards are all interchangable with their counterparts!! I'm not sure of the Zenith terminal models but they are both very common!!! If you need info please yell. My father was the Morrow dealer in Indiana and I grew up with these machines. I also have complete service manauls for all of them!!! Chad MCCubbins not tom goerz@ecn.purdue.edu ------------------------------ Date: 28 Apr 92 14:15:32 GMT From: mamason@mitre-bedford.arpa (Mason) Subject: Re: Source of Morrow-compatible keyboards Message-ID: In article <1992Apr27.224257.48@kenyon.edu> siddall@kenyon.edu writes: Path: linus.mitre.org!linus!agate!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!kenyon.edu!siddall From: siddall@kenyon.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Date: 28 Apr 92 03:42:57 GMT Article-I.D.: kenyon.1992Apr27.224257.48 Organization: Kenyon College Lines: 10 I've got several Morrow MicroDesigns system units and monitors in fine working order, but the keyboards on the MD's died regularly with age. Does anyone know of a source of Morrow-compatible keyboards? /-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Scott E. Siddall |Telephone: 614-427-5696 | |Director of Academic Computing - Kenyon College |Fax: 614-427-5824 | |Information and Computing Services |Internet: | |Gambier, Ohio 43022 | SIDDALL@VAX001.KENYON.EDU| \-----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ The keyboard for the MDT-60 terminal which I understand to be the most prevalent model is the same one used on Heath 89's. I suspect your Heath/Zenith dealer could help you. |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| -- |Marc A. Mason | The MITRE Corporation | |Technical Assistant | Burlington Road | |UNIX Systems | Bedford, Massachusetts | |(617)-271-7506 | 01730 (mamason@mitre.org)| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 05:55:57 PDT From: Sprague.Wbst311@xerox.com Subject: Re: Uniform Message-ID: <"13-May-92 8:55:57 EDT".*.Michael_D._Sprague.wbst311@Xerox.com> > Since I am using DR DOS 6, I decided to experiment with 22DISK instead. > As far as I can tell, it runs perfectly (can anyone else confirm this). In general I have heard a lot of good about 22DISK (I am a registered owner), but I personally have had a *LOT* of trouble using it with the Xerox 820 series of computers (specifically the 820-II). My current 386 (which has a Compaticard IV for the floppy controller) works better with 22DISK than my old 286 did, but still does not work to my satisfaction. I have heard of plenty of other people who have had no problem using 22DISK with Xerox 820-II floppy disks though. I have had no trouble with other floppy formats that I have needed to use. The thing I like best about 22DSIK is that you can add disk formats to it, just by telling it the parameters. On the other hand, I have never had a problem with UNIFORM and Xerox 820-II floppies (on the same two computers). I have a real old copy though, and suspect I will shortly be getting their latest version. ~ Mike (Sprague.Wbst311@Xerox.Com) ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #38 ************************************ 17-May-92 10:49:31-MDT,9186;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 17 May 92 10:45:06 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #39 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920517104507.V92N39@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 17 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 39 Today's Topics: Exxon Series 500 Importing external data into DataStar database? Master drive NorthStar Advantage Re: CP/M Emulator for Unix Version 0.920 Re: EZCOM by Crown Communications, Inc., Dallas TX Re: Master drive ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 13 May 92 23:34:46 GMT From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news-is-not-mail@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Christopher G. Petrilli) Subject: Exxon Series 500 Message-ID: I just got a machine called an Exxon Series 500 Information Processor. I suppose, strictly speaking, it is not a CP/M machine, although it does use a Z-80 and lots of other Zilog parts, so I'm posting this here. The machine tries to run, but instead of starting up the word processing software it seems to be dumping me out into some kind of diagnostic monitor. Here is what comes up on the screen: ESOC SERIES 500 OPERATING SYSTEM ID: AK0006.1H RESET EXOS V BV0h > If I type a D at the prompt I get: 0D85 0BD5 C3FB 0B80 6008 0584 8181 2684 I can also type G xxxx where xxxx is a hex number and it apparently tries to execute whatever it finds at that address. I can get it to reboot by entering G 0. Entering G 0584 (yes, I tried all the "addresses" I got from D) seems to put it into some kind of memory inspection/modification mode, something like DDT. So, can anyone tell me about this machine? Anyone have any technical specs? Or (here's hoping) anyone have a CP/M boot disk for it? :) It looks like a really well built piece of hardware and I'd hate to have to just dismantle it for parts. It has 64K of memory on board, and empty sockets which lead me to believe it should be expandable to 256K. (I did get the operating manual and it mentions a 128K version.) Any info beyond the standard operations, or communications manuals would be helpful. Paul Prescott via pertilli@cs.