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INFO-CPM Digest             Fri,  1 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   48

Today's Topics:
           archive site for comp.os.cpm? and misc (2 msgs)
      FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
                  Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
                       Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
                       Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
                      Software Toolworks info...
                                ZCPR.
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Date: 28 Feb 91 13:03:43 GMT
From: vax5.cit.cornell.edu![e-mail]  (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: archive site for comp.os.cpm? and misc
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello all,
       I was wondering if comp.os.cpm is being archived anywhere? I've
been following the discussions on connecting 5.25 and 3.5" drives to 8"
systems and did not catch much of the earlier threads where detailed
information seemed to be given.
       Also, I have a Xerox 820-II with the 8" drives and was wondering if
anyone could provide me with the following information or pointers to where
I might locate this info:

       *floppy and hard disk subsystems: what is necessary, what can I
        use?
       *tech. documentation on the hardware, ROMs and anything else
       *pointers to firms that produce or market processor upgrades
        for the 820-II, like going to a Z280
       *anyone who has info on "homebrew" type alterations to this
        machine

       Thanks for any help.

P.S. Is there a Xerox users group anywhere in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic
states?
 --
       Andrew Orndorff
       CIT, Research & Analysis
       Cornell University
       Internet: [e-mail]
       Bitnet:   bqsy1@crnlvax5

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Date: 1 Mar 91 21:35:37 GMT
From: vax5.cit.cornell.edu![e-mail]
Subject: archive site for comp.os.cpm? and misc
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Andrew R. Orndorff) writes:
>      Also, I have a Xerox 820-II with the 8" drives and was wondering if
> anyone could provide me with the following information or pointers to where
> I might locate this info:
>
>      *floppy and hard disk subsystems: what is necessary, what can I
>       use?
>      *tech. documentation on the hardware, ROMs and anything else
>      *pointers to firms that produce or market processor upgrades
>       for the 820-II, like going to a Z280
>      *anyone who has info on "homebrew" type alterations to this
>       machine
>
>      Thanks for any help.
>
> P.S. Is there a Xerox users group anywhere in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic
> states?

You'll find all of the above rolled into one :) at Holly Park
RCP/M, 201-757-1497.  Dick Roberts, the sysop, will gladly sell
you his 8" hard drive kits, if you really want some extra heat in
your house :)  Chris McEwen also runs a BBS in the same area; I
don't recall the number, but I'm sure it's liberally plastered
all over Dick's system.

  --jh
--
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[e-mail], [e-mail], uunet!biar!jhood

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91  15:30:02 EST
From: "Craig Spirka" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I own a hardworking Altos ACS8000 MP/M (multiuser) machine, which my wife
wants me to dump because it's taking up too much (guest) room.  I want to find
a good home for it with a fellow CP/M buff -- if they'll come to Santa
Barbara, California, and haul it away.

Here are the specs:

It's an Altos ACS8000 with Zilog Z80 microprocessor running MP/M II (V2.1).
It has an ACS 8200 Circuit Board supporting up to 4 concurrent users, with
208K of random access memory: 16K system memory, and 4 banks of 48K user
memory.  It has one (1) Single/Double density 8" floppy drive and a 14"
Winchester 40MB Hard Drive.

Also part of the free package is an Altos Magnetic Tape Unit (MTU-2, CMTD-
3400S2) to backup the hard disk onto 13.4 MB, 1/4", 450-foot, 4 track, high
density magnetic tape cartridges.  The MTU records data at 6400 BPI in serial
recording, Modified Frequency Modulation format, at 192 Kbits/second.

PLUS, a Televideo 925 monitor and TONS of:  manuals, 8" floppies, tape
cartridges, software on and off the hard disk --  a text editor, spell
checker, mail merger, accounting system, ADVENTURE, etc.

All for the low, low price of $0.  Just pick it up in Santa Barbara,
California, promise to love it forever, and haul it home.     -Craig Spirka


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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 14:19:11 EST
From: "Robert J. Rodriguez" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M

Is there a version of Kermit or Mex for CP/M on the Apple that does not lose
characters at 1200 and 2400 baud? I have an enhanced Apple 2E that I'm
using with a Datalink 2400 baud modem to download some CP/M stuff from
an IBM mainframe at the college. The IBM does not support nulls, and requires
VT100 emulation for full-screen editing. The CPM Kermit that I have is very old
(maybe 5 years or more) and only supports VT52. It drops the first 3 or 4
characters of each line at 1200 or 2400 baud.

I have the Apple Prodos Kermit (3.86), and it works fine, but I'd prefer a
direct CP/M Kermit or Xmodem that can read binaries directly on to CP/M disks.

Also, has anyone tried the MS/DOS CP/M emulators on an Apple PC Transporter?

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Date: 28 Feb 91 14:17:52 GMT
From: att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso![e-mail]  (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <"13-Feb-91.10:27:35.EST".*[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] writes:

| Doug, I am interested in your copy of Wordstar 4.0.
|
|                 ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

No doubt.  Do the WordStar people know of your interest?

--
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
[e-mail]                  ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave

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Date: 27 Feb 91 00:32:46 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!dsndata!unocss![e-mail]  (mlewis)
Subject: Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Curt Mayer):
> I have been given a Kaypro portable without boot disks.
> It says on the back panel, Kaypro 2, with an X on a sticker
> after the 2. It has 2 half height 5.25 floppies.


I hate to do this, but ME TOO!  A friend got a Kaypro 2 from his church,
and all it has is WordStar on a bootable disk.  No FORMAT, no PIP, no
NOTHING!
My day phone is [phone] x 150, and evenings [phone]

Thanks for ANY responses.
Marc

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Date: 28 Feb 91 23:14:12 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Software Toolworks info...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Was just wondering, is Software Toolworks still around (or for
that matter, Walt Bilofsky, its founder)?  I just picked up a
whole pile of their stuff from a local computer store, many of
the programs I have duplicates of.  One of the packages I picked
up was C/80 3.0 and I would like to know more about it and I
would like to know if there are any versions later than this one.
I have C/80 in both 2.0 and 3.0 versions, in hard-sectored HDOS
and soft-sectored CP/M.

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Date: 28 Feb 91 14:23:20 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso![e-mail]  (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: ZCPR.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
| >    YOU NEED A K10 PLUS A HARD DISK (the more the better)
|
| Are you saying that ZCPR will ONLY work on a Kaypro with a hard disk, or is it
| capable of running on non-Kaypro, non-hard disk systems? (Such as a DEC
| Rainbow)

Works fine on my (Aus-made) Microbee, with twin floppies.  Or are we talking
about a strange version of ZCPR?

--
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
[e-mail]                  ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave

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INFO-CPM Digest             Sun,  3 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   49

Today's Topics:
   C compilers which can be linked with Assembler (SLR for example)
                      Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
                      Free altos z80:  208k ram
                  Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
                              Re: ZCPR.
                     Sharp MZ5600 : CP/M -> DOS ?
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Date: 2 Mar 91 11:35:32 GMT
From: munnari.oz.au!uhccux!uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu![e-mail]  (Ralph Becker-Szendy)
Subject: C compilers which can be linked with Assembler (SLR for example)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Dear cp/m addicts, I am looking for a C compiler. Not just ANY OLD C compiler.
I want one which generates code which can be linked into Z80 Assembler. Here
is the problem: The monitor part of my BIOS (the thing which sets up the
machine before booting cp/m) is currently written in SLR assembler, as is the
rest of the BIOS. The amazing capabilities of the SLR assembler and virtual
linker make cross-linking between BIOS and monitor quite easy. However, the
monitor is getting longer and longer, and soon (with all the bells and
whistles which will be required for SCSI disks as soon as I get the low-level
SCSI driver to work, backup to SCSI tape, managing partitions on the disk and
storing the setup of the machine in NVRAM) it will become a burden to write
all this in assembler.

So I am looking for a C compiler with the following capabilities:
- ROMable code (that doesn't mean anything exceeding the following
  requirements, the code actually runs in RAM),
- Generate fairly tight code (it all goes into EPROM, and 32kB EPROM isn't
  that much if a whole C run time library wants to get into that),
- Define subroutines and data structures at arbitrary addresses (so it can call
  assembler routines and access BIOS data structures),
- Call assembler subroutines with control over nearly all registers (so it
  can pass and receive parameters from BIOS-internal routines),
- C routines have to be callable from assembler, and there will be no MAIN
  program,
- Code can be generated at any address, and the position of stack and heap can
  be moved,
- The IO library can be replaced or modified (source code would be best), since
  no BDOS is present when the program runs all IO has to be through BIOS
  calls or assembler routines internal to the BIOS,
- The compiler has to generate Microsoft or SLR type .REL files, because the
  linking has to be done by the SLR linker,
- or even better, it may to generate assembler source which can be assembled
  by the SLR asssembler.

Quite certainly my otherwise very nice MIX-C compiler will not do that. I know
of a few other C compilers (there is a PD small-C compiler on SIMTEL, and one
in VOL224 or the SIG collection), I hear that some compilers are still being
sold (for example by Jay Sage, or Aztek-C, and MI-C is still available for
lotsof money in Germany, not identical to the low-cost MIX-C), and others may
be defunct (C/80 and Quick-C come to mind). Are any available (frree, new for
sale, or "used" someone wants to unload) which can fill these requirements ?

By the way, I am in no way restricted to C. I would actually prefer other
languages like Pascal or Modula-2, but with those fancy languages the chances
of finding a compiler whose output can be linked into assembler are even
slimmer than with C.

For the long-term future (as soon as I finish my dissertation I might have some
spare time), are there any compilers which generate real Z280 code ? Or, for
that matter, even assemblers (I am not counting macro libraries which define
funny opcodes for the new Z280 instructions) ? That topic pops up every so
often. I hear of a few expensive cross-developments systems, but that's no fun.

--
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University of Hawaii                              [e-mail]
High Energy Physics Group                                  [e-mail]
Watanabe Hall #203, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822         [phone]

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Date: 3 Mar 91 05:54:22 GMT
From: ogicse!milton![e-mail]  (Bob Perigo)
Subject: Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Would like to breath some new life into a pair of old necAPCs.  That's those
combination cpm86/msdos beasts with the 8" disks.  Have you seen a PD release
of a c86 or fortran86 configured for it?

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Date: 2 Mar 91 17:43:00 GMT
From: rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (David Barnes)
Subject: Free altos z80:  208k ram
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Craig;
        Hi.. I will take your Altos system if you will box it up for me,
I will pay the shipping and some $$$ for your time and effort.. Matter
of fact if you call me I will give you some $$$ for the system, please
call me ASAP at [phone].. You can call collect if you like... I
am located in Rochester NY... thanks very much...

                                David Barnes


--
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UUCP: {smart-host}!ur-valhalla!rochgte!242!David.Barnes
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: 2 Mar 91 17:28:51 GMT
From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!chalmers.se!fy.chalmers.se!fy.chalmers.se![e-mail]  (Jonas Hvarfner)
Subject: Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have an Osborne 1 with diskdrive problems.

If I format a disk with 22DISKs cfmt in an IBM PC, the B-drive on the
Osborne refuses to read it. I get "bad sector"-errors each time I try
a DIR B: or a TYPE B:TEXT.FIL (the file is written by 22DISK). If I
use COPY to copy the entire disk to another in the A-drive, it reads
up to about track 30-35 and then says "read error".

However, the Osborne does not complain whatever I do with this cfmt-
formatted disk as long as I do it in the A-drive. I can read and write
without any problems at all. The A-drive also reads and writes disks
formatted and written on in the B-drive. The B-drive sometimes, but not
always, complain about A-formatted and -written disks.

I have tested this on the Osborne at several times with new disks and
using different IBMs, always with the same disappointing result.

It's very annoying not to be able to trust the B-drive. Therefore
I would be very happy if someone could comment on the causes of this disk-
drive behavior. What can I do about it? If it is misalignment, can I align
the drives myself? If so, how? (I have access to an electronics lab with
oscilloscopes, frequency-counters etc.)

                                      Thank you!

                                      Jonas Hvarfner
                                      [e-mail]

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Date: 1 Mar 91 21:44:28 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cc.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Re: ZCPR.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
| Are you saying that ZCPR will ONLY work on a Kaypro with a hard disk, or is it
| capable of running on non-Kaypro, non-hard disk systems? (Such as a DEC
| Rainbow)

While running ZCPR on a Rainbow is quite nice, it's probably not that good
an idea. The Rainbow is primarily a CP/M-86 machine with a Z80 sidecar; ZCPR
only knows how to run Z80 programs, so you have to be willing to limit
yourself to those if you want to run it on your Rainbow. I gave up on that
because the I/O byte didn't seem to work correctly; I couldn't get, e.g.,
generic CP/M Kermit running on the Z80.

However, it does make a fairly nice setup; the Rainbow has a huge TPA
because the operating system runs on the 8086 and therefore doesn't show
up in the Z80's memory space.

Caveat: I was running ZCPR 1.something or other that I had severely hacked
over. I don't know about running ZCPR 3 on the Rainbow.
--
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Roger Ivie

35 S 300 W
Logan, Ut.  84321
[phone]
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Date: 1 Mar 91 20:54:18 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!dsiramd!marcamd!mercury!kcbbs![e-mail]  (Richard Plinston)
Subject: Sharp MZ5600 : CP/M -> DOS ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.205418.12384@kcbbs>

I have one of these with both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS 2.11.

I need a postal address.

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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon,  4 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   50

Today's Topics:
                    Altos ACS 8000-2 needs a home
                       FREE Compupro 8085/8086
                          NZCOM replacenet?
                       PacPerson needs home...
                Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
                     Re: Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
                Re: Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
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Date: 4 Mar 91 23:08:47 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!dougfir.Berkeley.EDU![e-mail]  (Michael Van De Vanter)
Subject: Altos ACS 8000-2 needs a home
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

My old reliable computer needs a new home.

It is an Altos model ACS 8000-2.  This is an industrial strength (big,
sturdy, and heavy) CP/M machine with:

    - 64k memory
    - 2 Shugart 8" dual-density floppy drives
    - 2 serial ports (one connects to a terminal as console)
    - 1 parallel port (centronics printer)
    - single board (no backplane)
    - CP/M 2.2

Comes with original manuals, schematics, and other detailed
technical documentation, as well as original packing material.

It also comes with OPRA 7.4. This is a version of CP/M 2.2 enhanced
specifically for this machine (but compatible with all CP/M software).
Enhancements include increased disk capacity, disk i/o speed,
interrupt driven type-ahead buffer, and others.

I also have other tools and programming languages with documentation.

Make an offer, any offer, and come take it away.  Alternately, suggest
a group or organization to whom it would be more benefit than trouble,
and I will consider donating it.

    Michael L. Van De Vanter
    [e-mail]
    [phone] (evenings)

    Michael

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Date: 4 Mar 91 17:28:20 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvia![e-mail]  (gordon_staley)
Subject: FREE Compupro 8085/8086
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I a have FREE CP/M machine available.  All I ask is that the recipient pick
it up at my home in Corvallis, Oregon.

HARDWARE:
The system has 64K of memory and a 8085/8086 dual-processor.  There are two
8" floppy drives (1.2M) and a terminal (Televideo 925).  There are serial
ports for the terminal and a modem.  There is a parallel port that is ready
to have a centronics printer hooked up to it.  While the machine was still
in use it shared a printer with a PC clone using an A-B switch.

SOFTWARE:
I have CP/M 2.2, Wordstar, Super-Calc, Dbase 2, CBASIC, CP/M-86 and a number
of other packages for it.  I  believe that I have all of the system manuals
and most of the software manuals.

The system works fine.  It was taken out of service because my wife could no
longer get companies to print checks for the accounting software she was
using.  I hate to see this perfectly good system be sent to a landfill.  I
will take requests for the next 2 weeks.  Preference will be given to charit-
able organizations.  Please respond by e-mail.

Gordon Staley
gordon@hpcvia

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Date: 3 Mar 91 23:20:59 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com![e-mail]  (William Thomas Daugustine)
Subject: NZCOM replacenet?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

A coupla years ago, or whenever, I purchased NZCOM on Epson QX-10
format. After I copyed the disks, I put the originals away, and
didnt use them. Now, much time has passed, and when I tried to read
them, they seemed to have gone bad. Unfortunatly, I never mail in
those registration/guarentee/warrenty cards (if there even was one).
Is there any way I can get a (free) replacement?

Also, is the license of this software only valid for one machine? I
no longer own the QX-10, now instead I own a TeleTek System Master
with 8" DSDD drives...

Thanx

Billy D'Augustine
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 19:11 EDT
From: He did! He did get married bare-footed! <[e-mail]>
Subject: PacPerson needs home...

Hall-owww...!

As  some of you may have noticed, I began sending out a copy of
PacPerson to those who requested. The mistery is over; it is just
a cheap rip-off of Pacman and Ms. Pacman, with a CP/M touch.
Keep those requests coming, and they will be right on their way.

(One problem: the uuencoded file had as destination "M:PACPER.ARK."
I suspect this would cause a problem with some versions of UUDECODE
on a system without a M: drive. I haven't tried. If it does, simply
edit the darn file and get rid of the "M:"  The file is only 33K
long so most editors can handle it. Sometimes, learning to use
ED isn't that bad a deal...)

Now the sad part. I was just told be Keith Petersen (editor of this
newsgroup) that Simtel will not be accepting any more games and
will be deleting the ones that they already have (like Tetris).
So, I need a well-accessible file-serving place where these two
(PacPerson and Tetris) can be uploaded and to which I can redirect
far-future requests for those, and to which I can send more games
as I write them...  Some of you have already placed Tetris on the
BBS's, but I would like a "home base" for these games...

Any candidates?

  Thanks in advance, and enjoy!

       -John

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Date: 3 Mar 91 23:38:55 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] ("Robert J. Rodriguez") writes:

> Is there a version of Kermit or Mex for CP/M on the Apple that does not lose
> characters at 1200 and 2400 baud? I have an enhanced Apple 2E that I'm
> using with a Datalink 2400 baud modem to download some CP/M stuff from
> an IBM mainframe at the college. The IBM does not support nulls, and requires
> VT100 emulation for full-screen editing. The CPM Kermit that I have is very o
> (maybe 5 years or more) and only supports VT52. It drops the first 3 or 4
> characters of each line at 1200 or 2400 baud.
>
> I have the Apple Prodos Kermit (3.86), and it works fine, but I'd prefer a
> direct CP/M Kermit or Xmodem that can read binaries directly on to CP/M disks
>
> Also, has anyone tried the MS/DOS CP/M emulators on an Apple PC Transporter?


Sorry, but you're SOL on that one if you have a
Microsoft/Applied Engineering Z80 card or any of its compatibles.
I tried to no avail to write interrupt routines, but I STILL lost
characters.  And this is at 2400+ on an Apple II Plus with a
Videx Videoterm!  The Apple CP/M system is a great system, but
this CANNOT be helped.  Please someone proveme wrong here because
I want the same thing.

As far as the PCT is concerned, it would STILL be too slow
because the PCT uses a 10 MHz V20 which makes the Apple a turbo
XT.  You could run Z80MU, but your effective speed would be
around 500kHz to 1MHz, so you'd be better off using a 386SX.  And
anything that takes advantage of the V20's hardware emulation
will let you use 8080/8085 stuff ONLY, which I think is too
limited, and what's worse is that I've heard is that the hardware
emulation is buggy.

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Date: Mon,  4 Mar 91 15:31:54 -0500
From: Jay Sage <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Marc Lewis asked for the missing files for his Kaypro 2.  I tried to reply
to him directly, but his address was longer than my mailer would accept (!),
so I am replying here.

   I have some kind of Kaypro IV or 2 and certainly have access to all kinds
of Kaypro computers.  If you send me blank, formatted, labeled diskettes with
a return mailer (self-addressed) with postage, I can copy the files onto the
diskettes and send them back.  Be sure to include a note reminding me of what
I promised to send you, as I do so much of this that I often forget the
details by the time disks arrive."

-- Jay Sage
   1435 Centre Street
   Newton Centre, MA 02159-2469

P.S. Oops, just remembered that one of the programs you are missing is the
FORMAT program.  In that case, just send blank disks, and remind me of that
so I don't try to write to them without formatting them first.


------------------------------

Date: 3 Mar 91 05:04:06 GMT
From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!urchin!f601.n106.z1.fidonet.org![e-mail]  (CHARLES COTHAM)
Subject: Re: Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Jonas,

   I don't know if it would help, but I have a couple of articles on disk
drive alignment for the Osborne 1. I would be glad to make a copy and
send to you if you will leave me an address.

                          Charles Cotham
                          2205 Lilac St.
                          Nederland, Texas
                                      77627

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INFO-CPM Digest             Wed,  6 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   51

Today's Topics:
                           Code Works - Q/C
                       CPM Emulator for an AT?
                    Intersystems DPS-1's for sale
           Re: Accelerated 6502s and Apple CP/M (Applicard)
                    Re: Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
                Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
                     Re: Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
                  ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 5 Mar 91 17:52:30 GMT
From: magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!darth![e-mail]  (Davey Jones)
Subject: Code Works - Q/C
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Does anyone have information on The Code Works.  They produced the Q/C
compiler for Z80 based CP/M systems.  Are they still in business?  Is it
still possible to get the Q/C compiler?

Thanks

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Date: 5 Mar 91 03:11:34 GMT
From: ucivax!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hplsla![e-mail]  (Marshall Lollis)
Subject: CPM Emulator for an AT?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

You may find this an incredibly foolish question, but is there a CPM
emulator I can run on my AT? The reason I ask is because of a family
expense program that we have had from when we were running a z-card in
our Apple.........many years ago. I guess I would assume that any
emulator available would be in the form of software.

Please don't make too much fun of me. I had to ask!

*Marshall*


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Date: 6 Mar 91 00:51:47 GMT
From: ns-mx!shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu![e-mail]  (James Roger Black)
Subject: Intersystems DPS-1's for sale
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have two Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1 computers for sale.  These are
high-quality S-100 CP/M systems with 20-slot motherboard, 25-amp
power supply, traditional front panel (lots of lights and switches)
and a chassis strong enough to jump up and down on.

Each one has a Z-80 CPU, 64K RAM, dual SSDD 8-inch floppies with
controllers, and all that good stuff.  There are also two serial cards,
a modem card, a 2708/2716 EPROM programmer, an S-100 extender card with
logic probe, a sound-effects board, etc.

Software:  CP/M; Microsoft M80 Macro Assembler; WordStar; Vedit; DRI Tex
word processor; ZDM debugger; D80 disassembler; Forth; DRI PL/I; Ithaca
Pascal/Z; Microsoft Basic; lots of other stuff.

All software is licensed, original disks and manuals, etc.  All hardware
includes schematics and manuals.  There are some books and magazines, too.

Both units were working when decommissioned.  One needs a serial card, but
the other has an extra, so it balances out.  Between the two of them, you
should have a complete computer and spare parts till doomsday.

No reasonable offer refused; you pay shipping.  Send email if interested.

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 Weeg Computing Center                                  The University of Iowa

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Date: 5 Mar 91 04:22:14 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!uop!quack![e-mail]  (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Accelerated 6502s and Apple CP/M (Applicard)
Message-ID: <kNRjIh/@quack.sac.ca.us>

[e-mail] (David Douthitt) writes:

>As an aside, can someone tell me if there are any other hard drives
>you can use with a PCPI card besides the Sider?  Ones that work with
>Prodos?

I wrote a pair of drivers that allowed you to use ProDOS devices under
PCPI. One was for floppies and handled drives up to 2 MB, the other
was for hard disks and allowed up to 8 MB, but it had to be
non-removable (or you would have to make VERY sure to warm-boot
if you swapped. Bye bye data otherwise).

The trouble is that the vectors had to be sized in advance, so each
potential drive took up a k or so of your TPA.

All of the above is from memory. I could dig them up, but I'd rather
not have to. They're widespread, I would hope. :-/

>What about SCSI?

They are ProDOS devices, no?

--
Nick Sayer              | Think of me as a recombinant    | RIP: Mel Blanc
[e-mail] | Simpson: Homer's looks, Lisa's  |   1908-1989
N6QQQ  [44.2.1.17]      | brains, Bart's manners, and     |  May he never
209-952-5347 (Telebit)  | Maggie's appetite for TV.  --Me |  be silenced.

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Date: 5 Mar 91 21:03:35 GMT
From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iboga![e-mail]  (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Bob Perigo) writes:

>Would like to breath some new life into a pair of old necAPCs.  That's those
>combination cpm86/msdos beasts with the 8" disks.  Have you seen a PD release
>of a c86 or fortran86 configured for it?
*----
I think C86 is a commercial compiler, so you won't find a "free" version.  However
DeSmet C is now shareware or free, and it's excellent.

Since the APC runs MS-DOS 2.11, virtually ANY generic compiler will work.  I
still use the latest version of Microsoft C to generate code for the NEC APC.

--
    Mike Berger
    Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
    AT&TNET     217-244-6067
    Internet    [e-mail]

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Date: 5 Mar 91 14:56:49 GMT
From: milton!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!qiclab!techbook![e-mail]  (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
>>
>> Also, has anyone tried the MS/DOS CP/M emulators on an Apple PC Transporter?
>
>As far as the PCT is concerned, it would STILL be too slow
>because the PCT uses a 10 MHz V20 which makes the Apple a turbo
>XT.  You could run Z80MU, but your effective speed would be
>around 500kHz to 1MHz, so you'd be better off using a 386SX.  And
>anything that takes advantage of the V20's hardware emulation
>will let you use 8080/8085 stuff ONLY, which I think is too
>limited, and what's worse is that I've heard is that the hardware
>emulation is buggy.

  z80mu on a 20mhz 286 gives you about a 2.5 mhz z80, which is not badd
all things considered.

  you would be surprised at how much cp/m stuff is written for the 8080/8085
instruction set.  some z80 machines had problems with the extra z80 registers
because the bios would assume the machine was going to be used like
an 8080.

  running z80mu on a machine like a 386sx is rather pointless, especially
if you end up purchasing the machine solely to run cp/m stuff.  even though
i have z80mu, i rarely use it because it is not enough like a cp/m environment
just when you find that you need it to be.   not to mention i have a lot of
cp/m machine specific programs.

  if you want a solution to your problem, your best bet would be to spend
$50 to $100 or so and buy a used cp/m machine.  then you can get one with
a real serial port, that won't drop chars even at 9600 baud.

  'bag' solutions like a cp/m card in an apple are really not great solutions
because you are still stuck with a 'funny' disk format and strange machine
anomolies.  (like slow serial ports, wierd video mapping, etc. etc.)