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 92 15:28:20 GMT From: mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!iitmax!thssno@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Neil R. Ormos) Subject: Importing external data into DataStar database? Message-ID: <1992May14.152820.25841@iitmax.iit.edu> Illinois Tech Model Railroaders (ITMR) has acquired an old Sanyo SBC-1200 computer. It runs CP/M. We seem to have legitimate copies of DataStar and ReportStar, but the reference manuals (if any existed) have disappeared. We do have a couple of introductory or tutorial manuals. We have an existing machine-readable database which is stored in a flat file format, and we would like to import that data into DataStar so that we can use that product to maintain the database. The introductory manuals were good enough that we were able to successfully create a new test database and we have had no difficulty adding or updating records in the test database. However, all of our previous attempts to import old data without retyping it have failed. We are hoping someone on the net will help us out with the following. 1. DataStar appears to have a feature to allow "batch" entry files to be merged with the main database, but it appears to require that the "batch" entry file have been created with DataStar. When we experimented with using that feature to merge non-DataStar files, DataStar either erased the file or decided that there were no records in them. Does DataStar have a mechanism for importing data from external (i.e. non-DataStar) files? 2. We could probably reformat the existing database to fool DataStar into treating it as a native DataStar database, but we don't know the correct format. Is there publically accessible information describing the format of the data and index files? There does not seem to be any particular magic to DataStar data files--it looks like records are -delimited and fields are comma-delimited. However, I haven't been able to figure out the either the format of the index files or the way the index fields are calculated. Any help would be appreciated. Perhaps there are other ways to import the data we haven't thought of. Please mail responses to me. Thanks! --neil ormos wd8bdp thssno@iitmax.iit.edu ------------------------------ Date: 11 May 92 22:01:25 GMT From: usenetusenet@cs.orst.edu (Erik Petersen) Subject: Master drive Message-ID: <1992May11.220125.3970@CS.ORST.EDU> I have just finished building a Ram Drive for my S-100. The Ram Drive is FAST. Unfortunately, I've found a nasty piece of trivia about CP/M; there is a BDOS function that resets the drive system. (0DH, I think.) It logs all the drives out, sets the DMA to 80H, and then logs drive A back in. Since drive A is a 5-1/4" floppy, this is slow compared to logging in the Ram Drive. What I would like to do is patch the BDOS so that it logs Drive E in after reseting the drive system, does anyone know how to do this. (I can't trace the call because DDT chokes when you try to trace the BDOS.) I am running CP/M 2.2. Erik Petersen -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Petersen (Home Phone: 753-1829) peterse@mist.cs.ORST.EDU ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 04:26:00 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ucru2!ucrmath!starbuck@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (aaron greenwood) Subject: NorthStar Advantage Message-ID: <3922@ucru2.ucr.edu> I have a NorthStar Advantage purchased at a swap meet for ten bucks. I came with the monitor, 2 disk drives and keyboard in one unit. It did not come with a operating system, software or disks. Does anyone know of a users group in Southern California that I may contact to get a operating system and disks. I would very much like to get this old machine running. Thank you, -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Aaron J. Greenwood email: starbuck@ucrac1.ucr.edu Dept of Biochemistry starbuck@ucrmath.ucr.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 92 07:55:30 GMT From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Subject: Re: CP/M Emulator for Unix Version 0.920 Message-ID: <1992May14.075530.17830@athena.mit.edu> >>>from: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) >> >>I have a new version of my CP/M emulator ready. It isn't perfect yet (this >>is a really low priority) so I haven't given it a version of 1.00 yet. I >>sent mail to Mark Eichen who was kind enough to make previous versions >>available but haven't heard from him about this one yet. I just resent >>mail to him but in the meantime if someone else would also like to make >>it available just send me mail. I don't have direct ftp access but I >>can get it to sites who would be willing to make it available. D'Arcy: I got your earlier mail, and replied; I've attempted to reply to your most recent message as well. Druid doesn't seem to be in the UUCP maps at beacon.mit.edu (our major uucp gateway) so hopefully the explicit return path worked. If not, and you see this posting, just email the code directly to me and I'll put it up. _Mark_ MIT Student Information Processing Board ------------------------------ Date: 12 May 92 07:27:53 GMT From: brahms.udel.edu!hamilton@louie.udel.edu (Andrew W Hamilton) Subject: Re: EZCOM by Crown Communications, Inc., Dallas TX Message-ID: <29428@brahms.udel.edu> In article <1992May6.001711.15938@acsu.buffalo.edu> v125kjg8@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Curtis R. Anderson) writes: > >Can I guess that's the same Crown that's in the audio business? That is, the >crown to the left of the word CROWN looks like a crown of some sort? They are >still around, making things like 5kW power amps and larger. I think the Crown of stadium amp fame is based in Indiana (I have a cousin who used to work/still works for them.). So I don't think this was made by them. J. P. Grenert hamilton@brahms.udel.edu ------------------------------ Date: 15 May 92 18:41:27 GMT From: sparkyfs.erg.sri.com!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!ea.ecn.purdue.edu!wieland@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Jeffrey J Wieland) Subject: Re: Master drive Message-ID: <1992May15.184127.24873@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #39 ************************************ 19-May-92 21:20:00-MDT,9828;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 19 May 92 21:15:25 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #40 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920519211526.V92N40@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Tue, 19 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 40 Today's Topics: CPM on Franklin Ace? Looking for VT100 emulator in Z80 source Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting Re: CP/M BIOS calls / DEC VT180 (ROBIN) Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Re: NorthStar Advantage Re: Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 16 May 92 17:39:56 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!vax1.umkc.edu!lbartel@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CPM on Franklin Ace? Message-ID: <1992May16.113956.3197@vax1.umkc.edu> Has anyone used CPM and Wordstar on a Franklin Ace 2200, Apple IIe/c compat? Will it even work? I was recently given such a machine and want to move to it from an Apple II+. I have a Microsoft CPM/Z80 Softcard for the Apple and need to know if it will work in the Franklin. Will I need to set any jumpers and in what slot, 2, 5 or 4/7? One slot is labled 4/7 and seems to be selected by a jumper. I don't have any documentation for the Franklin. thanks Lawrence Bartel lbartel@vax1.umkc.edu ------------------------------ Date: 13 May 92 11:00:23 GMT From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Looking for VT100 emulator in Z80 source Keywords: Z80 terminal emulator vt100 source Message-ID: <3693.volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de> Hello all! I have this old Z80 computer gathering dust that I used to run CP/M on long ago. It's a Sharp MZ80B, with 64 KB RAM and a 24x80 screen built in, two serial ports and several other extras. It occurred to me that I could use it as an extra terminal, so here's my question: Does anyone have Z80 assembler source for a VT100 emulation? I don't want to run it off floppy disks, so it must be Z80 assembler. The terminal emulator will either run in ROM, or I'll load it from cassette tape. I haven't done any Z80 work for years, and I'd rather not write the whole thing from scratch, so I'm grateful for any source that might be out there. The CP/M BIOS did emulate a terminal called ADM3A, and I have source to the complete BIOS, so I just might mangle that. But I don't really know all the escape sequences for the VT100, either. Anyone out there able to help? Please reply by email. Thanks