--
[e-mail] - but don't quote me on that....

American Oil Company motto - Bend over, We'll pump!!!

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1991 07:06:23 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
Message-ID: <" 6-Mar-91 10:06:23 EST".*[e-mail]>

> | Doug, I am interested in your copy of Wordstar 4.0.
> |
> |                 ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

> No doubt.  Do the WordStar people know of your interest?

As long as it is a legal copy (and it sounded that way), what do they care?

                ~ Mike

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Date: 5 Mar 91 21:04:01 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!nowster![e-mail]  (Paul Martin)
Subject: ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Has anyone out there got a working ZMP 1.5 overlay for use with a
Televideo 803? (I have overlays for other Televideos, but the 803
hardware is different.)

If you do, could you mail me that you have it, and not send it
until requested?

I hear rumours that Ron Murray's being given encouragement to
speed up sections of ZMP's C code, and may be producing a new
version some time soon. Is there any basis to this?

--
Paul Martin     ..!uunet!tharr!pm.nowster | CP/M systems never die. They
[e-mail]  ([e-mail]) | just get more BIOSed with age.

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Date: Thu,  7 Mar 91 16:15:05 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #52
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INFO-CPM Digest             Thu,  7 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   52

Today's Topics:
                         Re: Code Works - Q/C
                     Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
    Re: FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
                     Re: Kaypro 4 and hard disks
                Re: ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
                   Wanted: Shugart SA860 drive info
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 6 Mar 91 09:15:54 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Code Works - Q/C
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Davey Jones) writes:

>
> Does anyone have information on The Code Works.  They produced the Q/C
> compiler for Z80 based CP/M systems.  Are they still in business?  Is it
> still possible to get the Q/C compiler?
>
> Thanks

Perhaps Doug Braun could elucidate on the subject because his UZI
package is written using Code Works' Q/C compiler.  Is it even
compilable under Aztec C, the Toolworks C/80 compiler, BDS-C, or
Mix C?  I would very much like to know.  Because if it's Q/C
specific and you cannot legally get the Code Works' compiler, I
will be extremely disappointed.

------------------------------

Date: 7 Mar 91 08:53:06 GMT
From: pacbell.com!pacbell!pbhyf![e-mail]  (Brian Holliday)
Subject: Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Marshall Lollis)
writes:
>You may find this an incredibly foolish question, but is there a CPM
>emulator I can run on my AT? The reason I ask is because of a family
>expense program that we have had from when we were running a z-card in
>our Apple.........many years ago. I guess I would assume that any
>emulator available would be in the form of software.

Yes, there are a few CP/M emulators in software.  I've used Joan Riff's
Z80MU (which emulates a Z80), and also one that came from Japan (which
emulates an 8080).  These were interesting, but not too useful to me.  The
emulator from Japan can be ordered through the C Users Journal magazine, for
$8.  It is floppy #284 -- "portable 8080 emulator" -- and it comes with C
source code.  I only got it partially working before I gave up.  Expect to
do some debugging if you get this.  Joan Riff's Z80MU works better, and is
public domain, but it is slow -- as all CP/M emulators in software will be.
Z80MU should be available in many MSDOS software collections.  (I heard that
a later version of Z80MU is being sold as a real, supported product.  If you
want the freebie, look for the "original" Z80MU.)

If you're serious about running CP/M under MSDOS, consider purchasing the
UniDOS Z80 coprocessor board.  But you may also have problems getting your PC
to read your old Apple floppies.  In the UniDOS documentation, it says:

   If your CP/M computer happens to be an Apple computer with a CP/M card,
   you should purchase MatchPoint-PC.  MatchPoint-PC will allow your PC
   compatible computer to read Apple II diskettes directly.  The standard
   disk controller in your PC is not capable of reading or writing Apple
   diskettes.

My old CP/M computer is a Kaypro, so I can't vouch for MatchPoint-PC.
I can vouch for the UniDOS Z80 coprocessor board.  I bought it for $170 in
August 1990, and it does everything I wanted it to do.  It is also quite
fast -- it runs at 8 Mhz with no wait states.

MatchPoint-PC and the UniDOS board are made by:

   Micro Solutions, Inc.
   132 West Lincoln Highway
   DeKalb, Illinois 60115
   [phone]

And I purchased UniDOS from:

   Emerald Microware
   12470 S.W. First St.
   P.O. Box 1726
   Beaverton, Oregon 97075
   (sorry, don't know the phone #)

Brian Holliday (...!pacbell!pbhyf!blholli)

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Date: 5 Mar 91 22:44:41 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!urchin![e-mail]  (Darrell Pittman)
Subject: Re: FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  I can't come to Santa Barbara to pick it up (I'm in Texas), but I
can give it a good home if you can box it up and I'll pay the shipping.
  Let me know via e-mail at "[e-mail]".
  Regards... Darrell Pittman

------------------------------

Date: 7 Mar 91 19:25:04 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 4 and hard disks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (William L. Hadley) writes:
>
>Hello all!  I have some questions about the Kaypro 4 and hard disks.
>
>1) Is it possible to connect a hard disk to a Kaypro 4?
Yes, but...

>If yes...
>2) Does it require a special type of hard disk, or will a standard IBM
>drive work?

An ST-506 type interface is required.

>3) Does it require a special disk controller cable?

Yes, and an interface card and controller, also.  What you will need in
the hardware and software line can be obtained from:
              Emerald Microware
              P.O. Box 1726
              Beaverton OR 97075
              503/641-8088    (talk to Brian)
They sell a kit that includes the interface card, controller, and
software (you provide the drive) for $245 approximately.  The drive can
be up to 40 mb.

To make the drive cold bootable, you will need to purchase and install a
new ROM.  Emerald sells the KayPLUS ROM for $69.95, or you can get the
well known Advent TurboROM for about $35 from Chuck Stafford,
916/483-0312.  The ROMs offer some other advantages also.

You WILL want to install a fan in the box!

>4) Do I need special software to format it?  If yes, then where can I get the
>software (I haven't looked too closely at the CPM archives on Simtel yet)?

Yes.  Obtainable from the same source that you got some of the other
things that you are going to need to buy.  See above.

>5) Is there a limitation to the size of the hard disk?

That depends upon just how much money you want to spend.

>6) Can the harddisk be bootable?

See above.

>7) Will I have to give up one of the floppy drives?
>
Not necessarily, if you install a half high drive.  Definitely, with a
full height.


Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: 7 Mar 91 01:42:08 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vax7![e-mail]  (Ron Murray)
Subject: Re: ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Paul Martin) writes:
>
> I hear rumours that Ron Murray's being given encouragement to
> speed up sections of ZMP's C code, and may be producing a new
> version some time soon. Is there any basis to this?
>

   Don't know about speeding it up: I have considered recoding the terminal
loop in assembler, but nothing definite yet. I am considering a VT-10*
emulation (and the fast loop would probably be necessary for this. Perhaps
Kermit as well, although I suspect most sites will have SZ/RZ by now.
   I'll probably get around to all this in a month or so, as soon as the
weather gets cooler (so I can get into the computer room again), and once
I fix my CP/M computer (which has a !@#$%^^&*&*&^ intermittent fault).

....Ron

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Date: 6 Mar 91 17:50:27 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!mips!twg.com![e-mail]  (Frank McConnell)
Subject: Wanted: Shugart SA860 drive info
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I picked up a few SA860 drives as spares a while back; these are
half-height 8" drives, and as such don't have the nice hefty 110 VAC
motors found in canonical full-height drives.  Instead, these drives
look much like what PC 5.25" half-heights aspire to be when they
grow up, with a bigger version of the "flat" spindle motor and a
quarter-turn handle to "close" the drive.

I now would like to use these to replace a pair of SA850 full-height
drives.  The problem is, these drives have a single power connector
that is different from either of the two on the 850s, and of course
I have no service or installation manual for the 860s :-(.

Does anyone out there have info on what the power connector expects?
Or, perhaps, pointers on where I could get the documentation for the
drives?  (Or even tales of terror about the troubles I'm asking for!)

Feel free to mail me; I'll summarize mailed responses.

Thanks in advance!

-Frank McConnell "I want my MPE"  E-mail: <[e-mail]> Tel: [phone]

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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 14:58:50 -0500
From: [e-mail] (William L. Hadley)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello all!  I have some questions about the Kaypro 4 and hard disks.

1) Is it possible to connect a hard disk to a Kaypro 4?
If yes...
2) Does it require a special type of hard disk, or will a standard IBM
drive work?
3) Does it require a special disk controller cable?
4) Do I need special software to format it?  If yes, then where can I get the
software (I haven't looked too closely at the CPM archives on Simtel yet)?
5) Is there a limitation to the size of the hard disk?
6) Can the harddisk be bootable?
7) Will I have to give up one of the floppy drives?

Thanks in advance!
Bill Hadley
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat,  9 Mar 91 23:22:08 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #53
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INFO-CPM Digest             Sat,  9 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   53

Today's Topics:
                         RE:  CODE WORKS Q/C
                           ROM Chip Carrier
                             Turbo Pascal
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Thu, 07 Mar 91  20:48:13 EST
From: "Craig Spirka" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:  CODE WORKS Q/C
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I know the owner-founder-president of the Code Works -- if this is the same
Code Works you have in mind.  His name is Ron Jeffries, and he is a former
colleague of mine.  Now, you may reach him through Com Design in Santa
Barbara: [phone].


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Date: 9 Mar 91 06:14:29 GMT
From: van-bc!cynic![e-mail]  (Phillip Evans)
Subject: ROM Chip Carrier
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello CPM world.  I want some ROM chip carriers.  These gizmos (a pair of
'em) came in the PX-* I got at an auction.  A 28-pin ROM or EPROM chip
fits in it, and the bottoms of the pins get bent under and the chip is
fixed.  The carrier has a kind of tiny handle on each end and what you do
is grab it by those and put it in an extra-big socket.  The whole
arrangement lets you change program ROM chips without fuss or static
damage.

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET MORE CARRIERS?

If so thanks muchly...

Signature: __________________X________________ <-- my mark

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Date: 8 Mar 91 21:31:30 GMT
From: aurs01![e-mail]  (J. Luce)
Subject: Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Where can anyone get a copy of Turbo Pascal for CP/M? My S-100 system
uses 8" disks on top of that :)

I suppose I could read it off a Kaypro 5.25 using 22DISK and upload it
to my machine, but a real diskette would be nicer.


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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 01:25:32 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon, 11 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   54

Today's Topics:
                   About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT
                         Shugart 801 (2 msgs)
                        Small Comm Program(s)
                           VT100 emulation
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 91 12:09:20 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT

Hello|

   I've juste bought MEDIA-MASTER v5.01 which now include a CP/M-Z80
software emulator... for PC XT or AT...
   It emulator either Z80, 8080 (software), and for which who have a
NEC V20 instead of a intel processor: 8080 (hardware)... because this chip
has a 8080 compatibility mode. (Does someone know how to enter in this mode?)
I've not fully tested yet but it speed... For example i've done in Z80 a loop
which take exactly 10 seconds on a Z80 at 4Mhz with no INT nor NMI...
On a PC XT (8088 at 4,77Mhz) with Z80MU It was taken: 147secondes, now with
ZPEM (MM v5.01) it takes only: 58secondes (for information on a commodore 128
in CP/M mode it takes 60secondes|||) I've also done the test on a 386sx-20
with ZPEM: only 7 secondes (so it's faster than a Z80 a 4Mhz|||)
   This emulator permit to acces I/O port... To acces RS232C for example (|)
And they have add a new Bdos fonction which permit to call any PC's bios fnct
   But it simply emulator a CPM22 (or perhaps a ZCPR because of the LIST cmd?)
           But it exist... Try it |       Bye| Alex.   <MONTARON@FRP8V11>

------------------------------

Date: 10 Mar 91 18:05:53 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: Shugart 801
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I got a Sol-20 Terminal Computer a few months ago
    but only started playing with it this weekend. It's a 8080
    based machine with a S100 buss. It came with 3 boards:
    32K SRAM, 16KSRAM, and a DiskJockey 2D/B disk controller.
    It also came with a box of 8" disks.

    Anyways, I hooked it all up and after a few hours of the
    good'old guessing at DIP switches I got the darn thing
    to boot CP/M 2.2! [wheeee ;-)]

    That's all fine but there is a catch. This system came with
    2 8" drives. Drive A (bootable) works fine but the analog
    controller on drive B does not. That means that I can format
    a disk (I have) and I can SYSGEN it (have too) but I can NOT
    copy anything without drive B :-(

    SO!

    Anyone have a 801 (SSDD 8") drive lying around? I saw many
    at the "swapfest" but, at the time, I did not have this
    computer. My offer:

    $5 + shipping if you have just the board (under the drive)
    $25 + shipping for the whole drive (drive+board+case+ps)

    Next swapfest is in April so if noone gives any decent offers,
    I can wait :-(

    Please send e-mail with offer.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
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Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

------------------------------

Date: 11 Mar 91 02:04:26 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: Shugart 801
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I got a Sol-20 Terminal Computer a few months ago
    but only started playing with it this weekend. It's a 8080
    based machine with a S100 buss. It came with 3 boards:
    32K SRAM, 16KSRAM, and a DiskJockey 2D/B disk controller.
    It also came with a box of 8" disks.

    Anyways, I hooked it all up and after a few hours of the
    good'old guessing at DIP switches I got the darn thing
    to boot CP/M 2.2! [wheeee ;-)]

    That's all fine but there is a catch. This system came with
    2 8" drives. Drive A (bootable) works fine but the analog
    controller on drive B does not. That means that I can format
    a disk (I have) and I can SYSGEN it (have too) but I can NOT
    copy anything without drive B :-(

    SO!

    Anyone have a 801 (SSDD 8") drive lying around? I saw many
    at the "swapfest" but, at the time, I did not have this
    computer. My offer:

    $5 + shipping if you have just the board (under the drive)
    $25 + shipping for the whole drive (drive+board+case+ps)

    Next swapfest is in April so if noone gives any decent offers,
    I can wait :-(

    Please send e-mail with offer.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

------------------------------

Date: 10 Mar 91 20:04:33 GMT
From: van-bc!cynic![e-mail]  (Phillip Evans)
Subject: Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello everyone _ I want to know the smalles comm programs for CP/M.  All
I need are terminal capabilities, ASCII capture, and Xmodem.  The best
one will be shoehorned into 63K of EPROM which is why size is a premium.

------------------------------

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 91 20:59:24 IST
From: "Jacques J. Goldberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: VT100 emulation

Since this issue comes out periodically:

1-QTERM  by David Goodeneough works great, in <CPM.QTERM>QTERM42G.LBR
2-What it does not have is a built-in keyboard simulation, but everything
  has been provided to implement it very easily.
3-I have made a patch for keyboard emulation with a plain (no PF keys)
  keyboard.
4-Who knows David's new e-mail address so I can send him that patch, in
  case there is any general interest in it?

------------------------------

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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon, 11 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   55

Today's Topics:
               Apple 3.5" floppy driver for Applicard?
                  DTC900 hard drive controller help
                     Match-Point Disk Controller
                    Obvious Solution the Motor On
                         Re: VT100 emulation
                             Shugart 801
                             Wordstar 4.0
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 08:40:57 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Simplicitas gratia simplicitatis)
Subject: Apple 3.5" floppy driver for Applicard?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Been away from CP/M for about a year after I sold my Apple //e.

I just put my Applicard into an Apple IIGS, and now that I have 3.5"
floppies I'd like to use them.  I don't have any uncompression or
unsqueezing utilities, and I've now got only a single 5.25" drive.  Can
anyone provide a copy of a 3.5" Applicard driver on a 5.25" floppy?

Thanks.

Dick Binder                          (Simplicitas gratia simplicitatis)
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Date: 11 Mar 91 21:30:00 EDT
From: "OAK::SNIPEHUNT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DTC900 hard drive controller help

Greetings!  I have a monstrous old hard disk system (8", 40mb fixed and
10mb removable) hooked to my LB+ via a DTC900 nearly-SCSI controller.
The fool thing didn't survive the last move, and now I'm trying to get
it working again.  It's a nightmare of first-generation TTL gates.

If anyone out in netland has full schematics for this monster, or better
yet, a spare that they'd be willing to part with cheap (summer tuition is
coming up :-) ), I'd love to hear from you.  DTC doesn't even want to
admit they ever made the thing in the first place, and the documentation
I have doesn't cover circuits or operation at all.  Can someone bail me
out?

(Just between thee and me, I'd *much* rather ditch it and get a nice,
quiet 3-1/2er in the 40mb range, but the wife'd pitch a fit if I did :-) )

Bruce H. McIntosh
[e-mail]   Go Gators!
[e-mail]


------------------------------

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 12:11:53 -0500
From: Jay Sage <[e-mail]>
Subject: Match-Point Disk Controller
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

   I have been using the Match-Point disk controller and software from
MicroSolutions for several years, and it has worked flawlessly.  I regularly
read, write, and format Apple CP/M true soft-sector and NorthStar hard-sector
diskettes.  For some reason, this package does not support the Heath hard-
sectored format.  I don't know why.


------------------------------

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 09:39:24 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Obvious Solution the Motor On
Message-ID: <"11-Mar-91 12:39:24 EST".*[e-mail]>

Forget the AND gate to generate Motor On, forget connecting Motor On to Ground,
just forget all that sort of stuff.  The solution was so obvious that I am
surprised that I and others didn't think of it first.

I would have written this sooner, but due to the massive ice storm we had a
week ago, I only made it into work two days last week, and those were very busy
days.

Back Track:

This has to do with replacing 8 inch drives with 5.25 or 3.5 inch high density
drives.  The problem was that an 8" interface does not supply the Motor On
signal, and that many of the new high density drives do not provide a jumper to
tie the Drive select signal to Motor On.

I had suggested using an AND gate to provide the signal.  Zoltan Fekete had
suggested that the signal just be grounded.  Grounding the signal is not good,
since as long as a floppy has been inserted, the heads will be loaded and the
drive will spin.  As I prepared to make a new interface board (this one with
room to add an AND gate chip), I realized that even with this addition, both
drives will spin if each has a floppy, and either one is selected.

Then the solution this me.  Use an IBM type twisted cable!!!  This way, the
Drive Select signal could be tied directly to that drives Motor On, and nothing
else was needed (and you can buy them for about the same cost as it would take
to make one).  Since I had a spare twisted cable lying around, I modified my
old interface board, and it worked fine.  There is still a problem with drive
ready, but I'll get to that later.

In the IBM twisted cable, all wires go directly to the first drive connector
(drive B) and then wires 10 through 15 are twisted and installed backwards for
the second drive connector (drive A).  The ground wires all come out correct,
so this results in swapping positions for DS1/Motor ON and DS2/DS3.

On your interface board, connect the controllers Drive Select 1 signal to the
Floppy Interfaces Drive Select 1 (Motor On for Drive A) and Drive Select 3
(Drive Select 2 for Drive A).  The controllers Drive Select 2 still connects to
the floppy Interfaces Drive Select 2, and also to Motor On.

Both A and B drives should now be configured as Drive B, because of the twist.
Drive A goes on the end of the cable, after the twist.  The termination
resistor should now be in drive A, rather than Drive B, because A is at the end
of the cable.

Have an controller that supports 4 drives?  No problem.  Add a second 34 pin
header to your interface board, and connect as above, substituting the
controllers Drive Select 3 and Drive Select 4 signals for Selects 1 and 2.
Again, Drives C and D must be configured as Drive B, and a termination resistor
should be in drive C (which goes at the end of the cable).

Hmmm, for those who might have been lost by my "Interface board", you need a
way to connect the signals coming from the 8" drive controller to the 5.25 (or
3.5) inch drives.  I took the controllers signals directly using a 34 wire
ribbon cable.  That connects to a 34 pin wire wrap header on my Interface
board.  There is a second 34 pin wire wrap header on the interface board, and
that is for connecting to the floppies themselves.  Using a wire wrap tool, I
then connected all the interface signals to their proper pins on both headers.

Last, I mentioned a Drive Ready problem.  On my Chinon 1.2Mb drives, there was
a jumper to select between the Disk Change Function and Drive Ready on pin 34
of the floppy.  I set it for Drive Ready .... and it almost worked.  The signal
*IS* compatible with the 8" drive ready signal.  The problem is that my
computer times out before the drive is ready and gives me an error.  Since the
drive is still spinning (the drive spins of about 10 Seconds after it is
de-selected, in case you want to use it again), if I try the command again,
everything works fine.

Still it's a pain to boot twice, or type DIR, wait then tell it to retry.

The obvious solution would be to tie the controllers drive ready signal to
ground.  As Zoltan Fekete pointed out, this will probably work fine for reading
the drive, but could cause problems when trying to write to it.  I have had no
problems writing to the drive .... yet.  But I have not used the system enough
to know if I can get away with this or not.

The other solution of course, would be to modify the BIOS (I think) of the
computer so that it takes longer for the error time out when spinning the drive
up.  Sigh!

I assume that most of you who have done this conversion have just tied Drive
Ready to ground?  If so, how well has it worked?

                ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

------------------------------

Date: 11 Mar 91 18:05:04 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] ("Jacques J. Goldberg") writes:
>4-Who knows David's new e-mail address so I can send him that patch, in
>  case there is any general interest in it?

The last address that I have for David is !wet!pallio!dg and is a couple of
months old.  You might try it, Jacques.

                                                 - don

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------------------------------

Date: 11 Mar 91 12:31:00 GMT
From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (Fred Scacchitti)
Subject: Shugart 801
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I've got an 801 available at the price you asked (25 + shipping)-
message me or call (716) 482 -7159 if you're still interested. After
6:00 PM.

Fred


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------------------------------

Date: 11 Mar 91 01:33:31 GMT
From: magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!urchin![e-mail]  (Doug Platt)
Subject: Wordstar 4.0
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


Hello Roger

Have heard nothing back from you Re Wordstar 4.0

Have you disappeared?


                  Doug


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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 23:15:06 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Thu, 14 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   56

Today's Topics:
                           Kaypro 10 backup
                           RDCBM.COM author
                         Re: Kaypro 10 backup
                         Re: RDCBM.COM author
                      Re: Small Comm Program(s)
                      S100 cage wanted (2 msgs)
               wordstar! wanted, Attention Doug Platt!
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 13 Mar 91 19:51:54 GMT
From: ogicse!adaptive!asi.com![e-mail]  (Casey Bahr)
Subject: Kaypro 10 backup
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Greetings CP/M'rs.  I hope this is the appropriate place to ask these questions.
It was the only CP/M newsgroup I could find. We must be a dying breed :)

I just became the proud owner of a Kaypro 10, and I'm wondering if anyone has
any ideas about methods or devices I could use to regularly backup the 10M
hard drive?  It seems prudent especially in light of the firm warnings to use
"safety" before turning off the power.  I'm sure I'll forget that more than
once or have a power outage while running sometime and I'd like to be able
to restore things.  I hope I don't have to transfer everything through the
floppy drive.

Also, while I'm here, does anyone know of a source for a PD C compiler for this
beastie?

Thanks,

Casey Bahr
[e-mail] | ogicse!adaptive!casey | uunet!adaptive!casey
Adaptive Solutions, Inc., 1400 NW Compton Dr. Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006
VOICE: [phone] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ FAX: [phone]

------------------------------

Date: 12 Mar 91 06:37:09 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu![e-mail]  (Robert Andrew Knop)
Subject: RDCBM.COM author
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Does anybody know a current E-mail address for the author of the CP/M program
RDCBM.COM, which reads Commodore disks from the C128's CP/M mode?  I would be
interested in getting ahold of the source code for that program.  I tried the
address given by the program, ihp4!killer!sentinel, but that didn't seem to
work.

Thanks,

-Rob Knop

------------------------------

Date: 14 Mar 91 15:48:09 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (Justin Harlow)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 10 backup
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Casey Bahr) writes:
>
>Also, while I'm here, does anyone know of a source for a PD C compiler for this
>beastie?
>
There used to be a tom of PD stuff out there, but the sources have
pretty well dried up. I do have a copy of "Small C" for my Kaypro-10,
It's a real <PIG> though; slow, limited syntax, no include function
(recompile stdio.h every time, for instance....), and worse. I'll send
you a copy if I haven't thoroughly discouraged you yet.

J. E. Harlow
Reply to [e-mail], please

--
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Date: 14 Mar 91 00:37:45 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vax7![e-mail]  (Ron Murray)
Subject: Re: RDCBM.COM author
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Robert Andrew Knop) writes:
> Does anybody know a current E-mail address for the author of the CP/M program
> RDCBM.COM, which reads Commodore disks from the C128's CP/M mode?  I would be
> interested in getting ahold of the source code for that program.  I tried the
> address given by the program, ihp4!killer!sentinel, but that didn't seem to
> work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rob Knop

   Think I wrote one in Turbo Pascal about 3 years ago, but I can't remember
the details (I'm only the one who wrote it ...). I will look.

....Ron
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Date: 12 Mar 91 17:27:59 GMT
From: math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!unido!horga!veeble![e-mail]  (Paul Lenz)
Subject: Re: Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Phillip Evans) writes:
>Hello everyone _ I want to know the smalles comm programs for CP/M.  All
>I need are terminal capabilities, ASCII capture, and Xmodem.  The best
>one will be shoehorned into 63K of EPROM which is why size is a premium.


My terminal program is SMODEM.COM with Xmodem (CRC).
I have the source code, and you can delete everything you don't need.

Proppi


[e-mail]  ...!unido!horga!veeble!proppi
Paul Lenz    Friesenstrasse 22    D-3000 Hannover 1
=--> Remember: Rock'n'Roll and CP/M never die! <--=

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Date: 12 Mar 91 11:47:03 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: S100 cage wanted
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I'm looking for a nice and sturdy S100 card cage.

    WHAT I WANT:

    1) 8 to 21 slots
    2) not too heavy (ie. UPS shippable :-)
    3) card guides (plastic - preferably anti-static)
    4) I would prefer a wire-wrapped backplane
    5) good quality
    6) cost below $50.00 obo

    WHAT I DON'T WANT BUT CAN LIVE WITH:

    1) power supply (I have a nice 1,200W, already)
    2) sheet-metal cage (weight considerations)

    I think that's about it. I plan to use this for a non-S100
    project (custom wire-wrap). I'll pay shipping (providing it's
    rational :-) E-mail if you have something that fits the above
    description.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

------------------------------

Date: 12 Mar 91 11:47:03 GMT
From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: S100 cage wanted
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I'm looking for a nice and sturdy S100 card cage.

    WHAT I WANT:

    1) 8 to 21 slots
    2) not too heavy (ie. UPS shippable :-)
    3) card guides (plastic - preferably anti-static)
    4) I would prefer a wire-wrapped backplane
    5) good quality
    6) cost below $50.00 obo

    WHAT I DON'T WANT BUT CAN LIVE WITH:

    1) power supply (I have a nice 1,200W, already)
    2) sheet-metal cage (weight considerations)

    I think that's about it. I plan to use this for a non-S100
    project (custom wire-wrap). I'll pay shipping (providing it's
    rational :-) E-mail if you have something that fits the above
    description.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 07:56 EDT
From: Brainwave Surfer <[e-mail]>
Subject: wordstar! wanted, Attention Doug Platt!

Dear Doug,
  I'd like to buy your copy of WordStar.  Please get to me.

Jim Agnew

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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 17:15:32 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #57
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INFO-CPM Digest             Sun, 17 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   57

Today's Topics:
             need disk expansion module for Xerox 820-II
                Need power supply for Osborne Exec...
                     Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
                         Re: Kaypro 10 backup
                         Re: VT100 emulation
                      Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 16 Mar 91 19:13:27 GMT
From: vax5.cit.cornell.edu![e-mail]  (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: need disk expansion module for Xerox 820-II
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

       I recently posted a similar message to misc.forsale.computers, but
I'll ask here too.
       Does anyone have a disk expansion module (DEM) for the Xerox 820-II
that they'd be willing to part with for a reasonable price? I'm looking to
expand my system a little bit, and need the flexibility of the hard drive
and 5.25" floppy that the DEM would allow me to use.
       Oh, I don't need the actual drives themselves really, just w/o the
drives, but I'll consider anything...so don't me off if you have a DEM but
don't want to part it out.
       Thanks.

--
       Andrew Orndorff
       CIT, Research & Analysis
       Cornell University
       Internet: [e-mail]
       Bitnet:   bqsy1@crnlvax5

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Date: 14 Mar 91 21:41:32 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu![e-mail]  (Jeff Schilling)
Subject: Need power supply for Osborne Exec...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Howdy,

I looking for a replacement power supply for an Osborne Executive.
It was made by Astec, Model #9355 65W with 5v@5a, +12v@1.5a, +12v@2.1a
and -12v@.25a.

While a direct replacement would be nice, any comparable ps with
equal or greater ratings would do, providing it fits in the case. (The
current one measures about 8x4x2 in.)

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanx in advance.

-Jeff
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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------------------------------

Date: 13 Mar 91 18:42:08 GMT
From: celit!fpssun![e-mail]  (Mike Northam ext 2651)
Subject: Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Holliday) writes:
|
| MatchPoint-PC and the UniDOS board are made by:
|
|    Micro Solutions, Inc.
|    132 West Lincoln Highway
|    DeKalb, Illinois 60115
|    [phone]
|
| And I purchased UniDOS from:
|
|    Emerald Microware
|    12470 S.W. First St.
|    P.O. Box 1726
|    Beaverton, Oregon 97075
|    (sorry, don't know the phone #)
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     [phone]  hope this helps



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Date: 14 Mar 91 16:05:11 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 10 backup
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Casey Bahr) writes:
>I just became the proud owner of a Kaypro 10, and I'm wondering if anyone has
>any ideas about methods or devices I could use to regularly backup the 10M
>hard drive?  It seems prudent especially in light of the firm warnings to use
>"safety" before turning off the power.  I'm sure I'll forget that more than
>once or have a power outage while running sometime and I'd like to be able
>to restore things.  I hope I don't have to transfer everything through the
>floppy drive.
>
I wouldn't worry too much about using 'safety' unless you are in a big hurry
to shut down.  The K10 is set up such that when the '10 meg' LED is out, the
heads have been parked.  'Safety' simply does this before the time-out.

As regards backup, the floppy is the logical answer.  Sorry!

>Also, while I'm here, does anyone know of a source for a PD C compiler for this
>beastie?
>
Perhaps someone else can help you on that.


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Date: 11 Mar 91 18:05:04 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] ("Jacques J. Goldberg") writes:
>4-Who knows David's new e-mail address so I can send him that patch, in
>  case there is any general interest in it?

The last address that I have for David is !wet!pallio!dg and is a couple of
months old.  You might try it, Jacques.

                                                 - don

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Date: 17 Mar 91 18:36:08 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!diku![e-mail]  (Klaus Ambrass)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Carol Coates) writes:


>    Greetings. I must have taken a mouthfull of that stupidity-potion.
>    That file, VT100KAY.AZM, is *ALREADY* uncompressed! Sorry about
>    that last post, folks.

Well, I had that prob myself once.
Way back then, it was due to the packing format applied by who ever packed
the file in the first place.
    I have an Amstrad cpc6128 and found that sometimes, when you CRUNCH a
file you can UNCR it, but not UNCRLZH it. I know it sounds loony, but the
two programs are in fact different.
    Maybe you have them same prob here. I dunno.
    You might try to TYPE the file and look at the displayed content. If
you get something containing a string of text that looks like a filename within
the 100 bytes or so, it probably IS still packed - one way or the other.
    Perhaps your file is simply renamed? (probably tried that already, but
don't blame me for telling you the obvious though :-))
    Oh, another stupid thing I got worked out only last month is that
SOME people (Amsters) really use the PC's LHARC packing format to crunch the
files they want packed. I found that a small tool - LHRD - can extract files
from PC's *.LZH to CP/M standard files.
    If you still have a troublesome file then Kill The Bastard!

>    It hit me, after I had a snack... lack of calories, I guess ;-)

We'll come back to that later.

>    Take care.

Now, make up your mind!

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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon, 18 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   58

Today's Topics:
                            Hard Disk Skew
                            K10 and a BBS?
                 Re: About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT
                    Re: Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
                      Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
                      Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
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Date: 15 Mar 91 21:51:44 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!austex![e-mail]  (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: Hard Disk Skew
Message-ID: <XkeVy1w163w@austex>

I have a Kaypro 10 with a TurboROM and a Seagate ST-125 21 meg 3.5 in hd.
I used the Advent ADVFMT program to set up the drive, using a skew of 1,
the same, I suppose as an interleave of 1:1.  The drive access seems slow,
compared, for instance to another K-10 I have (my BBS) with a ST-251-1 5.25
in. 40 meg hd. Are there any programs out there that anyone knows of which
will give one information on the optimum skew for a particular machine/hd
combination.  The controller is the original Western Digital WD-1002.

                                    Lindsay Haisley


"Everything works if you let it!"
 --- Travis J. Redfish
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
uucp: austex![e-mail]
 BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)

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Date: 18 Mar 91 05:57:56 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: K10 and a BBS?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings.

    I'm sorry to say that my CP/M days are numbered - I'm finally
    getting a 486 (with a 200MB ide, SVGA, etc :-) and I have
    to make up my mind on what to do with my Kaypro 10 :-(

    I can do any of the following (or you can suggest something
    else):

    1) I am considering getting a TurboROM (I know, I know... I've
    been saying this for a while.. ;-) since I already have a 30MB
    and the standard 10MB drive (40MB total) and run a BBS. We have
    a local BBS that has some CP/M stuff - something like 600K -
    not much, really. I plan to fill up the drives with stuff from
    simtel - I already have all of the Kaypro and ZCPR 3.3 stuff :-)

    I have a nice ZCPR 3.3 setup and people have told me that it
    will be much easier to run a BBS on my setup that on stock
    CP/M 2.2 (anyone comment?) I just got the hang of zex and the
    wheel "business"... Anyways, anyone can recomment a decent BBS
    package? Space is not a problem but I would like the system to
    be "nice" to both the people who are seasoned CP/M users and to
    those who just got a CP/M machine for $25 :-) Anyone?

    2) Sell my K10 as it is - I'm thinking against this since I'm
    in the local computer club and there aren't that many CP/M people
    in the club (if I withdraw, there will be 2 :-) so I might just
    keep it to keep the group "reasonably" alive...

    3) Trash the K10 motherboard and put in a passive backplane
    with a CPU (IBM-on-a-board) card and a HD and FD controller.
    That way I have a portable PC... the floppy drive is IBM
    compatible, so is the HD, and I think I can get the display to
    work with a MDA card (if not, I can always get a CRT that fits
    and DOES work with MDA). If that's the case, the MB is up for
    grabs :-)

    4) Sell my K10 on the net :-(

    I'm really interested in #1 - make a BBS out of it. I already put
    2 more 3 1/4" fans so I don't think 24H operation will hurt it.
    All I need now is the software. I'm open to suggestion.

    Take care. Please use e-mail when replying.

    P.S. I'll take a look at the simtel BBS stuff tonight and report
    on it's performance this week.. (well, _next_ week)

--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

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Date: 15 Mar 91 21:20:35 GMT
From: pilchuck!dataio!fnx![e-mail]  (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Subject: Re: About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
>Hello|
>
>   I've juste bought MEDIA-MASTER v5.01 which now include a CP/M-Z80
>software emulator... for PC XT or AT...

I have Media Master.  It's a *great* product for copying various formats
of CPM disks to MessyDos, but it's emulation of CPM was pretty poor.  I
couldn't get Zork to give a nice looking display :-)

I found Z80MU to be a much better product for emulation.

>   It emulator either Z80, 8080 (software), and for which who have a
>NEC V20 instead of a intel processor: 8080 (hardware)... because this chip

The latest version (the commercial version) of Z80MU also supports this,
although Joan recommends against it due to some (unspecified) bugs in the
8080 emulation of the V20.

>   This emulator permit to acces I/O port... To acces RS232C for example (|)

The commercial version of Z80MU also allows access to I/O ports.

>And they have add a new Bdos fonction which permit to call any PC's bios fnct
>   But it simply emulator a CPM22 (or perhaps a ZCPR because of the LIST cmd?)
>           But it exist... Try it |       Bye| Alex.   <MONTARON@FRP8V11>


I have not gotten the auto-install version of ZCPR to work with Z80MU,
because there is no real BDOS, just a funny little 256 byte trap
area.  I suspect that Media Master would suffer from the same deficiency(?).

Regarding Z80MU:

It is an impressive product.  I tried the commercial version and did not
like it, for a very application specific reason.  I actually run Unix,
with an MSDOS emulator, running the CPM emulator.  The new commercial
version of Z80MU has gobs of screen output with formatting and cursor
addressing junk.  Probably looks great on a regular PC, but in this
particular configuration screen I/O is expensive.  My application is
a database written many years ago when I was running CPM exclusively and
is too expensive to port.  I find disk operations are considerably faster
than the old 4Mhz Z80 floppy only system.  CPU intensive stuff is
noticeably, but not objectionably, slower than the Z80.  (This is on
a 20Mhz 386, under VP/IX).  Screen I/O on the Z80MU freeware version is
slow, but not painfull.   Under the commercial version it is just
unacceptable (Note that this is probably not the case running under
standard MSDOS where direct screen I/O is really direct).

BUT:

I picked up a PC BLUE Z80 coprocessor for a good price, and when installed
in an otherwise worthless XT I found an excellent CPM machine.  Running
at a full 4Mhz, combined with the XT's fast disk I/O and 40MB of hard disk,
it makes an excellent solution.  This is not really CPM, in that you work
at the dos prompt, and all normal DOS tools are available (such as a
real 'make' which I never had under CPM, and real date stamping, etc),
while the CPM programs automatically run under the coprocessor and exit
back to dos when done.  The real disadvantage is that I have to work on the
XT machine instead of the much preferrable Unix machine.  Now if I could
just get a coprocessor that would run under Unix, I might have the
perfect setup :-)


--
del AKA Erik Lindberg                             uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
                          Who is John Galt?

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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:53:31 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk![e-mail]  (Steven van Aardt)
Subject: Re: Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Does anyone out there, know how I can go about converting this CP/M '86 based
machine to run DOS ? I believe that someone has got DOS 2.1 running on it,
if so I'd be very grateful if you could reply.

Steven van Aardt.
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Date: 18 Mar 91 12:27:55 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Klaus Ambrass) writes:

> [e-mail] (Carol Coates) writes:
>
>
> >    Greetings. I must have taken a mouthfull of that stupidity-potion.
> >    That file, VT100KAY.AZM, is *ALREADY* uncompressed! Sorry about
> >    that last post, folks.
>
> Well, I had that prob myself once.
> Way back then, it was due to the packing format applied by who ever packed
> the file in the first place.
>     I have an Amstrad cpc6128 and found that sometimes, when you CRUNCH a
> file you can UNCR it, but not UNCRLZH it. I know it sounds loony, but the
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^ FALSE, FALSE, FALSE!!!!!!
> two programs are in fact different.


(flamethrower on maximum and enjoying it!!!!)


YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY DEAD WRONG!!!!!!


I USE UCRLZH.COM TO UNCRUNCH ?Z? FILES ALL THE TIME!!!!!!

(flamethrower brought down to minimum)

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ME EAT MY WORDS, TRY IT!!!  I know I'm right
about this one.  I know because I've used it. Have YOU tried it?
UCRLZH11.COM _WILL_ uncrunch ?Q?, ?Z?, and ?Y? files.  What you
just said is one of the biggest crocks I've ever seen!

(flamethrower off)

Sorry about that.  I had to get you with this one with the
fullest possible permissible setting on my flamethrower without
cussing (if it WAS permitted, I would have said and/or called you
some real doozies).  Mainly because I use the program ALL THE
TIME and I _KNOW_ what it can do.

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Date: 14 Mar 91 13:22:35 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk![e-mail]  (Steven van Aardt)
Subject: Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  Steven van Aardt.


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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 19:46:34 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #59
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INFO-CPM Digest             Tue, 19 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   59

Today's Topics:
            Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                  Re: Small Comm Program(s) (2 msgs)
                  Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems (2 msgs)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 05:47:26 GMT
From: waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
> [e-mail] (Klaus Ambrass) writes:
>
> > Well, I had that prob myself once.
> > Way back then, it was due to the packing format applied by who ever packed
> > the file in the first place.
> >     I have an Amstrad cpc6128 and found that sometimes, when you CRUNCH a
> > file you can UNCR it, but not UNCRLZH it. I know it sounds loony, but the
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^ FALSE, FALSE, FALSE!!!!!!
> > two programs are in fact different.
>
> (flamethrower on maximum and enjoying it!!!!)
>
> YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY DEAD WRONG!!!!!!
>
> I USE UCRLZH.COM TO UNCRUNCH ?Z? FILES ALL THE TIME!!!!!!
>
And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
no Bios source available to my knowledge).

FTR, I have successfully used UCRLZH to uncrunch files (.?Z?), so it
definately does work.  This was not off the floppy drives on the
Amstrad, however (this is where the bug is).

So the real answer is that you are both right....  :-)  Sortof.

> IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ME EAT MY WORDS, TRY IT!!!  I know I'm right
> about this one.  I know because I've used it. Have YOU tried it?
> UCRLZH11.COM _WILL_ uncrunch ?Q?, ?Z?, and ?Y? files.  What you
> just said is one of the biggest crocks I've ever seen!
If you own an Amstrad, and you haven't had any problems, I would love to
hear what you do.  Otherwise, YOU don't know exactly what you are
talking about.

May I suggest, in future, that you don't jump in with all guns blazing
(to mix metaphors), and instead find out why the person made the
statement?

Also, FTR, the reason that one program works (UNCR), and another doesn't
(UNCRLZH), seems to be connected with the amount of register
preservation they do, the amount of use they make of the extra Z80
registers, what they actually call, and a few other things.

For instance, unzip (David Goodenough) doesn't work too well on the Amstrad
drives for some reason.  It works fine off my Ram disk (the patch for
which appears to have been made (autoinstall program) at a higher level
than the bug) however. [BTW, this is nothing against David's program --
it SHOULD work perfectly on the Amstrad, and does on other systems]

Unarc (I forget who wrote it at the moment), on the other hand, works
perfectly.  I looked through the source, and saw lots of places where it
used the extra registers very carefully, and preserved them all the way
through (interupts off), etc.   The comments mentioned problems with
extra register usage on "various computers".

Further information, (for those with advice rather than flames!), it
appears that everytime this bug occurs the same piece of code/whatever
is copied into the disk-sector buffer, rather than the sector required.
Only 128 bytes long, but morethan enough to scamble anything that is
supposed to be being decompressed.  I discovered this when one of my editors
(ZDE - I don't have any source to check what it does) had the same problem.

One more little thing to note, the problem doesn't occur all the time,
and as far as I can tell it happens at random.  This cannot be true, but
I haven't discovered what causes it yet.  One possible lead is that
sometimes a file will fail, and then if the operation is tried again
after resetting the drives, it will work.  [This is CP/M+, BTW, the
drives are supposed to auto-reset when needed]

Sorry, everyone, that this has got this long.  It was intended to rebut
the flame, but the opportunity to seek others opinion on the problem
couldn't be missed.

Any useful suggestions are welcomed, and any off-the-cuff flames will be
dealt with in a suitable manner (ie, probably ignored!).

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 16 Mar 91 04:05:17 GMT
From: usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au![e-mail]  (Ross Alford)
Subject: Re: Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Lenz) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Phillip Evans) writes:
>>Hello everyone _ I want to know the smalles comm programs for CP/M.  All
>>I need are terminal capabilities, ASCII capture, and Xmodem.  The best
>>one will be shoehorned into 63K of EPROM which is why size is a premium.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!
This is CP/M, not Mess-Dos.  I've never seen ANY comms program for CP/M
bigger than about 40K or so, and that is MEX1.14, which does all sorts
of tricks.  I suspect that just about any program you pick will fit on a
64K ROM.  I'd suggest trying MDM7XX, for which the full source is (or
was, ca 1984) available on SIMTEL.  You can always cut out things you
don't want.

Ross Alford
[e-mail]

--
Ross A. Alford
Department of Zoology                      Internet: [e-mail]
James Cook University                      Phone:    [phone]
Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia

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Date: 18 Mar 91 17:36:00 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral![e-mail]  (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Re:  Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Just to throw my own 2d in, if you are looking for term programs
for CP/M that you can readily find source to, you might want to try Kermit.
I know the source is availabe, that is how it is distributed.
    I have the 4.0 source, and I have modified it to work with some of
my stranger machines, so it is VERY flexible that way.
    The only problem I can see, and this applies for most of the other
programs too, I think, is that most of the CP/M programs that I am familiar
with don't maintain the strict segregation of code and data space that is
essential if you are going to run the prog off of the ROM.  You may be
forced to move the entire routine to RAM as part of your startup, and then
page the ROM out.  The only other alternative is going through hundreds of
K of assembler source trying to movde all of the data stores to wherever in
your memory map you have some RAM, not my idea of fun.
    Good Luck!
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|  P.O. Box 479            |                    |
|  Naperville, Il.  60566-0479    |  "One is best punished for one's    |
|  USA                |   Virtues."  Nietzsche.        |
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Date: 16 Mar 91 12:51:25 GMT
From: pasteur!agate!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Carol Coates)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I must have taken a mouthfull of that stupidity-potion.
    That file, VT100KAY.AZM, is *ALREADY* uncompressed! Sorry about
    that last post, folks.

    It hit me, after I had a snack... lack of calories, I guess ;-)

    Take care.

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Date: 20 Mar 91 08:08:40 GMT
From: waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!marcamd!mercury!kcbbs![e-mail]  (Antony Warbrooke)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.080840.286@kcbbs>

How would I get a copy of the library VT100KAY.LBR ???
As I come from New Zealand I don't really want to make any large Toll
Calls to the States and was wondering if anyone knew of any place in
N.Z. that would have a copy of this file???

Any help would be most appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance!

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 10:15:18 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Thu, 21 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   60

Today's Topics:
                  Apple II/CPM communications prog?
                            Cromemco Z-2D
                need docs for random S100, Weird Stuff
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                    Re: Z-80 Softcard Question???
                      Z-80 softcard question???
                          Z8001 and C900...
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Date: 19 Mar 91 16:09:41 GMT
From: hpda!hpcuhc![e-mail]  (Doug McKenzie)
Subject: Apple II/CPM communications prog?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

My Dad has an Apple II (possibly II+, not IIe) with a CPM card, off which he
runs in particular Wordstar.  However, his only communications program runs
on Apple DOS, making him unable to edit email very well, or hack up
responses to news articles :-).

Could anyone offer a recommendation for a (public domain hopefully) CPM
communication program that works on an Apple?

Thanks a lot!

Doug McKenzie
HP HP-UX Support
[e-mail] or ...hplabs!hpda!mck
408 447-4428

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Date: 20 Mar 91 17:47:33 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!usenet!prism.CS.ORST.EDU![e-mail]  (Erik Petersen)
Subject: Cromemco Z-2D
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have a Cromemco Z-2D computer system running
version 2.36 of CDOS  (a CP/M derivative). What
I would like to know is, does anyone out there
have such a system and, if so, do you have a hard-
drive? I need to know what the part number is on
the controller and what kind of interface the controller
expects to the harddrive (ST-506 perhaps?) Of course,
if you want to sell your harddrive and controller,
I'm interested.

Thank you.

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   Erik Petersen                                (Home Phone: [phone])
   [e-mail]

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Date: 20 Mar 91 20:59:15 GMT
From: hoptoad![e-mail]  (Curt Mayer)
Subject: need docs for random S100, Weird Stuff
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I managed to snag some nice S100 boards from Weird Stuff in Santa Clara
at absurd prices.  anyway, i need documentation or pointers, or even
"thats garbage" on a few of them.

    DTC 10-1 sasi/scsi host adaptor.
    Dual Dmem 256k memory card
    Dual Emem 1M memory card
    UCI Easyram 2M memory card
    CCS streaming tape interface
    JB systems fd/sasi interface
    JB systems Z80 slave processor
    DPC-180    looks like 64k z80 slave board
    CCS 4 port serial

I've got docs for just about all morrow and compupro cards, so if
anybody has a need for that kind of thing, get in touch.

--
    curt mayer
        [e-mail]
        [e-mail]
        415-387-0217 home
        415-506-2504 work

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Date: 20 Mar 91 08:43:43 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Ewen McNeill) writes:

> And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
> same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
> describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
> in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
> no Bios source available to my knowledge).

(stuff deleted along the way)

> FTR, I have successfully used UCRLZH to uncrunch files (.?Z?), so it
> definately does work.  This was not off the floppy drives on the
> Amstrad, however (this is where the bug is).
>
> Sorry, everyone, that this has got this long.  It was intended to rebut
> the flame, but the opportunity to seek others opinion on the problem
> couldn't be missed.
>
> Any useful suggestions are welcomed, and any off-the-cuff flames will be
> dealt with in a suitable manner (ie, probably ignored!).

My deepest apologies.  I guess I assumed that all BIOSes were
pretty much well-behaved and it seems to be restricted to some
BIOSes.  Also, it probably has something to do with the fact that
those computers are running CP/M Plus, which I've heard can be
flakey at times.  That's why I stick with my CP/M 2.2 stuff
(highly uprated w/ZCPR33 and stuff like that...)

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Date: 21 Mar 91 09:39:51 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Z-80 Softcard Question???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Kenneth G. Smith) writes:

>
> I have recently obtained a CP/M card for my Apple II+ computer (without
> documentation) and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a few
> questions...
>
> 1)  The card has four binary switches on it.  They are all set to the
>     OFF position.  I was wondering what exactly these switches are for.

Two turn interrupts on and off, one deals with memory mapping
(the Z80 card remaps the system's memory rather radically to take
into account that Pages 0-3 are sacred to the 6502, but you can
alternatively switch that mapping off to make the Z80 see it as
the 6502 sees it; for CP/M to work properly, you MUST turn
mapping on because you don't want the 6502 and the Z80 throwing
each other curves... (grin).  Also, the point needs to be made
that the card in question, the Softcard, distributed by
Microsoft, as in the ORIGINAL Softcard, not the Softcard //e,
talks DIRECTLY to the Apple hardware just like the 6502 does.  In
fact, when the Z80 has control, it puts the 6502 to sleep (I
believe it does nothing more than execute wait states).), and the
remaining one controls how the card interfaces to the Apple DMA
daisy chain.

The switches are like this:

      sw1    sw2    sw3    sw4
     MEM MAP DMA   IRQ/INT NMI  <--- SAME ON BOTH
             DAISY  ^   ^
             CHAIN  |   |_ Z80  NAME
                    |_____ 6502 NAME

Sw1:   On:  Disables memory remapping
       Off: Enables memory remapping (Apple CP/M default)


Sw2:   On:  When DMA daisy chain input is dropped low, the Z80
            will drop what it's currently doing to let a
            high-priority device do some DMA and relinquish
            control back to the 6502
       Off: Won't stop at all no matter what priority device is
            requesting DMA

                            ___                          ___
Sw3:   On:  Hooks the Z80's NMI line up with the Apple's NMI line
            on the expansion bus so the Z80 will be interrupted
            upon receipt of a non-maskable interrupt.  The
            Softcard recommends that interrupts, maskable or not,
            should be handled by the 6502 which also sees the
            interrupt, so it can clear its interrupt status and
            return control back to the Z80.
       Off: Disconnects the line.

                            ___                          ___
Sw4:   On:  Hooks the Z80's INT line up with the Apple's IRQ line
            on the expansion bus.  Discussion is the same as
            above.
       Off: Disconnects the line.

The default settings for the switches should be all of them off
for Apple CP/M to work properly.

> 2)  Of the several disks I obtained with the card, I have a program
>     called 'NULU' which deals with libraries.  I was wondering what the
>     purpose of a library is and how you go about using one.  I have
>     only one '.LBR' file on the disks called 'LUX42.LBR' (on the modem7
>     program disk) and haven't been able to manipulate the data in it to
>     any great extent (other than listing it's members using 'NULU').

LUX will deal with libraries too, but they're designed for
RCP/M's.  To extract the LBR's contents (provided they're not
compressed), type "-x" and then a drive/file specification, most
often times the file specificaiton will be "*.*" to extract
everything.  If you were to type "-x b:*.*" at the NULU prompt in
an open library, that means to extract all the files to drive B:,
but it won't unsqueeze the files if they're squeezed (those
files, often times, will have a "Q" as the second letter of the
file's extension).  For those files, use "-q" instead of "-x".
To unsqueeze all files with Q as the second letter of the
file type, type "-q b:*.?Q?" which will unsqueeze (or try to) all
files with the letter "Q" as the second letter in the file type.
Most CP/M programs with multiple files are in the .LBR format,
but there are the occasional .ARK, .ARC, and .ZIP files.

> I believe the card is refered to as a Z-80 Softcard and doesn't appear
> to have any manufacturer's markings on it.  Therefore, I don't believe
> it is actually an Apple made card.