a lot in advance -- Volker - - Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany) ------------------------------ Date: 18 May 92 14:59:23 GMT From: snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!iscsvax.uni.edu!hausmann@bloom-beacon.mit.edu Subject: Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting Message-ID: <1992May18.095923.4674@iscsvax.uni.edu> Perfect Filer is a database that runs under CP/M and I need to export a Perfect Filer database to a DOS file (eventually to Filemaker Pro on the Mac.) The problem: The database is running on a KayPro 10 micro (under CP/M) with a 10MB disk and 360K floppy. The Perfect Filer manual ((c) 1983) does not mention anything about exporting databases and Berkeley CA does not have a phone number for Perfect Software, Inc. Please help me: o Find out what happened to Perfect Software, Inc. (phone number of new business?) o Get a phone number for KayPro systems. -Tom hausmann@nova.cs.uni.edu P.S. My situation is compliated by the database being 1.6MB in total size. The MUFBAR program used to back it up splits to files across many disks when backed up. I could write a C program that would extract the data from the MUFBAR file, but I am looking for a more reliable method. ------------------------------ Date: 17 May 92 16:26:36 GMT From: pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lhuron.enet.dec.com!brown@decwrl.dec.com (Raymond J. Brown) Subject: Re: CP/M BIOS calls / DEC VT180 (ROBIN) Message-ID: <1992May17.153321.17109@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> In article <3489@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>, cowen@essex.ac.uk (Cowen C(pg seanm)) writes... > > Does anyone have a handy list of CP/M Bios calls on file > that they could e-mail me? Or perhaps the name of a > reasonable book on the subject as I would like to play > around with the assembler on my DEC ROBIN (VT180). > > Are there any good PD sites for CP/M as most of the ones > I have tried are not very good. > > Also if anyone has a list of the commands for CP/M's > debug program that would be very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Chris . > >****************************************************************** >* I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible * >* "The picture of Dorian Gray" - Oscar Wilde * >****************************************************************** A good book on the subject is "Soul of cp/m" by Mitchel Waite and Robert Lafore, Published in 1983 by Howard W. Sams & co INC. 4300 West 62nd Street, Indianapolis Indiana 46268 USA ISBN: 0-672-22030-X -------- Ray Brown rjbrown@giamem.enet.dec.com or rjbrown%giamem.enet@decwrl.dec.com or decwrl!giamem.enet!rjbrown --------- ------------------------------ Date: 29 Apr 92 10:45:52 GMT From: spool.mu.edu!mips!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!nuchat!xcluud!cls!lambada!f-454!uucp@uunet.uu.net (George Worley) Subject: Re: Epsom QX-10 == HELP! Message-ID: <704555334.F00001@f-454.fidonet.org> TO: mnd@st-andrews.ac.uk (Martin N Dunstan) -=> Quoting Martin N Dunstan to All on 27 Apr 92 23:20:07 <=- Hi Martin N Dunstan, MND> I have acquired an Epsom QX-10 with manuals but there is a Is this an EPSON QX-10???? If so I will get you the BOOT DISK for it. MND> The manuals say that this machine requires MultiFonts CP/M MND> which was an extension of CP/M 2.2 I believe. I am not sure what this means. MND> My question is this : MND> MND> (i) Does anyone have a system disc on 5.25 inch floppy - I MND> can snail mail a disc for copying onto. Like I said, I will get you the boot disk if it is an EPSON QX-10. MND> MND> (ii) Does anyone know where I can ftp the files from - I may MND> be able to create a boot disc from another machine if MND> someone would tell me the disc format in terms of sector MND> and track layout at byte level (I love a hack!) Once again I haven't heard of Epsom QX-10 but have heard of an EPSON QX-10 as I have one. I will send you a copy of the BOOT disk. MND> Replies via email please (unless you feel that the rest of MND> Usenet may benefit from the information {8-) I have no way of replying to you other then this new group as this is a a gated message between USENET and FIDONET. I hope this gets to you. Thanks, George ... Backup not found: (a)bort (r)etry (p)anic ------------------------------ Date: 18 May 92 19:40:40 GMT From: mtxinu!sybase!gng@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George George) Subject: Re: NorthStar Advantage Message-ID: <20182@sybase.sybase.com> Check in Computer Shopper. There's a company still supporting the beast. You can get parts, upgrades, an 8088 board w/ MSDOS 2.0 and a hard drive. They sell DBASE, Wordstar, etc. Look in