As I said a couple of paragraphs ago, they were distributed by
Microsoft.

> Can anyone enlighten me soas I may get the maximum use out of this
> system.  I have used the CP/M OS with some success and really like what
> it does for my rather modest system.

If you have used CP/M on other computers, then using CP/M program
on the Apple will be more or less the same as you have used them
on, say an Osborne, a Kaypro, an SBC, or an S-100 box.  However,
if you plan to do a lot of stuff between operating systems,
particularly in ProDOS, I very much suggest that you get a
program called "Chameleon" which runs under Apple ProDOS and will
transfer between all four major diskette formats, i.e. DOS 3.3,
ProDOS (you'll need this to run Chameleon), Pascal (it will only
support the 5 1/4" variety, I believe), and CP/M.

Have fun!

------------------------------

Date: 20 Mar 91 15:13:00 GMT
From: rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (Tom Rieger)
Subject: Z-80 softcard question???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

-> 2)  Of the several disks I obtained with the card, I have a program
-> called 'NULU' which deals with libraries.  I was wondering what the
->   purpose of a library is and how you go about using one.  I have
->   only one '.LBR' file on the disks called 'LUX42.LBR' (on the modem7
->   program disk) and haven't been able to manipulate the data in it to
->   any great extent (other than listing it's members using 'NULU').

 NULU will also allow you to extract the member files. Use the -H
command to see a listing of the various options available in NULU.

 A library file is simply a method of grouping certain files together
into one file for transfer or storage. Often the files are also
compressed in some way as well (squeezed, crunched etc...)

           [e-mail]


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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 07:55:13 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Z8001 and C900...

Hello|

 First thing... about ZP/EM (Media Master)... i haven't test it at all,
but it emulat really faster than Z80MU... In Z80MU each BIOS function and
BDOS entry point are replaced by the HALT instruction (which is trap)
i think it's also true for ZP/EM but i've not look at |
 What's the price of Z80MU commercial release?

To the person who have a Amstrad CPC 6128 (like me) where are you?
 In europe i suppose... In U.K. ? In Frence (like me...) ?
Does a HARD DISK exist for the Amstrad ???

Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
 COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
 it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
 this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
 Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
Bye| Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

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INFO-CPM Digest             Fri, 22 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   61

Today's Topics:
                      About Amstrad' Bios bug |
                            Cromemco z-2d
                         Dead Otrona Attache
                 Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                        Re: Z8001 and C900...
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 20:48:49 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: About Amstrad' Bios bug |

Hello|  I'm happy (in fact no) that someone else has found the bug...
 which replace a good sector (a CPM's block of 128 bytes) by anything else...
But if you typed ^C (equal to Bdos fnct number 13) it will work perfectly|

I thought it is  because of my ram-disk (DK'tronics 256Ko)... because one of
 my friend has a CPC w/o ram-disk and all work well| I've a clue about the bug
 All read & write disk access pass throught buffer (see BCB=Buffer Control Blk)
 There's at all 32Ko of buffer (as tou can call cache disk|) located on bank
 number 2 if i remember well. If the patch of the ram-disk alter this area it
 will bug when CPM attempt to save this block (perhaps it's the patch itself|)
 Because ^C flush (but not save) all buffer to disk...
 I think the answer is near | Make a list of BCB, search buffer & verify
 content of all buffer... to solve the bug you have to minimize buffers...
 It's my opinion... What do YOU thing of this ?

I've the OPERATOR's AND PROGRAMMER's GUIDE for the AMSTRAD CPC6128 & PCW8256
by Digital Research Inc. & Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc... it's a very
good book but it doesn't talk about the BIOS... and BCB (buffers) are manage
by the BIOS (see also DPH=Disk Parameter Header... which contain a pointer to
the first BCB...) I've an other book which talk about the BIOS but it's very
short |
Does someone have a better book which talk about programming (not using|)
 CP/M+ include BIOS part please... Thanks...

I hope i've forgetten anything...   Alex Montaron <[e-mail]>

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Date: 22 Mar 91 06:31:00 GMT
From: magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (David Barnes)
Subject: Cromemco z-2d
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Erik;
        I have quite a bit of Cromemco equipment here, a couple of
systems have hard disks, 1 has an 8inch IMI and the other has a 5.25
inch IMI (20 meg)... Cromemco had a couple of different hard disk
controllers, the WDI and WDI-II boards were the earliest, then the STDC
card came along, (st506 interface)... I have lots of docs if you are
interested also... What do you use your machine for??? Do you have
CROMIX???


                                David Barnes


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Date: 21 Mar 91 16:29:46 GMT
From: csusac!kaos![e-mail]  (Luke Coletti 408-647-3736)
Subject: Dead Otrona Attache
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  A dead Otrona Attache was placed on my doorstep late one night, with its
rightfull quardiansi, and probably gratefull ones at thati, no where to be
found. Actually the Otrona for its time was quite the little box, a color
graphics capability ect, I am quite impressed with its contruction as well.
 To bring it back to life I'll need to find someone who either was with the
company or has a set of schematics. Symtoms are a totally inactive bus, so
no monitor functions, the cpu was replaced and the ROMs examined no change.
  Any help would be appreciated.

Luke
MBARI
[e-mail]

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Date: 21 Mar 91 02:38:20 GMT
From: ogicse!adaptive!asi.com![e-mail]  (Casey Bahr)
Subject: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Sorry if this belongs in the FAQ file.

I'm trying to use a modem communications program on my Kaypro 10.
It appears to be a derivative of MDM730 (sic?).  The on-line
documentation, however, doesn't give me a clue as to what type of
terminal it's emulating, which is where I'm having trouble.  Somewhere
else in other documentation I remember seeing that the Kaypro emulates
a Lear-Siegler adm3a, so that's how I've tried setting the termcap
on the Unix (Sun) machine I'm trying to connect to.  Everything
except vi seems to be working ok (TERM and TERMCAP in my environment
look right for an adm3a).  In vi I get a garbled screen that
makes editing pretty difficult.  I remember long ago using a Kaypro II
and I think the same comm. pgm., but I don't remember how I got around
this problem.

I'm pretty illiterate in this area, so I'm hoping someone in this
group can enlighten me or provide some heuristics to getting the
termcap set properly.  Or maybe direct me to a different comm. package.
I do have a printed document for SUPRTERM, which says it emulates an
adm3a, but I can't find that software on any of my disks.

Thanks in advance,


Casey Bahr
[e-mail] | ogicse!adaptive!casey | uunet!adaptive!casey
Adaptive Solutions, Inc., 1400 NW Compton Dr. Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006
VOICE: [phone] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ FAX: [phone]

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Date: 21 Mar 91 21:23:30 GMT
From: waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[I would send this by Email, but this site (way off in NZ), doesn't know
about the UUCP psuedo-domain, and just bounces the stuff. Sorry,
everyone else.]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
> [In reply to a flame rebuttal from [e-mail] (Ewen McNeill)]
> My deepest apologies.  I guess I assumed that all BIOSes were
> pretty much well-behaved and it seems to be restricted to some
> BIOSes.  Also, it probably has something to do with the fact that
> those computers are running CP/M Plus, which I've heard can be
> flakey at times.  That's why I stick with my CP/M 2.2 stuff
> (highly uprated w/ZCPR33 and stuff like that...)
Your apology is accecpted.  I have heard a fairly large number of BIOSes
which have problems with various things - most written for Z80 machines
in the days when 8080 code was the most common, so they assumed that
they had the extra registers to themselves.  This is no longer true.

I doubt that the fact they are running CP/M+ has anything to do with it.
CP/M+ seems okay to me, most of the time. Occassionaly it fails to relog
in a disk, but that is only because of the way it detects a new disk
(directory checksumming).  No where near as much hassle as logging in
disks under 2.2!

The trouble with the Amstrad implementation of CP/M 2.2 is that they
used a graphics screen (all the machine has - bit map 16K), which steals
most of the useful memory.  There is only about 42K TPA - hardly enough
to do anything.

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 21 Mar 91 10:01:16 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Z8001 and C900...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:

> Hello|
>
>  First thing... about ZP/EM (Media Master)... i haven't test it at all,
> but it emulat really faster than Z80MU... In Z80MU each BIOS function and
> BDOS entry point are replaced by the HALT instruction (which is trap)
> i think it's also true for ZP/EM but i've not look at |
>  What's the price of Z80MU commercial release?

I've never heard of that one.  Who puts that one out?  I would
like to kick the tires on that one.  As for the "HALT"
instruction, it does seem a logical way to write a software
emulation of the BIOS.  As for how MS-DOS picks it up, curious
how that would work.  Nick Sayer wrote someting similar, but this
is under UNIX.

> To the person who have a Amstrad CPC 6128 (like me) where are you?
>  In europe i suppose... In U.K. ? In Frence (like me...) ?
> Does a HARD DISK exist for the Amstrad ???

You might want to try either Emerald MicroWare (whose address I
could go and snag) if anyone wants it) or any type of controller
that plugs into the Z80 slot.  Most of these controllers come
with software that will talk to the hard disk no matter what kind
of machine it's running on.  I've seen such a setup which even
comes with source code for its BIOS so it's possible for me to
get a system like this for my Ampro (for which I have source for
its BIOS _AND_ main ROM) such that the entire BIOS which will
talk to both hard and floppy disks is entirely self-contained,
and can even boot from the hard disk and not have to boot only
from the floppy and manually (or semiautomatically) run a hard
drive initialization program (not format, but put routines up so
the system can talk to the hard drive).

> Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
>  COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
>  it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
>  this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
> The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
>  Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
> Bye| Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

Gads, you have me salivating!!!!!  I know this part of the
message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this:  Will it
be available in the US?  If so, that could finally put purely
UNIX machines in the hands of commoners.  Then I could gloat as
my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do.

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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 01:27:39 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #62
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INFO-CPM Digest             Sat, 23 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   62

Today's Topics:
             8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
                     9600 Baud Kermit for the 128
                           Kaypro TurboROM
            Re: Apple II/CPM communications prog? (2 msgs)
           Re: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation (2 msgs)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 22 Mar 91 18:14:47 GMT
From: eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tut![e-mail]  (Niilo Neuvo)
Subject: 8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I'm looking for a  8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix.
Our site had a program called zmac, which is fo Z80 and the manual
page says:

     The Zmac assembler is modeled after  the  Intel  8080  macro
     cross-assembler  for  the Intel 8080 by Ken Borgendale.

So does anyone know the name of this program, where to get it from
or how to contact Ken Borgendale. The only thing left of zmac here
is the manual page, so I can`t check the sources either. So finding
a ftp site that has zmac would propbaly help me a lot.

Please respond by mail. And please note that this article is a crossposting.
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Date: 23 Mar 91 02:35:10 GMT
From: magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!gn.ecn.purdue.edu![e-mail]  (Robert S. Ferguson)
Subject: 9600 Baud Kermit for the 128
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Is there a version of Kermit for the Commodore 128 that will support 9600
baud?  The c128 can support 9600, but the version of Kermit that I have
runs in the 64 mode, and only goes up to 2400 baud.  Kermit is the only
file transfer program that works with my UNIX account.

By the way, I have never really used the cp/m mode of my 128, so I would
need some way of running cp/m Kermit off of Commodore formated disks. I
have no problem downloading binaries in 64 mode, except that it is very
slow.  My system includes a c128, 1571 drive, and an 80 column monitor.
Thanks in advance,

<boB<
--
 Where's the KA-BOOM?                           | Robert Ferguson
 There was supposed to be an enormous,          | [e-mail] (or)
 Earth-shattering KA-BOOM!  -- Marvin Martian   | [e-mail]
 r-znvy-zr-vs-lbh-pna-ernq-guvf-naq-lbh-ner-n-grrantr-zhgnag-avawn-ghegyrf-sna

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Date: 23 Mar 91 03:51:57 GMT
From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!austex![e-mail]  (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: Kaypro TurboROM
Message-ID: <aXT9y1w163w@austex>

I have previously posted to this newsgroup the information that the TurboROM
for the Kaypro CP/M computers is available from Jay Sage (Sage Microsystems
East).  This is incorrect.  Jay Sage does NOT sell the TurboROM.  TThe
Advent TurboROM for the Kaypros is available from Charles B. Stafford, 4000
Norris Ave., Sacramento, CA  95812, phone [phone].  He has bought out
the stock from the now defunct Advent Corp. and is marketing it from his
home.  He has a variety of items from Advent's old line, including the
WD-1002 controllers, decoder boards, etc.


"Everything works if you let it!"
 --- Travis J. Redfish
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
uucp: austex![e-mail]
 BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)

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Date: 22 Mar 91 08:19:26 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Apple II/CPM communications prog?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:

> [e-mail] (Doug McKenzie) writes:

<< various stuff deleted >>

> > Could anyone offer a recommendation for a (public domain hopefully) CPM
> > communication program that works on an Apple?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> I've gotten ZMP and Qterm (and subsequently UUCP, but I haven't
> tested it) to run on SoftCard-equipped Apple II Plus myself.  But
> I need to know what kind of Z80 card you're using.  If you're
> using a Microsoft SoftCard, ALS's Z-Card or Z-Engine, or an
> Applied Engineering Z-80 card, I can help you.  If it's ALS's
> CP/M card or PCPI's AppliCard, I cannot help you.

I forgot to mention that both Qterm and ZMP are both public
domain and very good programs.

------------------------------

Date: 22 Mar 91 08:11:34 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Apple II/CPM communications prog?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Doug McKenzie) writes:

> My Dad has an Apple II (possibly II+, not IIe) with a CPM card, off which he
> runs in particular Wordstar.  However, his only communications program runs
> on Apple DOS, making him unable to edit email very well, or hack up
> responses to news articles :-).
>
> Could anyone offer a recommendation for a (public domain hopefully) CPM
> communication program that works on an Apple?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Doug McKenzie
> HP HP-UX Support
> [e-mail] or ...hplabs!hpda!mck
> 408 447-4428

I've gotten ZMP and Qterm (and subsequently UUCP, but I haven't
tested it) to run on SoftCard-equipped Apple II Plus myself.  But
I need to know what kind of Z80 card you're using.  If you're
using a Microsoft SoftCard, ALS's Z-Card or Z-Engine, or an
Applied Engineering Z-80 card, I can help you.  If it's ALS's
CP/M card or PCPI's AppliCard, I cannot help you.

------------------------------

Date: 22 Mar 91 18:25:03 GMT
From: baron!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Casey Bahr) writes:
>
>I'm trying to use a modem communications program on my Kaypro 10.
>It appears to be a derivative of MDM730 (sic?).  The on-line
>documentation, however, doesn't give me a clue as to what type of
>terminal it's emulating, which is where I'm having trouble.  Somewhere
>else in other documentation I remember seeing that the Kaypro emulates
>a Lear-Siegler adm3a, so that's how I've tried setting the termcap
>on the Unix (Sun) machine I'm trying to connect to.  Everything
>except vi seems to be working ok (TERM and TERMCAP in my environment
>look right for an adm3a).  In vi I get a garbled screen that
>makes editing pretty difficult.  I remember long ago using a Kaypro II
>and I think the same comm. pgm., but I don't remember how I got around
>this problem.
>
>I'm pretty illiterate in this area, so I'm hoping someone in this
>group can enlighten me or provide some heuristics to getting the
>termcap set properly.  Or maybe direct me to a different comm. package.
>I do have a printed document for SUPRTERM, which says it emulates an
>adm3a, but I can't find that software on any of my disks.
>
To my knowledge, all of the public domain communication packages use overlays
to tailor them to a particular computer.  Therefore, if your MDM730, or
whatever, runs on your KP-10 there is a very high probability that it has the
Kaypro's ADM-3 emulation built in.

If it would be useful to you, I could uue Superterm and send it off to you.
However, in my opinion it is a less desirable program.  Of the old standbys,
my personal preference would be for MEX114.

                                                 - don

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
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Date: 22 Mar 91 21:49:15 GMT
From: att!emory!ogicse!intelhf!ptdcell0![e-mail]  (Shannon Nelson)
Subject: Re: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Don Maslin) writes:
>To my knowledge, all of the public domain communication packages use overlays
>to tailor them to a particular computer.  Therefore, if your MDM730, or
>whatever, runs on your KP-10 there is a very high probability that it has the
>Kaypro's ADM-3 emulation built in.
>


The Kaypro uses a superset of the adm3a terminal commands.  The kp
enhancements make it much easier to live with, as the adm3a is
rather simple minded.  To help a little, here's the kaypro termcap
file that I've been using for several years.  Converting it to
terminfo is easy enough with captoinfo.


ky|kaypro:am:cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:\
    :le=^H:bs:cm=\E=%+ %+ :cl=1^Z:co#80:ho=^^:li#24:ma=^K^P:nd=^L:up=^K:\
    :dl=\ER:al=\EE:\
    :kd=^J:ku=^K:kl=^H:kr=^L:\
    :ce=^X:cd=^W:\
    :dC=3:dT=3:

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INFO-CPM Digest             Sun, 24 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   63

Today's Topics:
                 Osborne Executive printing problems
           Re: 8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
                    Re: About Amstrad' Bios bug |
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                         Re: Kaypro TurboROM
                        Re:  Z8001 and C900...
         Wanted: CPM for Imsai 8080 w/Imsai floppy disk drive
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Date: 23 Mar 91 13:38:55 GMT
From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed![e-mail]  (Chris Campbell)
Subject: Osborne Executive printing problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I've been having a major problem with my Osborne Executive since I acquired
it about three years ago.  I had been able to work around it for awhile,
but about two weeks ago said problem became very pesky, and the other
people using the machine haven't been able to work around it since then.
(I've been separated from the machine by an ocean and one and a half
continents for about two months.)

The problem is this: printing.  The Executive (ROM 1.21, BIOS 1.2 Enhanced)
had never properly loaded the printer information on boot-up from SETUP.COM.

Specifically, what was connected to the CENTRONICS port: no matter how it
was permanently saved, it would respond NONE when I asked to see what the
settings were in memory.  (When I asked it to show the settings from drive
A, it would invariably inform me that the printer was connected and was
presumably ready.)

As a result, whenever I wanted to print, I would have to exit the program
(usually WS), load SETUP, load the information from the drive into memory,
exit SETUP, reload the other program, and print.  This would work for as
long as I did not reset or shut down the computer.  This worked for quite
a while, and wouldn't waste much time.

However, this doesn't work anymore.  Now, after twiddling with SETUP so that
it recognizes the printer, the Executive will refuse to load any other
program, and will crash violently.  (This problem began with PrintMaster
(which could be worked around) but spread to WordStar (fatal).)

I've tried to fix the original problem many times, playing with SETUP, alt-
ernating BIOS versions (despite the other printing problems, such as
the notorious "Unassign this device?"), and am now at wit's end.

Any suggestions?

Chris Campbell
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: 22 Mar 91 22:14:32 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!descartes.math.purdue.edu![e-mail]  (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Re: 8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  I think you can get zmac on simtel20 under unix-c. It's not same syntax as
Microsoft M80, or DRI MAC.
  There was an 8080 macro assembler written in small-c by Hendriks ????
called  SMAC or some such, that was m80 compatible and produced relocatable
code. As far as I know, zmac only produced hex and binary.
  If you're not committed to emulating some particular cp/m assembler,
the macros can be done under unix with cpp or m4, so the essential piece is
the assembler itself.
  Yet another suggestion is to run a CP/M emulation under unix. You lose a lot
of CPU speed, but for assemblies the diskio may dominate anyway.
  To see how this works, rlogin in as "cpm" at hopf.purdue.edu.
This kicks you into a cp/m 2.2 emulation program. Change to drive B: and run
"mac bios "  to get an idea of how fast the emulation is for your purpose.
Clarence Wilkerson
.

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Date: 24 Mar 91 19:11:04 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: About Amstrad' Bios bug |
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
> Hello|  I'm happy (in fact no) that someone else has found the bug...
>  which replace a good sector (a CPM's block of 128 bytes) by anything else...
> But if you typed ^C (equal to Bdos fnct number 13) it will work perfectly|
Oh, no, it is not just anything else.  It is always the same.  I had a
360K file which I was reading through after putting it through a naughty
program (text file, BTW).  There were 15 problems in it (15/2000 or so
is not too bad, but not too good).  Everytime there was the same string.
Always.  This has happened in the past.  The string includes some NULLs
(0), as well, but basically starts like this
"s^L^s|FF|FFx@ff<fff<<`<....".   Everytime.  Most annoying.  It also
makes me think that it is actually program which is being put in,
probably because someone failed to save a register, or something.

> I thought it is  because of my ram-disk (DK'tronics 256Ko)... because one of
>  my friend has a CPC w/o ram-disk and all work well
This is interesting. I haven't been able to test it without the ram
disk, because I have had the software installed for ages (and it is hard
to test for something which is intermittent).  At one stage I did think
that it was something to do with the patch put on for the ram disk, and
I started disassembling that.  I ran out of time (near end of year, and I
am a student....:-(  It looks as though I should go back to this.
Thought -- how old is your CPC?  Mine is a model A.  I wonder if this
has anything to do with the problem (ie, a bug fix in later versions?).

> I've a clue about the bug
> There's at all 32Ko of buffer (as tou can call cache disk|) located on bank
> number 2 if i remember well. If the patch of the ram-disk alter this area it
> will bug when CPM attempt to save this block (perhaps it's the patch itself|)
> Because ^C flush (but not save) all buffer to disk...
This sounds like what I was thiking of, although I hadn't got as far as
exploring the buffering.  If you are able to do what you are suggest
please do so.  For my part, I will continue my disassembly of the patch.
dk'tronics are too far gone to be able to fight about the reverse
engineering, or help with a bug fix.

> I've the OPERATOR's AND PROGRAMMER's GUIDE for the AMSTRAD CPC6128 & PCW8256
> by Digital Research Inc. & Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc... it's a very
> good book but it doesn't talk about the BIOS... and BCB (buffers) are manage
> by the BIOS (see also DPH=Disk Parameter Header... which contain a pointer to
> the first BCB...) I've an other book which talk about the BIOS but it's very
> short |
Indeed it is sad. What do you have which talks about the BIOS?  We
really need something which talks about the Amstrad BIOS, or better
still a disassembly.  I will ask someone who does a lot of CP/M
programming here if they have any good books.

Anyway, I am pleased to see that I am not alone.  This also tends to
suggest to me that I was on the right track disassembling the patch for
the silicon disk.  If I can only find the disk it was on (1 of about
200....) I will go back to it.

BTW, are there any other Amstrad CPC owners out there with this
problem?

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 23 Mar 91 00:55:31 GMT
From: eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!nowster![e-mail]  (Paul Martin)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Ewen McNeill ([e-mail]) wrote these words:

> And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
> same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
> describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
> in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
> no Bios source available to my knowledge).

Are you sure you are running the CPM+ supplied with your 6128?

> For instance, unzip (David Goodenough) doesn't work too well on the Amstrad
> drives for some reason.  It works fine off my Ram disk (the patch for
> which appears to have been made (autoinstall program) at a higher level
> than the bug) however. [BTW, this is nothing against David's program --
> it SHOULD work perfectly on the Amstrad, and does on other systems]

Voila! Non-standard system. I have an Amstrad CPC 464 with 512K
banked RAM, and the 6128 ROM. I have used David Goodenough's
UNZIP program every day for the last 9 months without a single
problem, even with 200K ZIP files.

I have just tried UCRLZH11 on a ?Q?, a ?Z? and a ?Y? file with no
problems.

May I hazard a guess that you're running ZCPR or similar, or
something else non-standard?

--
Paul Martin     ..!uunet!tharr!pm.nowster | CP/M systems never die - they
[e-mail]  ([e-mail]) | just get more BIOSed with age.
       <-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK -->

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Date: 24 Mar 91 00:28:43 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Kaypro TurboROM
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

roadhog@austex (Lindsay Haisley) writes:

> I have previously posted to this newsgroup the information that the TurboROM
> for the Kaypro CP/M computers is available from Jay Sage (Sage Microsystems
> East).  This is incorrect.  Jay Sage does NOT sell the TurboROM.  TThe
> Advent TurboROM for the Kaypros is available from Charles B. Stafford, 4000
> Norris Ave., Sacramento, CA  95812, phone [phone].  He has bought out
> the stock from the now defunct Advent Corp. and is marketing it from his
> home.  He has a variety of items from Advent's old line, including the
> WD-1002 controllers, decoder boards, etc.
>
>
> "Everything works if you let it!"
>  --- Travis J. Redfish
>  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> uucp: austex![e-mail]
>  BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)


Hi, Lindsay!  Just thought I'd interject this; I know Chuck
myself, and if you want to send a message to him (he is presently
not on the net), send it to me and I will see to it that he gets
it.  He and I are members of the local Kaypro group.

BTW, just wondering, Lindsay, do you have NovaDOS Release J ready
yet?

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Date: 23 Mar 91 18:14:41 GMT
From: casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral![e-mail]  (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Re:  Z8001 and C900...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
>[e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
>> Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
>>  COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
>>  it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
>>  this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
>> The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
>>  Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
>> Bye| Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
>
>Gads, you have me salivating!!!!!  I know this part of the
>message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this:  Will it
>be available in the US?  If so, that could finally put purely
>UNIX machines in the hands of commoners.  Then I could gloat as
>my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do.

Yes this is wrong place, but the thread has already started.  The C900
seems to be one of many Commodore European orphan machines, if you are
interested in UNIX then look to the Amiga 3000 UX, this machine is based
off of the Amiga 3000 68030 platform, is already in final beta stages, and
is the first machine out there to run UNIX SV r4.  Drool drool drool!!!
    I have talked with a Commodore rep and supposedly it will sell with
the entire UNIX package, X.11 and I think it was open look, NFS(TCP/IP), an
ethernet board, a 200 meg hard drive and either 6 or 8 megs of ram for well
under 10,000.  The system also will support the 24bit color card that is
coming out soon...

By the way, it will also turn into an Amiga 3000 with just a slightly
different boot up procedure (you use the mouse to pull up a boot menu and
click on Amiga or UNIX for what you want).

This isn't a chep machine, but it is a nice looking low end workstation,
and it blows away anything I have seen in the Mac arena...
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|  P.O. Box 479            |                    |
|  Naperville, Il.  60566-0479    |  "One is best punished for one's    |
|  USA                |   Virtues."  Nietzsche.        |
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Date: 23 Mar 91 19:57:21 GMT
From: littlei!intelhf!agora![e-mail]  (Alan Batie)
Subject: Wanted: CPM for Imsai 8080 w/Imsai floppy disk drive
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I managed to pick up an Imsai, and would like to do *something* with it.
So, does anyone know where I can get CPM for it?
--
Alan Batie                                     Some people believe they have
[e-mail]                           never met a gay person.
[phone]                                That's what we get for hiding.

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INFO-CPM Digest             Wed, 27 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   64

Today's Topics:
                Adding a hard disk to an O1 - How to?
               Amstrad BIOS problems -- Moderately Long
                             Epson Geneva
                          Quantum Hard Drive
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                    VT180 bios information needed
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 25 Mar 91 20:42:24 GMT
From: llnl.gov![e-mail]  (Kirk Fitzgerald)
Subject: Adding a hard disk to an O1 - How to?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have an Osborne 1 at home that I would use if I had a hard disk.  Any
suggestions or ideas?

Kirk

Have Fun!!!

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Date: 27 Mar 91 09:47:31 GMT
From: usc!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Amstrad BIOS problems -- Moderately Long
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[To those who are not interested in the nitty gritty of a fairly
annoying bug in a patch to the Amstrad Bios, please skip this message
now.  Anyone else, feedback is very welcome to [e-mail], or to
this group]

After seeing various peoples thoughts about what the problem with the
Amstrad BIOS which causes certain programs not to work properly, I did
some experimenting with my Amstrad.

The hardware concerned was an Amstrad CPC6128, with serial interface,
512K of extra ram. For the entire of the test, I used David Goodenough's
unzip program (wonderful program, despite the problems that Amstrad
has), and a 20K Zip file which I picked up somewhere.

The first thing I tried was removing all my extra hardware, and using
the original boot disk.  Unzip from A to B drive, worked fine.  The next
thing was to reintroduce the hardware.  The Unzip still worked fine.  I
then went back to my normal boot disk (with silicon disk patch), and
tried the same thing.  It worked fine.

Then I started experimenting with variouus combinations of drives, and
came up with the following results:

    ZIP file    Output file    Error?
    A        A        No.
    A        B        No.
    B        B        No.
    B        A        No.
    C        C        No.
    C        B        No.
    C        A        No.
    A        C        Yes.
    B        C        Yes.

These results did not change with various pieces of hardware plugged in,
or various patched versions of the CP/M Plus file.  Obviously the C
drive doesn't exist under unpatched versions, so that couldn't be
tested.

However, this does rule out one possibility, of the patched mentioned in
the Serial Interface "Book of Spells" (for the uninitiated, this book
has a picture of a wizard on every page... talk about annoying!).  I
have tried this patch, and it didn't help. I have also tried the patch
for double sided drives (I have one), and it didn't help either.

Because of the way that unzip works (decompresses to default drive),
decompressing to C drive required a command sequence like:

 A>c:
 C>a:unzip a:zipfile.zip e

This means that C drive is the current drive. This seemed to be the only
time when the bug showed up.  I am not sure whether this bug applies to
writing, or not, I suspect that it doesn't. [Other evidence supports
this, see below]

This leads me to the following conclusion:  There is a bug in the patch
for the silicon disk which causes problems when the silicion disk is the
current one, and one of the other drives is read from. This bug is an
occassional one, which appears apparently at random. This suggest
something like interupts being enabled at the wrong time, or whatever.

BTW, every time I have had a failure in this manner (a "faulty" block in
a file), I have been logged into C drive (I usually do -- it is a good
temporary drive), and reading from a floppy drive (usually B).  This
tends to confirm my research of today.

I am continuing my disassembly of the PATCHER.COM program.  I have
sorted out most of the program which does the actual patching, but
sorting out the bits that are patched over is more of a problem.  I am
using DazzleStar (my first time, it looks good) to do the disassembly,
and it allows me to declare various bits as instructions, bytes, words
etc. Very powerful.  If anyone wants a copy of the DazzleStar temporary
file (which will allow you to look through PATCHER.COM too), let me
know.

I would appreciate someone else trying to duplicate my results. This may
well explain why one poster didn't have any problems, and others of us
have.  In the mean time, I would advise unzipping either from the floppy
drives to the floppy drives, or totally in the ram drive.

For your reference, other programs which are affected by this bug: ZDE,
Nsweep (only on certain sized files), LT29, FCRLZH, NULU. There are
probably plenty more, but those are the ones that I have run across so
far.

Any suggestions accepted by Email, or to this group.

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 26 Mar 91 18:38:55 GMT
From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu![e-mail]  (david lee)
Subject: Epson Geneva
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Anyone know where I might find an Epson Geneva laptop. It's a cute
portable CPM machine. Thanks,
David

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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 12:00:17 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quantum Hard Drive
Message-ID: <"25-Mar-91 15:00:17 EST".*[e-mail]>

I have come up with two Quantum Q2080 8" hard drives.  Can anybody tell me
anything about them?  Are they more or less the same as the Shugart SA1004?
One thing that IS different is that there does not seem to be an AC power
connector for the drive.  There is just what looks like the standard six pin DC
power connector.

                ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

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Date: 25 Mar 91 18:25:50 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Martin) writes:
> Ewen McNeill ([e-mail]) wrote these words:
> > [About certain programs not working too well for some reason on a
> > Amstrad CPC6128 running CP/M+]
>
> Voila! Non-standard system. I have an Amstrad CPC 464 with 512K
> banked RAM, and the 6128 ROM. I have used David Goodenough's
> UNZIP program every day for the last 9 months without a single
> problem, even with 200K ZIP files.
This is depressing. Although it doesn't prove anything.  However, it
does sound as though there is something special about your banked ram,
or something.  Do you unzip things off the ram drive (I would do this
anyway because it is faster -- I only discovered the problem when I had
a small ram drive (one bank, instead of the usual two))?  This has no
problems.  It is only off the floppy disks, and it needs to be a pretty
big file (in another post I mentioned it happening in 15 128-byte blocks
out of about 2000 in a file) for the "random" chance to happen.

> May I hazard a guess that you're running ZCPR or similar, or
> something else non-standard?
I am running CP/M+, as supplied, with a serial interface (no special
patch), and a ram disk (and the patch for it).  The ram
disk consists of both banks of ram, although I have had the same problem
with just one bank plugged in. I think I may even have had problems
without any ram plugged in, but the patch installed.  The serial
interface is a possibility, I guess -- who else of those with problems
has a serial interface attached to their system?

This does make me think of the ram patch as being the problem, so I have
started to disassemble it again. If anyone is interested in helping
work on this, you will need a copy of PATCHER.COM (out of the ram disk
rom), and a copy of DazzleStar.  I will send a copy of the DazzleStar
temporary file, which defines the symbols, etc.

Anyway, it is amazing how many Amstrad users there are out there.  Three
of us have had problems, and one hasn't. There seems to be little
difference between the setups.  We have, however, learnt that there is
no problem with using the ram drive, but there appears to be with using
the floppy drives.  On a random basis.  Does anyone know different?

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 12:36 EDT
From: Brainwave Surfer <[e-mail]>
Subject: VT180 bios information needed

Guys, i need either:  information, bios listing, bios source, or where
to go for the bios for a Digital VT180 Robin...  Jim
[e-mail]
(EDU, NOT EDT)

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INFO-CPM Digest             Fri, 29 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   65

Today's Topics:
              Comms program for Televideo Portable TPC1
                          com program needed
            Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
                        Re: com program needed
          Re: Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
                 SCSI-driver for 5380/8490-SCSI-Chip
            UUCP for cpm or whereabouts of Dave Goodenough
                 Want to swap 5 inch to 8 inch floppy
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Date: 28 Mar 91 09:40:24 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mullauna![e-mail]  (Michael CIAVARELLA)
Subject: Comms program for Televideo Portable TPC1
Message-ID: <mikec.670153224@mullauna>

Hi *

Does anyone out there know of or have a comms program to suit
a televideo TPC1 portable?  Its a Z80 based CP/M machine, running
(I think) CP/M 2.2.  Is there an ftp site availbe which has something
along these lines?

Thanks,

Mike

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Date: 27 Mar 91 04:14:00 GMT
From: sgi!cdp![e-mail]
Subject: com program needed
Message-ID: <1099600001@cdp>

Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a communications program
that will transmit and receive CP/M files?  mcaldon, EcoNet.



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Date: 27 Mar 91 18:43:14 GMT
From: casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral![e-mail]  (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have a few machines made by a company called OSM, located in CA.  The
machines are ZEuS 3s and a ZEuS 4, these are multi user CP/M systems.
They will support most of the MP/M calls, and will even allows background
precesses, but work using mutliple CPUs in a networked configuration.  The
master provides file system services, print spooling and a few other neat
features.
    I am very fond of these computers, but I have a few problems with
the ZEuS 3s.  The copy of the os (M.U.S.E.) I have for them only supports
306 cyl 6 head 15meg hard drives, these are impossable to find.  Further
the systems are now starting to get flaky on boot.  One will only boot if
an 8 inch floppy is attached, the other (The one I had all my imporatant
data on) refuses to boot at all now...
    If anyone out there has ever heard of these machines, PLEASE mail
me, if anyone has any information on what happened to the company, or any
people who were involved with it PLEASE mail me.  I am lloking for newer
versions of the OS (I have 4.1 for the 3s and 4.7 or 8 for the 4) or at
least versions of the sysgen that will support other hard drives.  If
anyone has schematics, or patch information for the BIOS, again I would be
most thankful...

    I am looking for anything I can find.  These are really nice
machines, I want to be able to keep using them if at all possible.  Any
help would be wonderful!  Thanks.
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+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|  Russell Rezaian        |  amiganet.chi.il.us!austral!rrezaian    |
|  P.O. Box 479            |                    |
|  Naperville, Il.  60566-0479    |  "One is best punished for one's    |
|  USA                |   Virtues."  Nietzsche.        |
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+

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Date: 28 Mar 91 21:45:04 GMT
From: baron!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: com program needed
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] writes:
>
>
>Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a communications program
>that will transmit and receive CP/M files?  mcaldon, EcoNet.
>
>

For what machine?

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: 29 Mar 91 15:06:55 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!gauss.math.purdue.edu![e-mail]  (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Re: Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Sorry, no experience with Zeus MP/M type stuff.
However, on the subject of disk drives, any St-506
innerface drives I've used will cheerfully allow you to
use them at less than full capacity. So if the number of
logical heads is less than or equal to number of physical
head, and same for cylinders, almost any other
drive should replace the ones you have. For example,
Seagate ST251 's have 6 heads, and 820?? cylinders, and
are going new for about $250. Unfortunately, the cheaper
bargain drives such as ST225 only have four heads and would
not plug right in.

If the drive controller is SCSI, then the operating system
may think it reading a certain track and sector, but actually
eventually asks for an absolute sector number, so if the
scsi controller has set the correct parameters the operating
system would not know what it has physically.

Poke around under the hood and see what kind of hard disk
controller is there?
Clarence



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Date: 28 Mar 91 16:58:06 GMT
From: mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!bernina!neptune!iiic.ethz.ch![e-mail]  (Probst)
Subject: SCSI-driver for 5380/8490-SCSI-Chip
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Did someone already write SW for the National Semiconductor
SCSI Chip DP8490 or the NCR5380-SCSI-Chip? I've got a
Seagate ST1096 Harddisk which I'd like to connect to my
homebrew Z180-Computer and I don't want to reenvent the reel.
I'm looking for the low-level-SW dealing with the SCSI-Chip,
the connecting to the disk etc.  The BIOS is then no problem,
once I've got this SW.
I'd be very glad if someone could help me! :-)

Thanks in advance,
Urs Probst, [e-mail], Zurich, Switzerland.

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Date: 29 Mar 91 03:08:56 GMT
From: synchrods.com![e-mail]  (Daniel Senderowicz)
Subject: UUCP for cpm or whereabouts of Dave Goodenough
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I was wondering if anybody knows where can I get the latest
version of uucp for the KayproII. Furthermore I haven't heard of
Dave Goodenough since he moved to the west, did he make it or he
is still walking? Thanks,

Dan.

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Date: 28 Mar 91 20:50:36 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!terminator!pisa.citi.umich.edu![e-mail]  (Jim Rees)
Subject: Want to swap 5 inch to 8 inch floppy
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

This has nothing to do with CPM, but I understand you guys are the experts
on floppy drives.  I've got a computer (Apollo dn330) that has an 8 inch
floppy drive that I want to change to a 5 inch.  The 8 inch has a capacity
of 1.2 Mb, something like a st506 interface (sa850?), and a 50 pin card-edge
connector.  I've got pinouts for the 50-pin and also for the 34-pin
connector used by the 5 inch drives.

I'm told that the rotational speed is the same, and I know the sector layout
is the same, so I'm assuming that bit rates and signal timings will just
fall out for free.

1.  Will this work?

2.  Is there any chance this will just plug-n-play, or will I have to muck
around with the device driver in the OS?

3.  What do I do with pin 2 (density) on the 34-pin?  I assume tie it high
or low -- which is it?

4.  What about pin 16, motor-on?  Should I tie this high or low, or tie it
to pin 4, head-load?

5.  What is pin 2 on the 50-pin, RWC?  What should I do with it?

6.  Any tips on shopping for a 5 inch drive?  Will any drive with the 34-pin
(sa450?) connector work, as long as it's a 1.2 Meg drive?  How much should a
floppy cost?  The local repair shop has one for US $60, is that OK?

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 15:15:26 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #66
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INFO-CPM Digest             Sat, 30 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   66

Today's Topics:
                        CP/M Sector Interleave
                       Finding System Software.
                               NEC APC
               need info on OSM Computer Corp. machine
                      Re: CP/M Sector Interleave
                 Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #61 (2 msgs)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 29 Mar 91 15:56:04 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!austex![e-mail]  (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: CP/M Sector Interleave
Message-ID: <6FVkZ1w163w@austex>

Can anyone suggest a method or program to me by which I might optimize the
sector interleave on a hard drive on a CP/M machine?  I have recently
installed a Seagate ST-125 (20 meg) hd in my Kaypro 10 and although the
drive is speedy, the system seems to run quite sluggishly.  The format
program (ADVFMT.COM) allows a choice of interleaves, however I'm reluctant
to back off and reformat the drive (a job of several hours) until I know
the correct value.

I would also appreciate help from anyone who can give me precice definitions
of the terms skew and interleave.  I was under the impression that these
terms were the same, referring to the physical spacing between succcessive
logical sectors needed to optimize access times, however some of my recent
reading has led me to believe that these terms are not interchangable.


"Everything works if you let it!"
 --- Travis J. Redfish
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
uucp: austex![e-mail]
 BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)

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Date: 29 Mar 91 21:12:48 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!solman.mlb.semi.harris.com![e-mail]  (Ben Eaton)
Subject: Finding System Software.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

     Hello!

          I have come across a "ZORBA" portable computer, that is in good
     working order but there is no systems disk to go with the unit.  I
     know the following things about this unit:

          -  It was manufactured by:   GEMINI ELECTRONICS
                                       130 Baywood Ave.
                                       Longwood, FL  32750

          -  It is a Z80 based machine.

          -  It has two 784K TELCOM 5.24" disk drives.

          -  It uses a CPM operating system.

          If anyone out there knows where I can aquire a systems disk ( I am
      willing to pay for it ) or knows how I could reconstruct a systems disk
      I would like to here from you.

      Ben I. Eaton
      [phone]

          P.S.

                    I have already call the manufacturer and they were no
                help at all.




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Date: 29 Mar 91 03:08:59 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!labtam!eyrie![e-mail]  (Nicole Angst)
Subject: NEC APC
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have an OLD NEC APC(the original APC), on eof the dual MS-DOS / CPM
machines and am looking for some software for it. My manuals include a
manual for the extended graphics libraries under MS-DOS but I dont have
these libraries and NEC Australia have been less than helpful.

    I am interested in any other software for this beast and have
some user group software and a small C compiler under CPM and a full set
of manuals (including hardware!) if any one is interested.

niki

[e-mail]        OR    [e-mail]

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Date: 29 Mar 91 22:14:13 GMT
From: prism!wayward![e-mail]  (Harold C. Forbes)
Subject: need info on OSM Computer Corp. machine
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Someone gave me a couple of OSM machines with no documentation.
If I can find out something about them I would rather use them
than break them up for parts.  I have a Kaypro 10 so I'm not
a novice at CPM, but I'm not up to re-writing a BIOS either.

When it boots, I get the following message on one of the ports.
If I ^C after it says running, I can do CPM type stuff, like the
dir listing following.  The floppy seems to be P:, but I can't
read the floppy I found in the machine.  I think it was origonally
used for accounting stuff.  I don't know if it was a turn-key system
or what.

Thanks for any info.

    harold

O S M  Computer  Corporation
Multi-User  System
Release version 4.75/5.05
09/24/84
Copyright (c) OSM Computer Corporation 1982,1983,1984

Single 12mb, 96tpi floppy



MUSE-8/16  Ver 04.78 Initialization sequence...
running....

A>dir
A: XTALK    COM : DDT      COM : ALLOCHK  COM : TERMCAP  SYS
A: Z4SY5H01 COM : Z4SY5F01 COM : WSX      COM : PRINT    COM
A: Z4S5H07R COM : BADBLK2  COM : WHO      COM : FLBACKUP COM
A: EDIT     HLP : +XSUB    DRV : Z4SY5F03 COM : HRESTORE COM
A: HELP     COM : LOGON    COM : HELP     IDX : MEMTEST  COM
A: MAIL     COM : Z4MUSE   SYM : NEWDISK  COM : STAT     COM
A: COPY     COM : MAIL     COM : REHASH   COM : TYPE     COM
A: SETPASSW COM : Z4FMTFL  COM : TELECOM  SYS : FLARCHIV COM
A: +XSUB    COM : +SPOOL   COM : CHECKSUM DOC : HSHDIR   COM
A: FLOPPY   COM : SETMODE  COM : RSPLOAD  COM : Z4MUSE/U SYS
A: BADBLK1  COM : CSMASK   MSK : CS       COM : LOAD     COM
A: CLACRS   DAT : CHECKSUM COM : ASM      COM : DUMP     COM
A: EDIT     COM : FILES    COM : HBUILDER COM : TOFILES
A: HELP     TXT : PRLTRANS COM : SUBMIT   COM : REHASH   COM
A: TIME     COM : TELECOM  COM : WDFORMAT COM : Z4SY5H03 COM
A: Z4MUSE   COM : TOINDEX  AGE : CLLCF    DAT : WSMSGS   OVR
A: WSOVLY1  OVR : SPELSTAR OVR : MAILMRGE OVR : CS       OV2
A: CS       OVR : CSDUMP   OVR : INSTCS   OVR : BALSHEET CSD
A: DEMO     CSD : HELP1    CSD : HELPER   CSD : INSTCS   DAT
A: MIKSB200 DAT : CLLTR    DAT : CLSYS    DAT : SPELSTAR DCT
A: SAMPLE   TXT : CLS      COM : SHUTDOWN COM : WINSTALL COM
A: WS       COM : CS       OV1 : CSDUMP   COM : INSTCS   COM
A: MBASIC   COM : Z4S5F07R COM : TOMASTER AGE : 3TOLIST  AGE
A: 6TOLIST  AGE : TO000    OVL : TO100    OVL : TO200    OVL
A: TO300    OVL : TO400    OVL : TO900    OVL : TO       COM
A: CRTCONF  COM : APTTEST  CSD : SWE      FAN : CLLCF    BAK
A: COPY     COM
A>dir b:
B: Z4S5F07R COM : Z4MUSE   SYM : Z4MUSE/U SYS : Z4MUSE   COM
B: Z4S5H07R COM : NEWDISK  COM : COPY     COM : WDFORMAT COM
B: HSHDIR   COM : LOGON    COM : CLS      COM : CLSYS    DAT
B: CLLTR    DAT : CL       COM

FORBES, HAROLD C.   N5JCM
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!cc!harold
ARPA: [e-mail]
FORBES, HAROLD C.   N5JCM
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!cc!harold
ARPA: [e-mail]

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Date: 30 Mar 91 19:45:03 GMT
From: baron!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: CP/M Sector Interleave
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

roadhog@austex (Lindsay Haisley) writes:
>I would also appreciate help from anyone who can give me precice definitions
>of the terms skew and interleave.  I was under the impression that these
>terms were the same, referring to the physical spacing between succcessive
>logical sectors needed to optimize access times, however some of my recent
>reading has led me to believe that these terms are not interchangable.
>
It is my understanding that proper usage speaks to interleave on a disk
surface, and skew speaks to the positional relationship of corresponding
sectors on different surfaces.  That is, interleave is intended to allow for
processing time that the controller needs after reading one sector and before
reading the next.  Skew, somewhat similarly, is intended to account for the
processing time that the controller needs when switching read heads.

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 18:47:36 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #61

Hello|

   Someone is talking about a CP/M emulator on Unix system ???
So, the Unix system that i'll bought is based on a Z8000 perhaps is it
possible to make a more efficient emulation because only op_codes changes
(number not mnemonic)... The Z8000 has sixteen 16bits register and the
Z80 much less... Is someone interresting by this ? Also, i can write a
translater program which translat Z80 to Z8000 assembly language...
Like Z80/8080 to 8086 when new 16bits intel micro-processor appear in
1981,2 ? Does some have a such program (Z80 to 8086) ?

 Is there a Zilog micro-processor list ??? Can i talk about Z8000 here?
Where?

 Thanks for all...    Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 19:00:34 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #61

i've forget about the C900/Z8000/Unix machine...

To Ian Justman... It's a PROTOTYPE| so you can't find it in France nor in
 US nor anywhere... Sorry... But the Unix release is a beta release 0.9
 so there will be a lot of bugs i'm sure (but in Z8000 there will be no
 probleme...) Do you want to came in France to see it :-)

      Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri,  1 Mar 91 17:15:07 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #48
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INFO-CPM Digest             Fri,  1 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   48

Today's Topics:
           archive site for comp.os.cpm? and misc (2 msgs)
      FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
                  Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
                       Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
                       Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
                      Software Toolworks info...
                                ZCPR.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 28 Feb 91 13:03:43 GMT
From: vax5.cit.cornell.edu![e-mail]  (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: archive site for comp.os.cpm? and misc
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello all,
       I was wondering if comp.os.cpm is being archived anywhere? I've
been following the discussions on connecting 5.25 and 3.5" drives to 8"
systems and did not catch much of the earlier threads where detailed
information seemed to be given.
       Also, I have a Xerox 820-II with the 8" drives and was wondering if
anyone could provide me with the following information or pointers to where
I might locate this info:

       *floppy and hard disk subsystems: what is necessary, what can I
        use?
       *tech. documentation on the hardware, ROMs and anything else
       *pointers to firms that produce or market processor upgrades
        for the 820-II, like going to a Z280
       *anyone who has info on "homebrew" type alterations to this
        machine

       Thanks for any help.

P.S. Is there a Xerox users group anywhere in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic
states?
 --
       Andrew Orndorff
       CIT, Research & Analysis
       Cornell University
       Internet: [e-mail]
       Bitnet:   bqsy1@crnlvax5

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Date: 1 Mar 91 21:35:37 GMT
From: vax5.cit.cornell.edu![e-mail]
Subject: archive site for comp.os.cpm? and misc
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Andrew R. Orndorff) writes:
>      Also, I have a Xerox 820-II with the 8" drives and was wondering if
> anyone could provide me with the following information or pointers to where
> I might locate this info:
>
>      *floppy and hard disk subsystems: what is necessary, what can I
>       use?
>      *tech. documentation on the hardware, ROMs and anything else
>      *pointers to firms that produce or market processor upgrades
>       for the 820-II, like going to a Z280
>      *anyone who has info on "homebrew" type alterations to this
>       machine
>
>      Thanks for any help.
>
> P.S. Is there a Xerox users group anywhere in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic
> states?

You'll find all of the above rolled into one :) at Holly Park
RCP/M, 201-757-1497.  Dick Roberts, the sysop, will gladly sell
you his 8" hard drive kits, if you really want some extra heat in
your house :)  Chris McEwen also runs a BBS in the same area; I
don't recall the number, but I'm sure it's liberally plastered
all over Dick's system.

  --jh
--
John Hood, Mann Library, Cornell University
[e-mail], [e-mail], uunet!biar!jhood

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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91  15:30:02 EST
From: "Craig Spirka" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I own a hardworking Altos ACS8000 MP/M (multiuser) machine, which my wife
wants me to dump because it's taking up too much (guest) room.  I want to find
a good home for it with a fellow CP/M buff -- if they'll come to Santa
Barbara, California, and haul it away.

Here are the specs:

It's an Altos ACS8000 with Zilog Z80 microprocessor running MP/M II (V2.1).
It has an ACS 8200 Circuit Board supporting up to 4 concurrent users, with
208K of random access memory: 16K system memory, and 4 banks of 48K user
memory.  It has one (1) Single/Double density 8" floppy drive and a 14"
Winchester 40MB Hard Drive.

Also part of the free package is an Altos Magnetic Tape Unit (MTU-2, CMTD-
3400S2) to backup the hard disk onto 13.4 MB, 1/4", 450-foot, 4 track, high
density magnetic tape cartridges.  The MTU records data at 6400 BPI in serial
recording, Modified Frequency Modulation format, at 192 Kbits/second.

PLUS, a Televideo 925 monitor and TONS of:  manuals, 8" floppies, tape
cartridges, software on and off the hard disk --  a text editor, spell
checker, mail merger, accounting system, ADVENTURE, etc.

All for the low, low price of $0.  Just pick it up in Santa Barbara,
California, promise to love it forever, and haul it home.     -Craig Spirka


------------------------------

Date: Fri, 1 Mar 91 14:19:11 EST
From: "Robert J. Rodriguez" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M

Is there a version of Kermit or Mex for CP/M on the Apple that does not lose
characters at 1200 and 2400 baud? I have an enhanced Apple 2E that I'm
using with a Datalink 2400 baud modem to download some CP/M stuff from
an IBM mainframe at the college. The IBM does not support nulls, and requires
VT100 emulation for full-screen editing. The CPM Kermit that I have is very old
(maybe 5 years or more) and only supports VT52. It drops the first 3 or 4
characters of each line at 1200 or 2400 baud.

I have the Apple Prodos Kermit (3.86), and it works fine, but I'd prefer a
direct CP/M Kermit or Xmodem that can read binaries directly on to CP/M disks.

Also, has anyone tried the MS/DOS CP/M emulators on an Apple PC Transporter?

------------------------------

Date: 28 Feb 91 14:17:52 GMT
From: att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso![e-mail]  (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <"13-Feb-91.10:27:35.EST".*[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] writes:

| Doug, I am interested in your copy of Wordstar 4.0.
|
|                 ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

No doubt.  Do the WordStar people know of your interest?