the classified section. Polytechnic University in Brooklyn still uses them in their undergrad Hardware Torture Lab (they're cheap & expendable) & the local Northstar User's Group meets there. They might be a good source too. I have/can get software for the beast. I also have full manuals. These are some of my favorite CP/M machines. ... gng ------------------------------ Date: 18 May 92 18:05:05 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: Ph # for KayPro, Database exporting Message-ID: <1992May18.180505.9080@baron.uucp> hausmann@iscsvax.uni.edu writes: >Perfect Filer is a database that runs under CP/M and I need to export a >Perfect Filer database to a DOS file (eventually to Filemaker Pro on the Mac.) > >The problem: The database is running on a KayPro 10 micro (under CP/M) with a >10MB disk and 360K floppy. The Perfect Filer manual ((c) 1983) does not mention >anything about exporting databases and Berkeley CA does not have a phone number >for Perfect Software, Inc. > The best suggestion that I can offer is to get the package that contains PF2ASC.COM from SIMTEL20 archives. As the name suggests, it will convert a PF database into a 'comma delimited' ASCII file which should be easy to import into a foreign database program. It is available under pd:pf2asc.lbr. >o Get a phone number for KayPro systems. > Kaypro's phone number is (619) 535-2155. However, they are a skeleton outfit now, that is devoted to PC clones, and I doubt that they can be of much help. - don Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #40 ************************************ 24-May-92 14:03:31-MDT,5469;000000000000 Mail-From: W8SDZ created at 24-May-92 13:57:18 Return-Path: Date: Sun, 24 May 92 13:57:17 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #41 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920524135718.V92N41@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sun, 24 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 41 Today's Topics: Kaypro Corporation: Alive or Dead? Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... (2 msgs) Word Star Problem, Help Please... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 1 May 92 16:50:57 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!gjw1@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Watson) Subject: Kaypro Corporation: Alive or Dead? Message-ID: <1992May1.165057.22057@midway.uchicago.edu> As my Kaypro II'83's ninth birthday is coming up, I was wondering what happened to Kaypro Corporation? Are they still in business? I know a few years ago, they filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, but lost track of them after that. Thanks. Gregory Watson gjw1@midway.uchicago.edu g-watson@uchicago.edu ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 01:18:23 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!mips!cs.uoregon.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!glia!jfoy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Foy) Subject: Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: In <47278@dime.cs.umass.edu> steve@cs.umass.edu (Steve Cook) writes: >Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to >remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert >an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape >code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M >the problem becomes obvious. >I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future >problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe >all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? If you're using WordStar 4.0 under CP/M, ^QU (Quick Unformat is my favorite description for this one). [NOTE: That is control Q U] You might want to hit a ^B (control B) as I don't recall if it reformats paragraphs correctly. If, however, you are using an earlier version of WordStar, stripping the eigth bit of each byte in the file works just fine. Here's an easy method using PIP: PIP NEWFILE.NAM=OLDFILE.NAM[Z] NOTE: You'd NEVER want to do this to a binary file (like .COM) for obvious reasons! :) >It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! For SHAME! :) Jeff -- signature file is on strike. ------------------------------ Date: 2 May 92 02:37:24 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcomsv!mork!zig@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (John Curtis) Subject: Re: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: <8j=kk!p.zig@netcom.com> steve@cs.umass.edu (Steve Cook) writes: >Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to >remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert >an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape >code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M >the problem becomes obvious. >I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future >problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe >all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? >It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! There is a program called FILT (latest version 8.2) by the late Irv Hoff that will solve your problem. I would expect you will find it among the archives on the Internet, but if not I will gladly send you a copy. -- .... ... ... ......................................................... ....... ... ... ........... John Curtis ....... aka Ziig on IRC ......... ...... .... ... .. ....... Santa Clara, Ca ................................. ..... ..... ... ... ....... zig@netcom.com ......... ZCPR Lives!! .......... .... ... ... ......................................................... ------------------------------ Date: 1 May 92 22:57:31 GMT From: news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!dime!omni.cs.umass.edu!steve@gatech.edu (Steve Cook) Subject: Word Star Problem, Help Please... Message-ID: <47278@dime.cs.umass.edu> Does anyone still use word star on CP/M? If so, does anyone know how to remove the formatting char at the end of each word. I would like to convert an existing document into a straight ascii file. Word Star puts an escape code in for the last letter of every word. When you type the file via CP/M the problem becomes obvious. I do know that you can work with non-documented files to eliminate future problems, but is there a way to convert the file back to ascii? I believe all I need to do is unformat (^B reformats), but how???? It's been 8 years since I touched CP/M, can you tell?!!! Steve... ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #41 ************************************ 30-May-92 19:18:53-MDT,8223;000000000000 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 30 May 92 19:15:10 MDT From: INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Reply-To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #42 To: INFO-CPM@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Message-ID: <920530191511.V92N42@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> INFO-CPM Digest Sat, 30 May 92 Volume 92 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: "Uniform" wanted Classic Kaypro available to good home CPM to DOS data transfer OS for Tektronix 4170??? Re: "Uniform" wanted (2 msgs) Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #33 S-100 cards Tape backup info ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 25 May 92 11:42:48 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mips!munnari.oz.au!metro!grivel!ipso!dave@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dave Horsfall) Subject: "Uniform" wanted Message-ID: <1992May25.114248.11896@ips.oz.au> I'm told there is a program called "Uniform", allowing a CP/M box to emulate other soft-sectored formats. Anyone know anything about it? -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC dave@ips.OZ.AU ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave "Difference between a virus and Windows? A virus never fails" - R.Mulder ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 92 05:44:28 GMT From: well!well.sf.ca.us!scm@uunet.uu.net (Steve McClary) Subject: Classic Kaypro available to good home Message-ID: I have one of the fine old Kaypro 4-83 "portable" available to a good home. Plenty of software, both commercial and public domain. Works fine and stillmakes a good word processor and telecommunications terminal. I'll entertain offers, but mostly want to see someone use it. If you're a non-profit or similar worthy cause, you can have it for the cost of shipping. Let me know -- it's time to move and I really don't ned it anymore. Steve McClary -- ----*----*----*----*---*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----* Steve McClary Nothing special or pretentious scm@well.sf.ca.us to put here, so I won't... ----*----*----*----*---*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----* ------------------------------ Date: 29 May 92 19:20:41 GMT From: lynx.msc.cornell.edu!mike@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Heisler) Subject: CPM to DOS data transfer Message-ID: <1992May29.192041.17628@msc.cornell.edu> We have some data on two Z80 CPM machines that are being phased out in favor of 386 DOS machines. We need to get some of the data from the 160K cpm disks to DOS disks. The two CPM machines are an Osborne and a Phillips. We have Kermit for the Osborne and can transfer the data from there at 1200 baud over serial line but would rather not. The Phillips has no kermit and the Osborne kermit doesn't work on it. Any ideas? (even if they cost