--
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
[e-mail]                  ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave

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Date: 27 Feb 91 00:32:46 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!dsndata!unocss![e-mail]  (mlewis)
Subject: Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

From article <[e-mail]>, by [e-mail] (Curt Mayer):
> I have been given a Kaypro portable without boot disks.
> It says on the back panel, Kaypro 2, with an X on a sticker
> after the 2. It has 2 half height 5.25 floppies.


I hate to do this, but ME TOO!  A friend got a Kaypro 2 from his church,
and all it has is WordStar on a bootable disk.  No FORMAT, no PIP, no
NOTHING!
My day phone is [phone] x 150, and evenings [phone]

Thanks for ANY responses.
Marc

--
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Date: 28 Feb 91 23:14:12 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Software Toolworks info...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Was just wondering, is Software Toolworks still around (or for
that matter, Walt Bilofsky, its founder)?  I just picked up a
whole pile of their stuff from a local computer store, many of
the programs I have duplicates of.  One of the packages I picked
up was C/80 3.0 and I would like to know more about it and I
would like to know if there are any versions later than this one.
I have C/80 in both 2.0 and 3.0 versions, in hard-sectored HDOS
and soft-sectored CP/M.

------------------------------

Date: 28 Feb 91 14:23:20 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso![e-mail]  (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: ZCPR.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
| >    YOU NEED A K10 PLUS A HARD DISK (the more the better)
|
| Are you saying that ZCPR will ONLY work on a Kaypro with a hard disk, or is it
| capable of running on non-Kaypro, non-hard disk systems? (Such as a DEC
| Rainbow)

Works fine on my (Aus-made) Microbee, with twin floppies.  Or are we talking
about a strange version of ZCPR?

--
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
[e-mail]                  ...munnari!ips.OZ.AU!dave

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Date: Sun,  3 Mar 91 06:16:04 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #49
To: [e-mail]
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

INFO-CPM Digest             Sun,  3 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   49

Today's Topics:
   C compilers which can be linked with Assembler (SLR for example)
                      Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
                      Free altos z80:  208k ram
                  Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
                              Re: ZCPR.
                     Sharp MZ5600 : CP/M -> DOS ?
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 2 Mar 91 11:35:32 GMT
From: munnari.oz.au!uhccux!uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu![e-mail]  (Ralph Becker-Szendy)
Subject: C compilers which can be linked with Assembler (SLR for example)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Dear cp/m addicts, I am looking for a C compiler. Not just ANY OLD C compiler.
I want one which generates code which can be linked into Z80 Assembler. Here
is the problem: The monitor part of my BIOS (the thing which sets up the
machine before booting cp/m) is currently written in SLR assembler, as is the
rest of the BIOS. The amazing capabilities of the SLR assembler and virtual
linker make cross-linking between BIOS and monitor quite easy. However, the
monitor is getting longer and longer, and soon (with all the bells and
whistles which will be required for SCSI disks as soon as I get the low-level
SCSI driver to work, backup to SCSI tape, managing partitions on the disk and
storing the setup of the machine in NVRAM) it will become a burden to write
all this in assembler.

So I am looking for a C compiler with the following capabilities:
- ROMable code (that doesn't mean anything exceeding the following
  requirements, the code actually runs in RAM),
- Generate fairly tight code (it all goes into EPROM, and 32kB EPROM isn't
  that much if a whole C run time library wants to get into that),
- Define subroutines and data structures at arbitrary addresses (so it can call
  assembler routines and access BIOS data structures),
- Call assembler subroutines with control over nearly all registers (so it
  can pass and receive parameters from BIOS-internal routines),
- C routines have to be callable from assembler, and there will be no MAIN
  program,
- Code can be generated at any address, and the position of stack and heap can
  be moved,
- The IO library can be replaced or modified (source code would be best), since
  no BDOS is present when the program runs all IO has to be through BIOS
  calls or assembler routines internal to the BIOS,
- The compiler has to generate Microsoft or SLR type .REL files, because the
  linking has to be done by the SLR linker,
- or even better, it may to generate assembler source which can be assembled
  by the SLR asssembler.

Quite certainly my otherwise very nice MIX-C compiler will not do that. I know
of a few other C compilers (there is a PD small-C compiler on SIMTEL, and one
in VOL224 or the SIG collection), I hear that some compilers are still being
sold (for example by Jay Sage, or Aztek-C, and MI-C is still available for
lotsof money in Germany, not identical to the low-cost MIX-C), and others may
be defunct (C/80 and Quick-C come to mind). Are any available (frree, new for
sale, or "used" someone wants to unload) which can fill these requirements ?

By the way, I am in no way restricted to C. I would actually prefer other
languages like Pascal or Modula-2, but with those fancy languages the chances
of finding a compiler whose output can be linked into assembler are even
slimmer than with C.

For the long-term future (as soon as I finish my dissertation I might have some
spare time), are there any compilers which generate real Z280 code ? Or, for
that matter, even assemblers (I am not counting macro libraries which define
funny opcodes for the new Z280 instructions) ? That topic pops up every so
often. I hear of a few expensive cross-developments systems, but that's no fun.

--
Ralph Becker-Szendy                          UHHEPG=24742::RALPH (HEPNet,SPAN)
University of Hawaii                              [e-mail]
High Energy Physics Group                                  [e-mail]
Watanabe Hall #203, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822         [phone]

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Date: 3 Mar 91 05:54:22 GMT
From: ogicse!milton![e-mail]  (Bob Perigo)
Subject: Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Would like to breath some new life into a pair of old necAPCs.  That's those
combination cpm86/msdos beasts with the 8" disks.  Have you seen a PD release
of a c86 or fortran86 configured for it?

--
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 VOICE Bob at 206-367-4433 8am-8pm Seattle time    /     Seattle, WA
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Date: 2 Mar 91 17:43:00 GMT
From: rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (David Barnes)
Subject: Free altos z80:  208k ram
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Craig;
        Hi.. I will take your Altos system if you will box it up for me,
I will pay the shipping and some $$$ for your time and effort.. Matter
of fact if you call me I will give you some $$$ for the system, please
call me ASAP at [phone].. You can call collect if you like... I
am located in Rochester NY... thanks very much...

                                David Barnes


--
David Barnes - via FidoNet node 1:260/230
UUCP: {smart-host}!ur-valhalla!rochgte!242!David.Barnes
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: 2 Mar 91 17:28:51 GMT
From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!chalmers.se!fy.chalmers.se!fy.chalmers.se![e-mail]  (Jonas Hvarfner)
Subject: Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have an Osborne 1 with diskdrive problems.

If I format a disk with 22DISKs cfmt in an IBM PC, the B-drive on the
Osborne refuses to read it. I get "bad sector"-errors each time I try
a DIR B: or a TYPE B:TEXT.FIL (the file is written by 22DISK). If I
use COPY to copy the entire disk to another in the A-drive, it reads
up to about track 30-35 and then says "read error".

However, the Osborne does not complain whatever I do with this cfmt-
formatted disk as long as I do it in the A-drive. I can read and write
without any problems at all. The A-drive also reads and writes disks
formatted and written on in the B-drive. The B-drive sometimes, but not
always, complain about A-formatted and -written disks.

I have tested this on the Osborne at several times with new disks and
using different IBMs, always with the same disappointing result.

It's very annoying not to be able to trust the B-drive. Therefore
I would be very happy if someone could comment on the causes of this disk-
drive behavior. What can I do about it? If it is misalignment, can I align
the drives myself? If so, how? (I have access to an electronics lab with
oscilloscopes, frequency-counters etc.)

                                      Thank you!

                                      Jonas Hvarfner
                                      [e-mail]

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Date: 1 Mar 91 21:44:28 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cc.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: Re: ZCPR.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>
    [e-mail] (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
| Are you saying that ZCPR will ONLY work on a Kaypro with a hard disk, or is it
| capable of running on non-Kaypro, non-hard disk systems? (Such as a DEC
| Rainbow)

While running ZCPR on a Rainbow is quite nice, it's probably not that good
an idea. The Rainbow is primarily a CP/M-86 machine with a Z80 sidecar; ZCPR
only knows how to run Z80 programs, so you have to be willing to limit
yourself to those if you want to run it on your Rainbow. I gave up on that
because the I/O byte didn't seem to work correctly; I couldn't get, e.g.,
generic CP/M Kermit running on the Z80.

However, it does make a fairly nice setup; the Rainbow has a huge TPA
because the operating system runs on the 8086 and therefore doesn't show
up in the Z80's memory space.

Caveat: I was running ZCPR 1.something or other that I had severely hacked
over. I don't know about running ZCPR 3 on the Rainbow.
--
===============================================================================
Roger Ivie

35 S 300 W
Logan, Ut.  84321
[phone]
===============================================================================

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Date: 1 Mar 91 20:54:18 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!dsiramd!marcamd!mercury!kcbbs![e-mail]  (Richard Plinston)
Subject: Sharp MZ5600 : CP/M -> DOS ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.205418.12384@kcbbs>

I have one of these with both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS 2.11.

I need a postal address.

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Date: Mon,  4 Mar 91 17:15:49 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon,  4 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   50

Today's Topics:
                    Altos ACS 8000-2 needs a home
                       FREE Compupro 8085/8086
                          NZCOM replacenet?
                       PacPerson needs home...
                Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
                     Re: Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
                Re: Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 4 Mar 91 23:08:47 GMT
From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!dougfir.Berkeley.EDU![e-mail]  (Michael Van De Vanter)
Subject: Altos ACS 8000-2 needs a home
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

My old reliable computer needs a new home.

It is an Altos model ACS 8000-2.  This is an industrial strength (big,
sturdy, and heavy) CP/M machine with:

    - 64k memory
    - 2 Shugart 8" dual-density floppy drives
    - 2 serial ports (one connects to a terminal as console)
    - 1 parallel port (centronics printer)
    - single board (no backplane)
    - CP/M 2.2

Comes with original manuals, schematics, and other detailed
technical documentation, as well as original packing material.

It also comes with OPRA 7.4. This is a version of CP/M 2.2 enhanced
specifically for this machine (but compatible with all CP/M software).
Enhancements include increased disk capacity, disk i/o speed,
interrupt driven type-ahead buffer, and others.

I also have other tools and programming languages with documentation.

Make an offer, any offer, and come take it away.  Alternately, suggest
a group or organization to whom it would be more benefit than trouble,
and I will consider donating it.

    Michael L. Van De Vanter
    [e-mail]
    [phone] (evenings)

    Michael

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Date: 4 Mar 91 17:28:20 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvia![e-mail]  (gordon_staley)
Subject: FREE Compupro 8085/8086
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I a have FREE CP/M machine available.  All I ask is that the recipient pick
it up at my home in Corvallis, Oregon.

HARDWARE:
The system has 64K of memory and a 8085/8086 dual-processor.  There are two
8" floppy drives (1.2M) and a terminal (Televideo 925).  There are serial
ports for the terminal and a modem.  There is a parallel port that is ready
to have a centronics printer hooked up to it.  While the machine was still
in use it shared a printer with a PC clone using an A-B switch.

SOFTWARE:
I have CP/M 2.2, Wordstar, Super-Calc, Dbase 2, CBASIC, CP/M-86 and a number
of other packages for it.  I  believe that I have all of the system manuals
and most of the software manuals.

The system works fine.  It was taken out of service because my wife could no
longer get companies to print checks for the accounting software she was
using.  I hate to see this perfectly good system be sent to a landfill.  I
will take requests for the next 2 weeks.  Preference will be given to charit-
able organizations.  Please respond by e-mail.

Gordon Staley
gordon@hpcvia

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Date: 3 Mar 91 23:20:59 GMT
From: portal!cup.portal.com![e-mail]  (William Thomas Daugustine)
Subject: NZCOM replacenet?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

A coupla years ago, or whenever, I purchased NZCOM on Epson QX-10
format. After I copyed the disks, I put the originals away, and
didnt use them. Now, much time has passed, and when I tried to read
them, they seemed to have gone bad. Unfortunatly, I never mail in
those registration/guarentee/warrenty cards (if there even was one).
Is there any way I can get a (free) replacement?

Also, is the license of this software only valid for one machine? I
no longer own the QX-10, now instead I own a TeleTek System Master
with 8" DSDD drives...

Thanx

Billy D'Augustine
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 91 19:11 EDT
From: He did! He did get married bare-footed! <[e-mail]>
Subject: PacPerson needs home...

Hall-owww...!

As  some of you may have noticed, I began sending out a copy of
PacPerson to those who requested. The mistery is over; it is just
a cheap rip-off of Pacman and Ms. Pacman, with a CP/M touch.
Keep those requests coming, and they will be right on their way.

(One problem: the uuencoded file had as destination "M:PACPER.ARK."
I suspect this would cause a problem with some versions of UUDECODE
on a system without a M: drive. I haven't tried. If it does, simply
edit the darn file and get rid of the "M:"  The file is only 33K
long so most editors can handle it. Sometimes, learning to use
ED isn't that bad a deal...)

Now the sad part. I was just told be Keith Petersen (editor of this
newsgroup) that Simtel will not be accepting any more games and
will be deleting the ones that they already have (like Tetris).
So, I need a well-accessible file-serving place where these two
(PacPerson and Tetris) can be uploaded and to which I can redirect
far-future requests for those, and to which I can send more games
as I write them...  Some of you have already placed Tetris on the
BBS's, but I would like a "home base" for these games...

Any candidates?

  Thanks in advance, and enjoy!

       -John

------------------------------

Date: 3 Mar 91 23:38:55 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] ("Robert J. Rodriguez") writes:

> Is there a version of Kermit or Mex for CP/M on the Apple that does not lose
> characters at 1200 and 2400 baud? I have an enhanced Apple 2E that I'm
> using with a Datalink 2400 baud modem to download some CP/M stuff from
> an IBM mainframe at the college. The IBM does not support nulls, and requires
> VT100 emulation for full-screen editing. The CPM Kermit that I have is very o
> (maybe 5 years or more) and only supports VT52. It drops the first 3 or 4
> characters of each line at 1200 or 2400 baud.
>
> I have the Apple Prodos Kermit (3.86), and it works fine, but I'd prefer a
> direct CP/M Kermit or Xmodem that can read binaries directly on to CP/M disks
>
> Also, has anyone tried the MS/DOS CP/M emulators on an Apple PC Transporter?


Sorry, but you're SOL on that one if you have a
Microsoft/Applied Engineering Z80 card or any of its compatibles.
I tried to no avail to write interrupt routines, but I STILL lost
characters.  And this is at 2400+ on an Apple II Plus with a
Videx Videoterm!  The Apple CP/M system is a great system, but
this CANNOT be helped.  Please someone proveme wrong here because
I want the same thing.

As far as the PCT is concerned, it would STILL be too slow
because the PCT uses a 10 MHz V20 which makes the Apple a turbo
XT.  You could run Z80MU, but your effective speed would be
around 500kHz to 1MHz, so you'd be better off using a 386SX.  And
anything that takes advantage of the V20's hardware emulation
will let you use 8080/8085 stuff ONLY, which I think is too
limited, and what's worse is that I've heard is that the hardware
emulation is buggy.

------------------------------

Date: Mon,  4 Mar 91 15:31:54 -0500
From: Jay Sage <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Need Kaypro 2 Boot Disks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Marc Lewis asked for the missing files for his Kaypro 2.  I tried to reply
to him directly, but his address was longer than my mailer would accept (!),
so I am replying here.

   I have some kind of Kaypro IV or 2 and certainly have access to all kinds
of Kaypro computers.  If you send me blank, formatted, labeled diskettes with
a return mailer (self-addressed) with postage, I can copy the files onto the
diskettes and send them back.  Be sure to include a note reminding me of what
I promised to send you, as I do so much of this that I often forget the
details by the time disks arrive."

-- Jay Sage
   1435 Centre Street
   Newton Centre, MA 02159-2469

P.S. Oops, just remembered that one of the programs you are missing is the
FORMAT program.  In that case, just send blank disks, and remind me of that
so I don't try to write to them without formatting them first.


------------------------------

Date: 3 Mar 91 05:04:06 GMT
From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!urchin!f601.n106.z1.fidonet.org![e-mail]  (CHARLES COTHAM)
Subject: Re: Osborne 1 diskdrives. Help needed.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Jonas,

   I don't know if it would help, but I have a couple of articles on disk
drive alignment for the Osborne 1. I would be glad to make a copy and
send to you if you will leave me an address.

                          Charles Cotham
                          2205 Lilac St.
                          Nederland, Texas
                                      77627

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Date: Wed,  6 Mar 91 09:15:33 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #51
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INFO-CPM Digest             Wed,  6 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   51

Today's Topics:
                           Code Works - Q/C
                       CPM Emulator for an AT?
                    Intersystems DPS-1's for sale
           Re: Accelerated 6502s and Apple CP/M (Applicard)
                    Re: Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
                Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
                     Re: Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
                  ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 5 Mar 91 17:52:30 GMT
From: magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!darth![e-mail]  (Davey Jones)
Subject: Code Works - Q/C
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Does anyone have information on The Code Works.  They produced the Q/C
compiler for Z80 based CP/M systems.  Are they still in business?  Is it
still possible to get the Q/C compiler?

Thanks

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Date: 5 Mar 91 03:11:34 GMT
From: ucivax!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hplsla![e-mail]  (Marshall Lollis)
Subject: CPM Emulator for an AT?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

You may find this an incredibly foolish question, but is there a CPM
emulator I can run on my AT? The reason I ask is because of a family
expense program that we have had from when we were running a z-card in
our Apple.........many years ago. I guess I would assume that any
emulator available would be in the form of software.

Please don't make too much fun of me. I had to ask!

*Marshall*


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Date: 6 Mar 91 00:51:47 GMT
From: ns-mx!shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu![e-mail]  (James Roger Black)
Subject: Intersystems DPS-1's for sale
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have two Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1 computers for sale.  These are
high-quality S-100 CP/M systems with 20-slot motherboard, 25-amp
power supply, traditional front panel (lots of lights and switches)
and a chassis strong enough to jump up and down on.

Each one has a Z-80 CPU, 64K RAM, dual SSDD 8-inch floppies with
controllers, and all that good stuff.  There are also two serial cards,
a modem card, a 2708/2716 EPROM programmer, an S-100 extender card with
logic probe, a sound-effects board, etc.

Software:  CP/M; Microsoft M80 Macro Assembler; WordStar; Vedit; DRI Tex
word processor; ZDM debugger; D80 disassembler; Forth; DRI PL/I; Ithaca
Pascal/Z; Microsoft Basic; lots of other stuff.

All software is licensed, original disks and manuals, etc.  All hardware
includes schematics and manuals.  There are some books and magazines, too.

Both units were working when decommissioned.  One needs a serial card, but
the other has an extra, so it balances out.  Between the two of them, you
should have a complete computer and spare parts till doomsday.

No reasonable offer refused; you pay shipping.  Send email if interested.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Roger Black                                   [e-mail]
 Weeg Computing Center                                  The University of Iowa

                    Disclaimer:  I speak for nobody but myself.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Date: 5 Mar 91 04:22:14 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!uop!quack![e-mail]  (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: Accelerated 6502s and Apple CP/M (Applicard)
Message-ID: <kNRjIh/@quack.sac.ca.us>

[e-mail] (David Douthitt) writes:

>As an aside, can someone tell me if there are any other hard drives
>you can use with a PCPI card besides the Sider?  Ones that work with
>Prodos?

I wrote a pair of drivers that allowed you to use ProDOS devices under
PCPI. One was for floppies and handled drives up to 2 MB, the other
was for hard disks and allowed up to 8 MB, but it had to be
non-removable (or you would have to make VERY sure to warm-boot
if you swapped. Bye bye data otherwise).

The trouble is that the vectors had to be sized in advance, so each
potential drive took up a k or so of your TPA.

All of the above is from memory. I could dig them up, but I'd rather
not have to. They're widespread, I would hope. :-/

>What about SCSI?

They are ProDOS devices, no?

--
Nick Sayer              | Think of me as a recombinant    | RIP: Mel Blanc
[e-mail] | Simpson: Homer's looks, Lisa's  |   1908-1989
N6QQQ  [44.2.1.17]      | brains, Bart's manners, and     |  May he never
209-952-5347 (Telebit)  | Maggie's appetite for TV.  --Me |  be silenced.

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Date: 5 Mar 91 21:03:35 GMT
From: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!iboga![e-mail]  (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Compilers for NECAPC CPM86
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Bob Perigo) writes:

>Would like to breath some new life into a pair of old necAPCs.  That's those
>combination cpm86/msdos beasts with the 8" disks.  Have you seen a PD release
>of a c86 or fortran86 configured for it?
*----
I think C86 is a commercial compiler, so you won't find a "free" version.  However
DeSmet C is now shareware or free, and it's excellent.

Since the APC runs MS-DOS 2.11, virtually ANY generic compiler will work.  I
still use the latest version of Microsoft C to generate code for the NEC APC.

--
    Mike Berger
    Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
    AT&TNET     217-244-6067
    Internet    [e-mail]

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Date: 5 Mar 91 14:56:49 GMT
From: milton!ogicse!pdxgate!parsely!percy!qiclab!techbook![e-mail]  (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: Re: Kermit terminal emulation for CP/M
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
>>
>> Also, has anyone tried the MS/DOS CP/M emulators on an Apple PC Transporter?
>
>As far as the PCT is concerned, it would STILL be too slow
>because the PCT uses a 10 MHz V20 which makes the Apple a turbo
>XT.  You could run Z80MU, but your effective speed would be
>around 500kHz to 1MHz, so you'd be better off using a 386SX.  And
>anything that takes advantage of the V20's hardware emulation
>will let you use 8080/8085 stuff ONLY, which I think is too
>limited, and what's worse is that I've heard is that the hardware
>emulation is buggy.

  z80mu on a 20mhz 286 gives you about a 2.5 mhz z80, which is not badd
all things considered.

  you would be surprised at how much cp/m stuff is written for the 8080/8085
instruction set.  some z80 machines had problems with the extra z80 registers
because the bios would assume the machine was going to be used like
an 8080.

  running z80mu on a machine like a 386sx is rather pointless, especially
if you end up purchasing the machine solely to run cp/m stuff.  even though
i have z80mu, i rarely use it because it is not enough like a cp/m environment
just when you find that you need it to be.   not to mention i have a lot of
cp/m machine specific programs.

  if you want a solution to your problem, your best bet would be to spend
$50 to $100 or so and buy a used cp/m machine.  then you can get one with
a real serial port, that won't drop chars even at 9600 baud.

  'bag' solutions like a cp/m card in an apple are really not great solutions
because you are still stuck with a 'funny' disk format and strange machine
anomolies.  (like slow serial ports, wierd video mapping, etc. etc.)


--
[e-mail] - but don't quote me on that....

American Oil Company motto - Bend over, We'll pump!!!

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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1991 07:06:23 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Lower Price/Wordstar 4.0
Message-ID: <" 6-Mar-91 10:06:23 EST".*[e-mail]>

> | Doug, I am interested in your copy of Wordstar 4.0.
> |
> |                 ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

> No doubt.  Do the WordStar people know of your interest?

As long as it is a legal copy (and it sounded that way), what do they care?

                ~ Mike

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Date: 5 Mar 91 21:04:01 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!nowster![e-mail]  (Paul Martin)
Subject: ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Has anyone out there got a working ZMP 1.5 overlay for use with a
Televideo 803? (I have overlays for other Televideos, but the 803
hardware is different.)

If you do, could you mail me that you have it, and not send it
until requested?

I hear rumours that Ron Murray's being given encouragement to
speed up sections of ZMP's C code, and may be producing a new
version some time soon. Is there any basis to this?

--
Paul Martin     ..!uunet!tharr!pm.nowster | CP/M systems never die. They
[e-mail]  ([e-mail]) | just get more BIOSed with age.

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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #52
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INFO-CPM Digest             Thu,  7 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   52

Today's Topics:
                         Re: Code Works - Q/C
                     Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
    Re: FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
                     Re: Kaypro 4 and hard disks
                Re: ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
                   Wanted: Shugart SA860 drive info
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Date: 6 Mar 91 09:15:54 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Code Works - Q/C
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Davey Jones) writes:

>
> Does anyone have information on The Code Works.  They produced the Q/C
> compiler for Z80 based CP/M systems.  Are they still in business?  Is it
> still possible to get the Q/C compiler?
>
> Thanks

Perhaps Doug Braun could elucidate on the subject because his UZI
package is written using Code Works' Q/C compiler.  Is it even
compilable under Aztec C, the Toolworks C/80 compiler, BDS-C, or
Mix C?  I would very much like to know.  Because if it's Q/C
specific and you cannot legally get the Code Works' compiler, I
will be extremely disappointed.

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Date: 7 Mar 91 08:53:06 GMT
From: pacbell.com!pacbell!pbhyf![e-mail]  (Brian Holliday)
Subject: Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Marshall Lollis)
writes:
>You may find this an incredibly foolish question, but is there a CPM
>emulator I can run on my AT? The reason I ask is because of a family
>expense program that we have had from when we were running a z-card in
>our Apple.........many years ago. I guess I would assume that any
>emulator available would be in the form of software.

Yes, there are a few CP/M emulators in software.  I've used Joan Riff's
Z80MU (which emulates a Z80), and also one that came from Japan (which
emulates an 8080).  These were interesting, but not too useful to me.  The
emulator from Japan can be ordered through the C Users Journal magazine, for
$8.  It is floppy #284 -- "portable 8080 emulator" -- and it comes with C
source code.  I only got it partially working before I gave up.  Expect to
do some debugging if you get this.  Joan Riff's Z80MU works better, and is
public domain, but it is slow -- as all CP/M emulators in software will be.
Z80MU should be available in many MSDOS software collections.  (I heard that
a later version of Z80MU is being sold as a real, supported product.  If you
want the freebie, look for the "original" Z80MU.)

If you're serious about running CP/M under MSDOS, consider purchasing the
UniDOS Z80 coprocessor board.  But you may also have problems getting your PC
to read your old Apple floppies.  In the UniDOS documentation, it says:

   If your CP/M computer happens to be an Apple computer with a CP/M card,
   you should purchase MatchPoint-PC.  MatchPoint-PC will allow your PC
   compatible computer to read Apple II diskettes directly.  The standard
   disk controller in your PC is not capable of reading or writing Apple
   diskettes.

My old CP/M computer is a Kaypro, so I can't vouch for MatchPoint-PC.
I can vouch for the UniDOS Z80 coprocessor board.  I bought it for $170 in
August 1990, and it does everything I wanted it to do.  It is also quite
fast -- it runs at 8 Mhz with no wait states.