money) Mike Heisler 607-255-7344 mike@msc.cornell.edu Materials Science Ctr. 302 Thurston Hall Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853-1503 ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 92 03:41:21 GMT From: jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!noah@rutgers.edu (Tim Farris Kadom) Subject: OS for Tektronix 4170??? Message-ID: <1992May28.034121.27716@wam.umd.edu> I have had this tek 4170, and 4105 terminal for over a year now. I am only using the terminal to call into the net, but the 4170 seems to be running its self test all the way to the point where I should insert the OS disk. thats where I run into trouble because I dont have my OS disk. I called Tek, and they want $295 (might as well be a thousand!) for a new disk and manual. I cant afford that! so I was hoping someone out here had a suggestion... I could really use this computer (I mean its impressive to look at and all... but it would really be nice if it worked). Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance, tim (noah@wam.umd.edu) -- "No one I think is in my tree..." -John Lennon ------------------------------ Date: 26 May 92 08:11:44 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!ersys!davem@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dave McCrady) Subject: Re: "Uniform" wanted Message-ID: <0LgDLB1w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> dave@ips.oz.au (Dave Horsfall) writes: > I'm told there is a program called "Uniform", allowing a CP/M box to > emulate other soft-sectored formats. Anyone know anything about it? > > -- It was a commercial package marketed for the Kaypro, and perhaps some others. I don't know if it's still around (Jay Sage, are you out there?) There is an MSDOS version available from a company called Microsolutions in DeKalb, Illinois. I got my copy from Emerald Microware in Beaverton, Oregon when I was down there a few years ago .. I still make fairly constant use of it... Dave McCrady davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton Remote Systems: Celebrating 10 years of service to Northern Alberta ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 92 05:25:11 GMT From: baron!baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil (Don Maslin) Subject: Re: "Uniform" wanted Message-ID: <1992May27.052511.3091@baron.uucp> Dave, that is correct. In fact, there are versions for various CP/M machines and another called UniForm-PC for PC compatibles. They are products of: Micro Solutions, Inc. 132 West Lincoln Hwy. DeKalb IL 60115 (815) 756-3411 Be advised, however, that because of the variations from one CP/M machine to another, only the most popular of them had a version tailored to them. - don Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: baron!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 May 92 11:05:48 CET From: 030141@DOLUNI1.BITNET Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #33 unsubscribe all ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 92 05:39:41 GMT From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!news-is-not-mail@decwrl.dec.com (Christopher G. Petrilli) Subject: S-100 cards Message-ID: <101rmtINNf80@cs.utexas.edu> I have recently obtained the following S-100 computer equipment: Vector MZ S-100 computer Vector Graphics, Inc. Containing: ZCB CPU board 64K RAM ASSY NO 3504 Disk Controller (FD Control B Micropolis) Flashwriter II (Video card?) ------------------------------------------------- Other S-100 cards: Cambrian Systems: Z80 CPU (11705A) CS2900 Test System Data Recovery Board (12601B) 12074B (Interface card?) 11701B (Video card?) Godbout CompuPro RAM17 "Doubler" copyright 1978, DDC rev 8 The Vector machine doesn't boot (drive A seems to be inoperable), and the rest of the boards are from who knows what system. Any information on these cards and how to put them togeather into a working system would be greatly appreciated. Paul Prescott via petrilli@cs.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 May 92 21:02:23 EDT From: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu (Etop Udoh) Subject: Tape backup info Message-ID: <9205310102.AA28456@st6000.sct.edu> hi, I'm looking for general information on tape backup units in terms of books, magazine articles, or files in public domain... ................................................................. : ------------------- SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY : : | EUDOH@SCT.EDU | MARIETTA, GEORGIA : : ------------------- : : Abandon all hope ye who have entered " CYBERSPACE " : :...............................................................: ------------------------------ End of INFO-CPM Digest V92 Issue #42 ************************************