MatchPoint-PC and the UniDOS board are made by:

   Micro Solutions, Inc.
   132 West Lincoln Highway
   DeKalb, Illinois 60115
   [phone]

And I purchased UniDOS from:

   Emerald Microware
   12470 S.W. First St.
   P.O. Box 1726
   Beaverton, Oregon 97075
   (sorry, don't know the phone #)

Brian Holliday (...!pacbell!pbhyf!blholli)

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Date: 5 Mar 91 22:44:41 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!urchin![e-mail]  (Darrell Pittman)
Subject: Re: FREE ALTOS Z80:  208K RAM, 40MB HD, TAPE DRIVE, CRT, ETC.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  I can't come to Santa Barbara to pick it up (I'm in Texas), but I
can give it a good home if you can box it up and I'll pay the shipping.
  Let me know via e-mail at "[e-mail]".
  Regards... Darrell Pittman

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Date: 7 Mar 91 19:25:04 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 4 and hard disks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (William L. Hadley) writes:
>
>Hello all!  I have some questions about the Kaypro 4 and hard disks.
>
>1) Is it possible to connect a hard disk to a Kaypro 4?
Yes, but...

>If yes...
>2) Does it require a special type of hard disk, or will a standard IBM
>drive work?

An ST-506 type interface is required.

>3) Does it require a special disk controller cable?

Yes, and an interface card and controller, also.  What you will need in
the hardware and software line can be obtained from:
              Emerald Microware
              P.O. Box 1726
              Beaverton OR 97075
              503/641-8088    (talk to Brian)
They sell a kit that includes the interface card, controller, and
software (you provide the drive) for $245 approximately.  The drive can
be up to 40 mb.

To make the drive cold bootable, you will need to purchase and install a
new ROM.  Emerald sells the KayPLUS ROM for $69.95, or you can get the
well known Advent TurboROM for about $35 from Chuck Stafford,
916/483-0312.  The ROMs offer some other advantages also.

You WILL want to install a fan in the box!

>4) Do I need special software to format it?  If yes, then where can I get the
>software (I haven't looked too closely at the CPM archives on Simtel yet)?

Yes.  Obtainable from the same source that you got some of the other
things that you are going to need to buy.  See above.

>5) Is there a limitation to the size of the hard disk?

That depends upon just how much money you want to spend.

>6) Can the harddisk be bootable?

See above.

>7) Will I have to give up one of the floppy drives?
>
Not necessarily, if you install a half high drive.  Definitely, with a
full height.


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Date: 7 Mar 91 01:42:08 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vax7![e-mail]  (Ron Murray)
Subject: Re: ZMP 1.5 Overlay for Televideo 803
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Paul Martin) writes:
>
> I hear rumours that Ron Murray's being given encouragement to
> speed up sections of ZMP's C code, and may be producing a new
> version some time soon. Is there any basis to this?
>

   Don't know about speeding it up: I have considered recoding the terminal
loop in assembler, but nothing definite yet. I am considering a VT-10*
emulation (and the fast loop would probably be necessary for this. Perhaps
Kermit as well, although I suspect most sites will have SZ/RZ by now.
   I'll probably get around to all this in a month or so, as soon as the
weather gets cooler (so I can get into the computer room again), and once
I fix my CP/M computer (which has a !@#$%^^&*&*&^ intermittent fault).

....Ron

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Date: 6 Mar 91 17:50:27 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!mips!twg.com![e-mail]  (Frank McConnell)
Subject: Wanted: Shugart SA860 drive info
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I picked up a few SA860 drives as spares a while back; these are
half-height 8" drives, and as such don't have the nice hefty 110 VAC
motors found in canonical full-height drives.  Instead, these drives
look much like what PC 5.25" half-heights aspire to be when they
grow up, with a bigger version of the "flat" spindle motor and a
quarter-turn handle to "close" the drive.

I now would like to use these to replace a pair of SA850 full-height
drives.  The problem is, these drives have a single power connector
that is different from either of the two on the 850s, and of course
I have no service or installation manual for the 860s :-(.

Does anyone out there have info on what the power connector expects?
Or, perhaps, pointers on where I could get the documentation for the
drives?  (Or even tales of terror about the troubles I'm asking for!)

Feel free to mail me; I'll summarize mailed responses.

Thanks in advance!

-Frank McConnell "I want my MPE"  E-mail: <[e-mail]> Tel: [phone]

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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 91 14:58:50 -0500
From: [e-mail] (William L. Hadley)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello all!  I have some questions about the Kaypro 4 and hard disks.

1) Is it possible to connect a hard disk to a Kaypro 4?
If yes...
2) Does it require a special type of hard disk, or will a standard IBM
drive work?
3) Does it require a special disk controller cable?
4) Do I need special software to format it?  If yes, then where can I get the
software (I haven't looked too closely at the CPM archives on Simtel yet)?
5) Is there a limitation to the size of the hard disk?
6) Can the harddisk be bootable?
7) Will I have to give up one of the floppy drives?

Thanks in advance!
Bill Hadley
[e-mail]

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INFO-CPM Digest             Sat,  9 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   53

Today's Topics:
                         RE:  CODE WORKS Q/C
                           ROM Chip Carrier
                             Turbo Pascal
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Thu, 07 Mar 91  20:48:13 EST
From: "Craig Spirka" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:  CODE WORKS Q/C
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I know the owner-founder-president of the Code Works -- if this is the same
Code Works you have in mind.  His name is Ron Jeffries, and he is a former
colleague of mine.  Now, you may reach him through Com Design in Santa
Barbara: [phone].


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Date: 9 Mar 91 06:14:29 GMT
From: van-bc!cynic![e-mail]  (Phillip Evans)
Subject: ROM Chip Carrier
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello CPM world.  I want some ROM chip carriers.  These gizmos (a pair of
'em) came in the PX-* I got at an auction.  A 28-pin ROM or EPROM chip
fits in it, and the bottoms of the pins get bent under and the chip is
fixed.  The carrier has a kind of tiny handle on each end and what you do
is grab it by those and put it in an extra-big socket.  The whole
arrangement lets you change program ROM chips without fuss or static
damage.

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET MORE CARRIERS?

If so thanks muchly...

Signature: __________________X________________ <-- my mark

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Date: 8 Mar 91 21:31:30 GMT
From: aurs01![e-mail]  (J. Luce)
Subject: Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Where can anyone get a copy of Turbo Pascal for CP/M? My S-100 system
uses 8" disks on top of that :)

I suppose I could read it off a Kaypro 5.25 using 22DISK and upload it
to my machine, but a real diskette would be nicer.


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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon, 11 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   54

Today's Topics:
                   About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT
                         Shugart 801 (2 msgs)
                        Small Comm Program(s)
                           VT100 emulation
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sun, 10 Mar 91 12:09:20 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT

Hello|

   I've juste bought MEDIA-MASTER v5.01 which now include a CP/M-Z80
software emulator... for PC XT or AT...
   It emulator either Z80, 8080 (software), and for which who have a
NEC V20 instead of a intel processor: 8080 (hardware)... because this chip
has a 8080 compatibility mode. (Does someone know how to enter in this mode?)
I've not fully tested yet but it speed... For example i've done in Z80 a loop
which take exactly 10 seconds on a Z80 at 4Mhz with no INT nor NMI...
On a PC XT (8088 at 4,77Mhz) with Z80MU It was taken: 147secondes, now with
ZPEM (MM v5.01) it takes only: 58secondes (for information on a commodore 128
in CP/M mode it takes 60secondes|||) I've also done the test on a 386sx-20
with ZPEM: only 7 secondes (so it's faster than a Z80 a 4Mhz|||)
   This emulator permit to acces I/O port... To acces RS232C for example (|)
And they have add a new Bdos fonction which permit to call any PC's bios fnct
   But it simply emulator a CPM22 (or perhaps a ZCPR because of the LIST cmd?)
           But it exist... Try it |       Bye| Alex.   <MONTARON@FRP8V11>

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Date: 10 Mar 91 18:05:53 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: Shugart 801
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I got a Sol-20 Terminal Computer a few months ago
    but only started playing with it this weekend. It's a 8080
    based machine with a S100 buss. It came with 3 boards:
    32K SRAM, 16KSRAM, and a DiskJockey 2D/B disk controller.
    It also came with a box of 8" disks.

    Anyways, I hooked it all up and after a few hours of the
    good'old guessing at DIP switches I got the darn thing
    to boot CP/M 2.2! [wheeee ;-)]

    That's all fine but there is a catch. This system came with
    2 8" drives. Drive A (bootable) works fine but the analog
    controller on drive B does not. That means that I can format
    a disk (I have) and I can SYSGEN it (have too) but I can NOT
    copy anything without drive B :-(

    SO!

    Anyone have a 801 (SSDD 8") drive lying around? I saw many
    at the "swapfest" but, at the time, I did not have this
    computer. My offer:

    $5 + shipping if you have just the board (under the drive)
    $25 + shipping for the whole drive (drive+board+case+ps)

    Next swapfest is in April so if noone gives any decent offers,
    I can wait :-(

    Please send e-mail with offer.

    Take care.
--
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Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

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Date: 11 Mar 91 02:04:26 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: Shugart 801
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I got a Sol-20 Terminal Computer a few months ago
    but only started playing with it this weekend. It's a 8080
    based machine with a S100 buss. It came with 3 boards:
    32K SRAM, 16KSRAM, and a DiskJockey 2D/B disk controller.
    It also came with a box of 8" disks.

    Anyways, I hooked it all up and after a few hours of the
    good'old guessing at DIP switches I got the darn thing
    to boot CP/M 2.2! [wheeee ;-)]

    That's all fine but there is a catch. This system came with
    2 8" drives. Drive A (bootable) works fine but the analog
    controller on drive B does not. That means that I can format
    a disk (I have) and I can SYSGEN it (have too) but I can NOT
    copy anything without drive B :-(

    SO!

    Anyone have a 801 (SSDD 8") drive lying around? I saw many
    at the "swapfest" but, at the time, I did not have this
    computer. My offer:

    $5 + shipping if you have just the board (under the drive)
    $25 + shipping for the whole drive (drive+board+case+ps)

    Next swapfest is in April so if noone gives any decent offers,
    I can wait :-(

    Please send e-mail with offer.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

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Date: 10 Mar 91 20:04:33 GMT
From: van-bc!cynic![e-mail]  (Phillip Evans)
Subject: Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Hello everyone _ I want to know the smalles comm programs for CP/M.  All
I need are terminal capabilities, ASCII capture, and Xmodem.  The best
one will be shoehorned into 63K of EPROM which is why size is a premium.

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Date: Sun, 10 Mar 91 20:59:24 IST
From: "Jacques J. Goldberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: VT100 emulation

Since this issue comes out periodically:

1-QTERM  by David Goodeneough works great, in <CPM.QTERM>QTERM42G.LBR
2-What it does not have is a built-in keyboard simulation, but everything
  has been provided to implement it very easily.
3-I have made a patch for keyboard emulation with a plain (no PF keys)
  keyboard.
4-Who knows David's new e-mail address so I can send him that patch, in
  case there is any general interest in it?

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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon, 11 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   55

Today's Topics:
               Apple 3.5" floppy driver for Applicard?
                  DTC900 hard drive controller help
                     Match-Point Disk Controller
                    Obvious Solution the Motor On
                         Re: VT100 emulation
                             Shugart 801
                             Wordstar 4.0
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 08:40:57 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Simplicitas gratia simplicitatis)
Subject: Apple 3.5" floppy driver for Applicard?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Been away from CP/M for about a year after I sold my Apple //e.

I just put my Applicard into an Apple IIGS, and now that I have 3.5"
floppies I'd like to use them.  I don't have any uncompression or
unsqueezing utilities, and I've now got only a single 5.25" drive.  Can
anyone provide a copy of a 3.5" Applicard driver on a 5.25" floppy?

Thanks.

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Date: 11 Mar 91 21:30:00 EDT
From: "OAK::SNIPEHUNT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DTC900 hard drive controller help

Greetings!  I have a monstrous old hard disk system (8", 40mb fixed and
10mb removable) hooked to my LB+ via a DTC900 nearly-SCSI controller.
The fool thing didn't survive the last move, and now I'm trying to get
it working again.  It's a nightmare of first-generation TTL gates.

If anyone out in netland has full schematics for this monster, or better
yet, a spare that they'd be willing to part with cheap (summer tuition is
coming up :-) ), I'd love to hear from you.  DTC doesn't even want to
admit they ever made the thing in the first place, and the documentation
I have doesn't cover circuits or operation at all.  Can someone bail me
out?

(Just between thee and me, I'd *much* rather ditch it and get a nice,
quiet 3-1/2er in the 40mb range, but the wife'd pitch a fit if I did :-) )

Bruce H. McIntosh
[e-mail]   Go Gators!
[e-mail]


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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 12:11:53 -0500
From: Jay Sage <[e-mail]>
Subject: Match-Point Disk Controller
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

   I have been using the Match-Point disk controller and software from
MicroSolutions for several years, and it has worked flawlessly.  I regularly
read, write, and format Apple CP/M true soft-sector and NorthStar hard-sector
diskettes.  For some reason, this package does not support the Heath hard-
sectored format.  I don't know why.


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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 09:39:24 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Obvious Solution the Motor On
Message-ID: <"11-Mar-91 12:39:24 EST".*[e-mail]>

Forget the AND gate to generate Motor On, forget connecting Motor On to Ground,
just forget all that sort of stuff.  The solution was so obvious that I am
surprised that I and others didn't think of it first.

I would have written this sooner, but due to the massive ice storm we had a
week ago, I only made it into work two days last week, and those were very busy
days.

Back Track:

This has to do with replacing 8 inch drives with 5.25 or 3.5 inch high density
drives.  The problem was that an 8" interface does not supply the Motor On
signal, and that many of the new high density drives do not provide a jumper to
tie the Drive select signal to Motor On.

I had suggested using an AND gate to provide the signal.  Zoltan Fekete had
suggested that the signal just be grounded.  Grounding the signal is not good,
since as long as a floppy has been inserted, the heads will be loaded and the
drive will spin.  As I prepared to make a new interface board (this one with
room to add an AND gate chip), I realized that even with this addition, both
drives will spin if each has a floppy, and either one is selected.

Then the solution this me.  Use an IBM type twisted cable!!!  This way, the
Drive Select signal could be tied directly to that drives Motor On, and nothing
else was needed (and you can buy them for about the same cost as it would take
to make one).  Since I had a spare twisted cable lying around, I modified my
old interface board, and it worked fine.  There is still a problem with drive
ready, but I'll get to that later.

In the IBM twisted cable, all wires go directly to the first drive connector
(drive B) and then wires 10 through 15 are twisted and installed backwards for
the second drive connector (drive A).  The ground wires all come out correct,
so this results in swapping positions for DS1/Motor ON and DS2/DS3.

On your interface board, connect the controllers Drive Select 1 signal to the
Floppy Interfaces Drive Select 1 (Motor On for Drive A) and Drive Select 3
(Drive Select 2 for Drive A).  The controllers Drive Select 2 still connects to
the floppy Interfaces Drive Select 2, and also to Motor On.

Both A and B drives should now be configured as Drive B, because of the twist.
Drive A goes on the end of the cable, after the twist.  The termination
resistor should now be in drive A, rather than Drive B, because A is at the end
of the cable.

Have an controller that supports 4 drives?  No problem.  Add a second 34 pin
header to your interface board, and connect as above, substituting the
controllers Drive Select 3 and Drive Select 4 signals for Selects 1 and 2.
Again, Drives C and D must be configured as Drive B, and a termination resistor
should be in drive C (which goes at the end of the cable).

Hmmm, for those who might have been lost by my "Interface board", you need a
way to connect the signals coming from the 8" drive controller to the 5.25 (or
3.5) inch drives.  I took the controllers signals directly using a 34 wire
ribbon cable.  That connects to a 34 pin wire wrap header on my Interface
board.  There is a second 34 pin wire wrap header on the interface board, and
that is for connecting to the floppies themselves.  Using a wire wrap tool, I
then connected all the interface signals to their proper pins on both headers.

Last, I mentioned a Drive Ready problem.  On my Chinon 1.2Mb drives, there was
a jumper to select between the Disk Change Function and Drive Ready on pin 34
of the floppy.  I set it for Drive Ready .... and it almost worked.  The signal
*IS* compatible with the 8" drive ready signal.  The problem is that my
computer times out before the drive is ready and gives me an error.  Since the
drive is still spinning (the drive spins of about 10 Seconds after it is
de-selected, in case you want to use it again), if I try the command again,
everything works fine.

Still it's a pain to boot twice, or type DIR, wait then tell it to retry.

The obvious solution would be to tie the controllers drive ready signal to
ground.  As Zoltan Fekete pointed out, this will probably work fine for reading
the drive, but could cause problems when trying to write to it.  I have had no
problems writing to the drive .... yet.  But I have not used the system enough
to know if I can get away with this or not.

The other solution of course, would be to modify the BIOS (I think) of the
computer so that it takes longer for the error time out when spinning the drive
up.  Sigh!

I assume that most of you who have done this conversion have just tied Drive
Ready to ground?  If so, how well has it worked?

                ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

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Date: 11 Mar 91 18:05:04 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] ("Jacques J. Goldberg") writes:
>4-Who knows David's new e-mail address so I can send him that patch, in
>  case there is any general interest in it?

The last address that I have for David is !wet!pallio!dg and is a couple of
months old.  You might try it, Jacques.

                                                 - don

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Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
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Date: 11 Mar 91 12:31:00 GMT
From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!csn!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (Fred Scacchitti)
Subject: Shugart 801
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I've got an 801 available at the price you asked (25 + shipping)-
message me or call (716) 482 -7159 if you're still interested. After
6:00 PM.

Fred


--
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UUCP: {smart-host}!ur-valhalla!rochgte!242!Fred.Scacchitti
INTERNET: [e-mail]

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Date: 11 Mar 91 01:33:31 GMT
From: magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!urchin![e-mail]  (Doug Platt)
Subject: Wordstar 4.0
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


Hello Roger

Have heard nothing back from you Re Wordstar 4.0

Have you disappeared?


                  Doug


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INFO-CPM Digest             Thu, 14 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   56

Today's Topics:
                           Kaypro 10 backup
                           RDCBM.COM author
                         Re: Kaypro 10 backup
                         Re: RDCBM.COM author
                      Re: Small Comm Program(s)
                      S100 cage wanted (2 msgs)
               wordstar! wanted, Attention Doug Platt!
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 13 Mar 91 19:51:54 GMT
From: ogicse!adaptive!asi.com![e-mail]  (Casey Bahr)
Subject: Kaypro 10 backup
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Greetings CP/M'rs.  I hope this is the appropriate place to ask these questions.
It was the only CP/M newsgroup I could find. We must be a dying breed :)

I just became the proud owner of a Kaypro 10, and I'm wondering if anyone has
any ideas about methods or devices I could use to regularly backup the 10M
hard drive?  It seems prudent especially in light of the firm warnings to use
"safety" before turning off the power.  I'm sure I'll forget that more than
once or have a power outage while running sometime and I'd like to be able
to restore things.  I hope I don't have to transfer everything through the
floppy drive.

Also, while I'm here, does anyone know of a source for a PD C compiler for this
beastie?

Thanks,

Casey Bahr
[e-mail] | ogicse!adaptive!casey | uunet!adaptive!casey
Adaptive Solutions, Inc., 1400 NW Compton Dr. Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006
VOICE: [phone] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ FAX: [phone]

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Date: 12 Mar 91 06:37:09 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu![e-mail]  (Robert Andrew Knop)
Subject: RDCBM.COM author
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Does anybody know a current E-mail address for the author of the CP/M program
RDCBM.COM, which reads Commodore disks from the C128's CP/M mode?  I would be
interested in getting ahold of the source code for that program.  I tried the
address given by the program, ihp4!killer!sentinel, but that didn't seem to
work.

Thanks,

-Rob Knop

------------------------------

Date: 14 Mar 91 15:48:09 GMT
From: [e-mail]  (Justin Harlow)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 10 backup
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Casey Bahr) writes:
>
>Also, while I'm here, does anyone know of a source for a PD C compiler for this
>beastie?
>
There used to be a tom of PD stuff out there, but the sources have
pretty well dried up. I do have a copy of "Small C" for my Kaypro-10,
It's a real <PIG> though; slow, limited syntax, no include function
(recompile stdio.h every time, for instance....), and worse. I'll send
you a copy if I haven't thoroughly discouraged you yet.

J. E. Harlow
Reply to [e-mail], please

--
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Internet:    [e-mail]
UUCP:        mcnc!duke!jeh

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Date: 14 Mar 91 00:37:45 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!vax7![e-mail]  (Ron Murray)
Subject: Re: RDCBM.COM author
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Robert Andrew Knop) writes:
> Does anybody know a current E-mail address for the author of the CP/M program
> RDCBM.COM, which reads Commodore disks from the C128's CP/M mode?  I would be
> interested in getting ahold of the source code for that program.  I tried the
> address given by the program, ihp4!killer!sentinel, but that didn't seem to
> work.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rob Knop

   Think I wrote one in Turbo Pascal about 3 years ago, but I can't remember
the details (I'm only the one who wrote it ...). I will look.

....Ron
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Date: 12 Mar 91 17:27:59 GMT
From: math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!unido!horga!veeble![e-mail]  (Paul Lenz)
Subject: Re: Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Phillip Evans) writes:
>Hello everyone _ I want to know the smalles comm programs for CP/M.  All
>I need are terminal capabilities, ASCII capture, and Xmodem.  The best
>one will be shoehorned into 63K of EPROM which is why size is a premium.


My terminal program is SMODEM.COM with Xmodem (CRC).
I have the source code, and you can delete everything you don't need.

Proppi


[e-mail]  ...!unido!horga!veeble!proppi
Paul Lenz    Friesenstrasse 22    D-3000 Hannover 1
=--> Remember: Rock'n'Roll and CP/M never die! <--=

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Date: 12 Mar 91 11:47:03 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: S100 cage wanted
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I'm looking for a nice and sturdy S100 card cage.

    WHAT I WANT:

    1) 8 to 21 slots
    2) not too heavy (ie. UPS shippable :-)
    3) card guides (plastic - preferably anti-static)
    4) I would prefer a wire-wrapped backplane
    5) good quality
    6) cost below $50.00 obo

    WHAT I DON'T WANT BUT CAN LIVE WITH:

    1) power supply (I have a nice 1,200W, already)
    2) sheet-metal cage (weight considerations)

    I think that's about it. I plan to use this for a non-S100
    project (custom wire-wrap). I'll pay shipping (providing it's
    rational :-) E-mail if you have something that fits the above
    description.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

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Date: 12 Mar 91 11:47:03 GMT
From: usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: S100 cage wanted
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I'm looking for a nice and sturdy S100 card cage.

    WHAT I WANT:

    1) 8 to 21 slots
    2) not too heavy (ie. UPS shippable :-)
    3) card guides (plastic - preferably anti-static)
    4) I would prefer a wire-wrapped backplane
    5) good quality
    6) cost below $50.00 obo

    WHAT I DON'T WANT BUT CAN LIVE WITH:

    1) power supply (I have a nice 1,200W, already)
    2) sheet-metal cage (weight considerations)

    I think that's about it. I plan to use this for a non-S100
    project (custom wire-wrap). I'll pay shipping (providing it's
    rational :-) E-mail if you have something that fits the above
    description.

    Take care.
--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

------------------------------

Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 07:56 EDT
From: Brainwave Surfer <[e-mail]>
Subject: wordstar! wanted, Attention Doug Platt!

Dear Doug,
  I'd like to buy your copy of WordStar.  Please get to me.

Jim Agnew

         /^^^\   \ /   Jim Agnew         [e-mail],
        /      >  ||   Neurosurgery,     [e-mail]
   /\_/     '   \  /   MCV-VCU           This tape will self destruct in
 /________________>    Richmond, Va      five seconds.  Good luck, Jim..."


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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 17:15:32 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #57
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INFO-CPM Digest             Sun, 17 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   57

Today's Topics:
             need disk expansion module for Xerox 820-II
                Need power supply for Osborne Exec...
                     Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
                         Re: Kaypro 10 backup
                         Re: VT100 emulation
                      Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 16 Mar 91 19:13:27 GMT
From: vax5.cit.cornell.edu![e-mail]  (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: need disk expansion module for Xerox 820-II
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

       I recently posted a similar message to misc.forsale.computers, but
I'll ask here too.
       Does anyone have a disk expansion module (DEM) for the Xerox 820-II
that they'd be willing to part with for a reasonable price? I'm looking to
expand my system a little bit, and need the flexibility of the hard drive
and 5.25" floppy that the DEM would allow me to use.
       Oh, I don't need the actual drives themselves really, just w/o the
drives, but I'll consider anything...so don't me off if you have a DEM but
don't want to part it out.
       Thanks.

--
       Andrew Orndorff
       CIT, Research & Analysis
       Cornell University
       Internet: [e-mail]
       Bitnet:   bqsy1@crnlvax5

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Date: 14 Mar 91 21:41:32 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu![e-mail]  (Jeff Schilling)
Subject: Need power supply for Osborne Exec...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Howdy,

I looking for a replacement power supply for an Osborne Executive.
It was made by Astec, Model #9355 65W with 5v@5a, +12v@1.5a, +12v@2.1a
and -12v@.25a.

While a direct replacement would be nice, any comparable ps with
equal or greater ratings would do, providing it fits in the case. (The
current one measures about 8x4x2 in.)

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thanx in advance.

-Jeff
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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| Internet: [e-mail]    George Washington University               |
| UUCP: ...!uunet!gwusun!jeff         Washington, DC  20009                |
| [phone]                                                            |
| System Programmer                                      |
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Date: 13 Mar 91 18:42:08 GMT
From: celit!fpssun![e-mail]  (Mike Northam ext 2651)
Subject: Re: CPM Emulator for an AT?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Holliday) writes:
|
| MatchPoint-PC and the UniDOS board are made by:
|
|    Micro Solutions, Inc.
|    132 West Lincoln Highway
|    DeKalb, Illinois 60115
|    [phone]
|
| And I purchased UniDOS from:
|
|    Emerald Microware
|    12470 S.W. First St.
|    P.O. Box 1726
|    Beaverton, Oregon 97075
|    (sorry, don't know the phone #)
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     [phone]  hope this helps



--
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[phone] x2651     {tektronix}!fpssun!mbn
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"Every now and then things become clear."  Jane Siberry, "The Walking"

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Date: 14 Mar 91 16:05:11 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: Kaypro 10 backup
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Casey Bahr) writes:
>I just became the proud owner of a Kaypro 10, and I'm wondering if anyone has
>any ideas about methods or devices I could use to regularly backup the 10M
>hard drive?  It seems prudent especially in light of the firm warnings to use
>"safety" before turning off the power.  I'm sure I'll forget that more than
>once or have a power outage while running sometime and I'd like to be able
>to restore things.  I hope I don't have to transfer everything through the
>floppy drive.
>
I wouldn't worry too much about using 'safety' unless you are in a big hurry
to shut down.  The K10 is set up such that when the '10 meg' LED is out, the
heads have been parked.  'Safety' simply does this before the time-out.

As regards backup, the floppy is the logical answer.  Sorry!

>Also, while I'm here, does anyone know of a source for a PD C compiler for this
>beastie?
>
Perhaps someone else can help you on that.


Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: 11 Mar 91 18:05:04 GMT
From: simasd!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] ("Jacques J. Goldberg") writes:
>4-Who knows David's new e-mail address so I can send him that patch, in
>  case there is any general interest in it?

The last address that I have for David is !wet!pallio!dg and is a couple of
months old.  You might try it, Jacques.

                                                 - don

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: 17 Mar 91 18:36:08 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!diku![e-mail]  (Klaus Ambrass)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Carol Coates) writes:


>    Greetings. I must have taken a mouthfull of that stupidity-potion.
>    That file, VT100KAY.AZM, is *ALREADY* uncompressed! Sorry about
>    that last post, folks.

Well, I had that prob myself once.
Way back then, it was due to the packing format applied by who ever packed
the file in the first place.
    I have an Amstrad cpc6128 and found that sometimes, when you CRUNCH a
file you can UNCR it, but not UNCRLZH it. I know it sounds loony, but the
two programs are in fact different.
    Maybe you have them same prob here. I dunno.
    You might try to TYPE the file and look at the displayed content. If
you get something containing a string of text that looks like a filename within
the 100 bytes or so, it probably IS still packed - one way or the other.
    Perhaps your file is simply renamed? (probably tried that already, but
don't blame me for telling you the obvious though :-))
    Oh, another stupid thing I got worked out only last month is that
SOME people (Amsters) really use the PC's LHARC packing format to crunch the
files they want packed. I found that a small tool - LHRD - can extract files
from PC's *.LZH to CP/M standard files.
    If you still have a troublesome file then Kill The Bastard!

>    It hit me, after I had a snack... lack of calories, I guess ;-)

We'll come back to that later.

>    Take care.

Now, make up your mind!

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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 18:15:16 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Mon, 18 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   58

Today's Topics:
                            Hard Disk Skew
                            K10 and a BBS?
                 Re: About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT
                    Re: Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
                      Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
                      Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 15 Mar 91 21:51:44 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!austex![e-mail]  (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: Hard Disk Skew
Message-ID: <XkeVy1w163w@austex>

I have a Kaypro 10 with a TurboROM and a Seagate ST-125 21 meg 3.5 in hd.
I used the Advent ADVFMT program to set up the drive, using a skew of 1,
the same, I suppose as an interleave of 1:1.  The drive access seems slow,
compared, for instance to another K-10 I have (my BBS) with a ST-251-1 5.25
in. 40 meg hd. Are there any programs out there that anyone knows of which
will give one information on the optimum skew for a particular machine/hd
combination.  The controller is the original Western Digital WD-1002.

                                    Lindsay Haisley


"Everything works if you let it!"
 --- Travis J. Redfish
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
uucp: austex![e-mail]
 BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)

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Date: 18 Mar 91 05:57:56 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: K10 and a BBS?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings.

    I'm sorry to say that my CP/M days are numbered - I'm finally
    getting a 486 (with a 200MB ide, SVGA, etc :-) and I have
    to make up my mind on what to do with my Kaypro 10 :-(

    I can do any of the following (or you can suggest something
    else):

    1) I am considering getting a TurboROM (I know, I know... I've
    been saying this for a while.. ;-) since I already have a 30MB
    and the standard 10MB drive (40MB total) and run a BBS. We have
    a local BBS that has some CP/M stuff - something like 600K -
    not much, really. I plan to fill up the drives with stuff from
    simtel - I already have all of the Kaypro and ZCPR 3.3 stuff :-)

    I have a nice ZCPR 3.3 setup and people have told me that it
    will be much easier to run a BBS on my setup that on stock
    CP/M 2.2 (anyone comment?) I just got the hang of zex and the
    wheel "business"... Anyways, anyone can recomment a decent BBS
    package? Space is not a problem but I would like the system to
    be "nice" to both the people who are seasoned CP/M users and to
    those who just got a CP/M machine for $25 :-) Anyone?

    2) Sell my K10 as it is - I'm thinking against this since I'm
    in the local computer club and there aren't that many CP/M people
    in the club (if I withdraw, there will be 2 :-) so I might just
    keep it to keep the group "reasonably" alive...

    3) Trash the K10 motherboard and put in a passive backplane
    with a CPU (IBM-on-a-board) card and a HD and FD controller.
    That way I have a portable PC... the floppy drive is IBM
    compatible, so is the HD, and I think I can get the display to
    work with a MDA card (if not, I can always get a CRT that fits
    and DOES work with MDA). If that's the case, the MB is up for
    grabs :-)

    4) Sell my K10 on the net :-(

    I'm really interested in #1 - make a BBS out of it. I already put
    2 more 3 1/4" fans so I don't think 24H operation will hurt it.
    All I need now is the software. I'm open to suggestion.

    Take care. Please use e-mail when replying.

    P.S. I'll take a look at the simtel BBS stuff tonight and report
    on it's performance this week.. (well, _next_ week)

--
_______________________________________________________________________________
"The Force will be with you, always." It _is_ with me and has been for 11 years
Filip Gieszczykiewicz  "... a Jedi does it with a mind trick... " ;-)
FMGST@PITTVMS  or  [e-mail] "My ideas. ALL MINE!!"

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Date: 15 Mar 91 21:20:35 GMT
From: pilchuck!dataio!fnx![e-mail]  (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Subject: Re: About CP/M-80 emulator on PC AT
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
>Hello|
>
>   I've juste bought MEDIA-MASTER v5.01 which now include a CP/M-Z80
>software emulator... for PC XT or AT...

I have Media Master.  It's a *great* product for copying various formats
of CPM disks to MessyDos, but it's emulation of CPM was pretty poor.  I
couldn't get Zork to give a nice looking display :-)

I found Z80MU to be a much better product for emulation.

>   It emulator either Z80, 8080 (software), and for which who have a
>NEC V20 instead of a intel processor: 8080 (hardware)... because this chip

The latest version (the commercial version) of Z80MU also supports this,
although Joan recommends against it due to some (unspecified) bugs in the
8080 emulation of the V20.

>   This emulator permit to acces I/O port... To acces RS232C for example (|)

The commercial version of Z80MU also allows access to I/O ports.

>And they have add a new Bdos fonction which permit to call any PC's bios fnct
>   But it simply emulator a CPM22 (or perhaps a ZCPR because of the LIST cmd?)
>           But it exist... Try it |       Bye| Alex.   <MONTARON@FRP8V11>


I have not gotten the auto-install version of ZCPR to work with Z80MU,
because there is no real BDOS, just a funny little 256 byte trap
area.  I suspect that Media Master would suffer from the same deficiency(?).

Regarding Z80MU:

It is an impressive product.  I tried the commercial version and did not
like it, for a very application specific reason.  I actually run Unix,
with an MSDOS emulator, running the CPM emulator.  The new commercial
version of Z80MU has gobs of screen output with formatting and cursor
addressing junk.  Probably looks great on a regular PC, but in this
particular configuration screen I/O is expensive.  My application is
a database written many years ago when I was running CPM exclusively and
is too expensive to port.  I find disk operations are considerably faster
than the old 4Mhz Z80 floppy only system.  CPU intensive stuff is
noticeably, but not objectionably, slower than the Z80.  (This is on
a 20Mhz 386, under VP/IX).  Screen I/O on the Z80MU freeware version is
slow, but not painfull.   Under the commercial version it is just
unacceptable (Note that this is probably not the case running under
standard MSDOS where direct screen I/O is really direct).

BUT:

I picked up a PC BLUE Z80 coprocessor for a good price, and when installed
in an otherwise worthless XT I found an excellent CPM machine.  Running
at a full 4Mhz, combined with the XT's fast disk I/O and 40MB of hard disk,
it makes an excellent solution.  This is not really CPM, in that you work
at the dos prompt, and all normal DOS tools are available (such as a
real 'make' which I never had under CPM, and real date stamping, etc),
while the CPM programs automatically run under the coprocessor and exit
back to dos when done.  The real disadvantage is that I have to work on the
XT machine instead of the much preferrable Unix machine.  Now if I could
just get a coprocessor that would run under Unix, I might have the
perfect setup :-)


--
del AKA Erik Lindberg                             uunet!pilchuck!fnx!del
                          Who is John Galt?

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Date: 14 Mar 91 17:53:31 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk![e-mail]  (Steven van Aardt)
Subject: Re: Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Does anyone out there, know how I can go about converting this CP/M '86 based
machine to run DOS ? I believe that someone has got DOS 2.1 running on it,
if so I'd be very grateful if you could reply.

Steven van Aardt.
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Date: 18 Mar 91 12:27:55 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Klaus Ambrass) writes:

> [e-mail] (Carol Coates) writes:
>
>
> >    Greetings. I must have taken a mouthfull of that stupidity-potion.
> >    That file, VT100KAY.AZM, is *ALREADY* uncompressed! Sorry about
> >    that last post, folks.
>
> Well, I had that prob myself once.
> Way back then, it was due to the packing format applied by who ever packed
> the file in the first place.
>     I have an Amstrad cpc6128 and found that sometimes, when you CRUNCH a
> file you can UNCR it, but not UNCRLZH it. I know it sounds loony, but the
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^ FALSE, FALSE, FALSE!!!!!!
> two programs are in fact different.


(flamethrower on maximum and enjoying it!!!!)


YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY DEAD WRONG!!!!!!


I USE UCRLZH.COM TO UNCRUNCH ?Z? FILES ALL THE TIME!!!!!!

(flamethrower brought down to minimum)

IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ME EAT MY WORDS, TRY IT!!!  I know I'm right
about this one.  I know because I've used it. Have YOU tried it?
UCRLZH11.COM _WILL_ uncrunch ?Q?, ?Z?, and ?Y? files.  What you
just said is one of the biggest crocks I've ever seen!

(flamethrower off)

Sorry about that.  I had to get you with this one with the
fullest possible permissible setting on my flamethrower without
cussing (if it WAS permitted, I would have said and/or called you
some real doozies).  Mainly because I use the program ALL THE
TIME and I _KNOW_ what it can do.

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Date: 14 Mar 91 13:22:35 GMT
From: mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk![e-mail]  (Steven van Aardt)
Subject: Sharp MZ5600 running DOS ?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  Steven van Aardt.


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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 19:46:34 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Tue, 19 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   59

Today's Topics:
            Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                  Re: Small Comm Program(s) (2 msgs)
                  Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems (2 msgs)
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Date: 19 Mar 91 05:47:26 GMT
From: waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
> [e-mail] (Klaus Ambrass) writes:
>
> > Well, I had that prob myself once.
> > Way back then, it was due to the packing format applied by who ever packed
> > the file in the first place.
> >     I have an Amstrad cpc6128 and found that sometimes, when you CRUNCH a
> > file you can UNCR it, but not UNCRLZH it. I know it sounds loony, but the
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^ FALSE, FALSE, FALSE!!!!!!
> > two programs are in fact different.
>
> (flamethrower on maximum and enjoying it!!!!)
>
> YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY DEAD WRONG!!!!!!
>
> I USE UCRLZH.COM TO UNCRUNCH ?Z? FILES ALL THE TIME!!!!!!
>
And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
no Bios source available to my knowledge).

FTR, I have successfully used UCRLZH to uncrunch files (.?Z?), so it
definately does work.  This was not off the floppy drives on the
Amstrad, however (this is where the bug is).

So the real answer is that you are both right....  :-)  Sortof.

> IF YOU WANT TO MAKE ME EAT MY WORDS, TRY IT!!!  I know I'm right
> about this one.  I know because I've used it. Have YOU tried it?
> UCRLZH11.COM _WILL_ uncrunch ?Q?, ?Z?, and ?Y? files.  What you
> just said is one of the biggest crocks I've ever seen!
If you own an Amstrad, and you haven't had any problems, I would love to
hear what you do.  Otherwise, YOU don't know exactly what you are
talking about.

May I suggest, in future, that you don't jump in with all guns blazing
(to mix metaphors), and instead find out why the person made the
statement?

Also, FTR, the reason that one program works (UNCR), and another doesn't
(UNCRLZH), seems to be connected with the amount of register
preservation they do, the amount of use they make of the extra Z80
registers, what they actually call, and a few other things.

For instance, unzip (David Goodenough) doesn't work too well on the Amstrad
drives for some reason.  It works fine off my Ram disk (the patch for
which appears to have been made (autoinstall program) at a higher level
than the bug) however. [BTW, this is nothing against David's program --
it SHOULD work perfectly on the Amstrad, and does on other systems]

Unarc (I forget who wrote it at the moment), on the other hand, works
perfectly.  I looked through the source, and saw lots of places where it
used the extra registers very carefully, and preserved them all the way
through (interupts off), etc.   The comments mentioned problems with
extra register usage on "various computers".

Further information, (for those with advice rather than flames!), it
appears that everytime this bug occurs the same piece of code/whatever
is copied into the disk-sector buffer, rather than the sector required.
Only 128 bytes long, but morethan enough to scamble anything that is
supposed to be being decompressed.  I discovered this when one of my editors
(ZDE - I don't have any source to check what it does) had the same problem.

One more little thing to note, the problem doesn't occur all the time,
and as far as I can tell it happens at random.  This cannot be true, but
I haven't discovered what causes it yet.  One possible lead is that
sometimes a file will fail, and then if the operation is tried again
after resetting the drives, it will work.  [This is CP/M+, BTW, the
drives are supposed to auto-reset when needed]

Sorry, everyone, that this has got this long.  It was intended to rebut
the flame, but the opportunity to seek others opinion on the problem
couldn't be missed.

Any useful suggestions are welcomed, and any off-the-cuff flames will be
dealt with in a suitable manner (ie, probably ignored!).

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 16 Mar 91 04:05:17 GMT
From: usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!marlin.jcu.edu.au![e-mail]  (Ross Alford)
Subject: Re: Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Lenz) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Phillip Evans) writes:
>>Hello everyone _ I want to know the smalles comm programs for CP/M.  All
>>I need are terminal capabilities, ASCII capture, and Xmodem.  The best
>>one will be shoehorned into 63K of EPROM which is why size is a premium.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!
This is CP/M, not Mess-Dos.  I've never seen ANY comms program for CP/M
bigger than about 40K or so, and that is MEX1.14, which does all sorts
of tricks.  I suspect that just about any program you pick will fit on a
64K ROM.  I'd suggest trying MDM7XX, for which the full source is (or
was, ca 1984) available on SIMTEL.  You can always cut out things you
don't want.

Ross Alford
[e-mail]

--
Ross A. Alford
Department of Zoology                      Internet: [e-mail]
James Cook University                      Phone:    [phone]
Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia

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Date: 18 Mar 91 17:36:00 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral![e-mail]  (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Re:  Small Comm Program(s)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Just to throw my own 2d in, if you are looking for term programs
for CP/M that you can readily find source to, you might want to try Kermit.
I know the source is availabe, that is how it is distributed.
    I have the 4.0 source, and I have modified it to work with some of
my stranger machines, so it is VERY flexible that way.
    The only problem I can see, and this applies for most of the other
programs too, I think, is that most of the CP/M programs that I am familiar
with don't maintain the strict segregation of code and data space that is
essential if you are going to run the prog off of the ROM.  You may be
forced to move the entire routine to RAM as part of your startup, and then
page the ROM out.  The only other alternative is going through hundreds of
K of assembler source trying to movde all of the data stores to wherever in
your memory map you have some RAM, not my idea of fun.
    Good Luck!
--
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|  Russell Rezaian        |  amiganet.chi.il.us!austral!rrezaian    |
|  P.O. Box 479            |                    |
|  Naperville, Il.  60566-0479    |  "One is best punished for one's    |
|  USA                |   Virtues."  Nietzsche.        |
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+

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Date: 16 Mar 91 12:51:25 GMT
From: pasteur!agate!stanford.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu![e-mail]  (Carol Coates)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

    Greetings. I must have taken a mouthfull of that stupidity-potion.
    That file, VT100KAY.AZM, is *ALREADY* uncompressed! Sorry about
    that last post, folks.

    It hit me, after I had a snack... lack of calories, I guess ;-)

    Take care.

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Date: 20 Mar 91 08:08:40 GMT
From: waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!am.dsir.govt.nz!marcamd!mercury!kcbbs![e-mail]  (Antony Warbrooke)
Subject: Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.080840.286@kcbbs>

How would I get a copy of the library VT100KAY.LBR ???
As I come from New Zealand I don't really want to make any large Toll
Calls to the States and was wondering if anyone knew of any place in
N.Z. that would have a copy of this file???

Any help would be most appreciated!!!
Thanks in advance!

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 10:15:18 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Thu, 21 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   60

Today's Topics:
                  Apple II/CPM communications prog?
                            Cromemco Z-2D
                need docs for random S100, Weird Stuff
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                    Re: Z-80 Softcard Question???
                      Z-80 softcard question???
                          Z8001 and C900...
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Date: 19 Mar 91 16:09:41 GMT
From: hpda!hpcuhc![e-mail]  (Doug McKenzie)
Subject: Apple II/CPM communications prog?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

My Dad has an Apple II (possibly II+, not IIe) with a CPM card, off which he
runs in particular Wordstar.  However, his only communications program runs
on Apple DOS, making him unable to edit email very well, or hack up
responses to news articles :-).

Could anyone offer a recommendation for a (public domain hopefully) CPM
communication program that works on an Apple?

Thanks a lot!

Doug McKenzie
HP HP-UX Support
[e-mail] or ...hplabs!hpda!mck
408 447-4428

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Date: 20 Mar 91 17:47:33 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!usenet!prism.CS.ORST.EDU![e-mail]  (Erik Petersen)
Subject: Cromemco Z-2D
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have a Cromemco Z-2D computer system running
version 2.36 of CDOS  (a CP/M derivative). What
I would like to know is, does anyone out there
have such a system and, if so, do you have a hard-
drive? I need to know what the part number is on
the controller and what kind of interface the controller
expects to the harddrive (ST-506 perhaps?) Of course,
if you want to sell your harddrive and controller,
I'm interested.

Thank you.

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   Erik Petersen                                (Home Phone: [phone])
   [e-mail]

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Date: 20 Mar 91 20:59:15 GMT
From: hoptoad![e-mail]  (Curt Mayer)
Subject: need docs for random S100, Weird Stuff
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I managed to snag some nice S100 boards from Weird Stuff in Santa Clara
at absurd prices.  anyway, i need documentation or pointers, or even
"thats garbage" on a few of them.

    DTC 10-1 sasi/scsi host adaptor.
    Dual Dmem 256k memory card
    Dual Emem 1M memory card
    UCI Easyram 2M memory card
    CCS streaming tape interface
    JB systems fd/sasi interface
    JB systems Z80 slave processor
    DPC-180    looks like 64k z80 slave board
    CCS 4 port serial

I've got docs for just about all morrow and compupro cards, so if
anybody has a need for that kind of thing, get in touch.

--
    curt mayer
        [e-mail]
        [e-mail]
        415-387-0217 home
        415-506-2504 work

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Date: 20 Mar 91 08:43:43 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Ewen McNeill) writes:

> And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
> same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
> describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
> in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
> no Bios source available to my knowledge).

(stuff deleted along the way)

> FTR, I have successfully used UCRLZH to uncrunch files (.?Z?), so it
> definately does work.  This was not off the floppy drives on the
> Amstrad, however (this is where the bug is).
>
> Sorry, everyone, that this has got this long.  It was intended to rebut
> the flame, but the opportunity to seek others opinion on the problem
> couldn't be missed.
>
> Any useful suggestions are welcomed, and any off-the-cuff flames will be
> dealt with in a suitable manner (ie, probably ignored!).

My deepest apologies.  I guess I assumed that all BIOSes were
pretty much well-behaved and it seems to be restricted to some
BIOSes.  Also, it probably has something to do with the fact that
those computers are running CP/M Plus, which I've heard can be
flakey at times.  That's why I stick with my CP/M 2.2 stuff
(highly uprated w/ZCPR33 and stuff like that...)

------------------------------

Date: 21 Mar 91 09:39:51 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Z-80 Softcard Question???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Kenneth G. Smith) writes:

>
> I have recently obtained a CP/M card for my Apple II+ computer (without
> documentation) and was wondering if anyone could help me out with a few
> questions...
>
> 1)  The card has four binary switches on it.  They are all set to the
>     OFF position.  I was wondering what exactly these switches are for.

Two turn interrupts on and off, one deals with memory mapping
(the Z80 card remaps the system's memory rather radically to take
into account that Pages 0-3 are sacred to the 6502, but you can
alternatively switch that mapping off to make the Z80 see it as
the 6502 sees it; for CP/M to work properly, you MUST turn
mapping on because you don't want the 6502 and the Z80 throwing
each other curves... (grin).  Also, the point needs to be made
that the card in question, the Softcard, distributed by
Microsoft, as in the ORIGINAL Softcard, not the Softcard //e,
talks DIRECTLY to the Apple hardware just like the 6502 does.  In
fact, when the Z80 has control, it puts the 6502 to sleep (I
believe it does nothing more than execute wait states).), and the
remaining one controls how the card interfaces to the Apple DMA
daisy chain.

The switches are like this:

      sw1    sw2    sw3    sw4
     MEM MAP DMA   IRQ/INT NMI  <--- SAME ON BOTH
             DAISY  ^   ^
             CHAIN  |   |_ Z80  NAME
                    |_____ 6502 NAME

Sw1:   On:  Disables memory remapping
       Off: Enables memory remapping (Apple CP/M default)


Sw2:   On:  When DMA daisy chain input is dropped low, the Z80
            will drop what it's currently doing to let a
            high-priority device do some DMA and relinquish
            control back to the 6502
       Off: Won't stop at all no matter what priority device is
            requesting DMA

                            ___                          ___
Sw3:   On:  Hooks the Z80's NMI line up with the Apple's NMI line
            on the expansion bus so the Z80 will be interrupted
            upon receipt of a non-maskable interrupt.  The
            Softcard recommends that interrupts, maskable or not,
            should be handled by the 6502 which also sees the
            interrupt, so it can clear its interrupt status and
            return control back to the Z80.
       Off: Disconnects the line.

                            ___                          ___
Sw4:   On:  Hooks the Z80's INT line up with the Apple's IRQ line
            on the expansion bus.  Discussion is the same as
            above.
       Off: Disconnects the line.

The default settings for the switches should be all of them off
for Apple CP/M to work properly.

> 2)  Of the several disks I obtained with the card, I have a program
>     called 'NULU' which deals with libraries.  I was wondering what the
>     purpose of a library is and how you go about using one.  I have
>     only one '.LBR' file on the disks called 'LUX42.LBR' (on the modem7
>     program disk) and haven't been able to manipulate the data in it to
>     any great extent (other than listing it's members using 'NULU').

LUX will deal with libraries too, but they're designed for
RCP/M's.  To extract the LBR's contents (provided they're not
compressed), type "-x" and then a drive/file specification, most
often times the file specificaiton will be "*.*" to extract
everything.  If you were to type "-x b:*.*" at the NULU prompt in
an open library, that means to extract all the files to drive B:,
but it won't unsqueeze the files if they're squeezed (those
files, often times, will have a "Q" as the second letter of the
file's extension).  For those files, use "-q" instead of "-x".
To unsqueeze all files with Q as the second letter of the
file type, type "-q b:*.?Q?" which will unsqueeze (or try to) all
files with the letter "Q" as the second letter in the file type.
Most CP/M programs with multiple files are in the .LBR format,
but there are the occasional .ARK, .ARC, and .ZIP files.

> I believe the card is refered to as a Z-80 Softcard and doesn't appear
> to have any manufacturer's markings on it.  Therefore, I don't believe
> it is actually an Apple made card.

As I said a couple of paragraphs ago, they were distributed by
Microsoft.

> Can anyone enlighten me soas I may get the maximum use out of this
> system.  I have used the CP/M OS with some success and really like what
> it does for my rather modest system.

If you have used CP/M on other computers, then using CP/M program
on the Apple will be more or less the same as you have used them
on, say an Osborne, a Kaypro, an SBC, or an S-100 box.  However,
if you plan to do a lot of stuff between operating systems,
particularly in ProDOS, I very much suggest that you get a
program called "Chameleon" which runs under Apple ProDOS and will
transfer between all four major diskette formats, i.e. DOS 3.3,
ProDOS (you'll need this to run Chameleon), Pascal (it will only
support the 5 1/4" variety, I believe), and CP/M.

Have fun!

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Date: 20 Mar 91 15:13:00 GMT
From: rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (Tom Rieger)
Subject: Z-80 softcard question???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

-> 2)  Of the several disks I obtained with the card, I have a program
-> called 'NULU' which deals with libraries.  I was wondering what the
->   purpose of a library is and how you go about using one.  I have
->   only one '.LBR' file on the disks called 'LUX42.LBR' (on the modem7
->   program disk) and haven't been able to manipulate the data in it to
->   any great extent (other than listing it's members using 'NULU').

 NULU will also allow you to extract the member files. Use the -H
command to see a listing of the various options available in NULU.

 A library file is simply a method of grouping certain files together
into one file for transfer or storage. Often the files are also
compressed in some way as well (squeezed, crunched etc...)

           [e-mail]


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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 91 07:55:13 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Z8001 and C900...

Hello|

 First thing... about ZP/EM (Media Master)... i haven't test it at all,
but it emulat really faster than Z80MU... In Z80MU each BIOS function and
BDOS entry point are replaced by the HALT instruction (which is trap)
i think it's also true for ZP/EM but i've not look at |
 What's the price of Z80MU commercial release?

To the person who have a Amstrad CPC 6128 (like me) where are you?
 In europe i suppose... In U.K. ? In Frence (like me...) ?
Does a HARD DISK exist for the Amstrad ???

Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
 COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
 it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
 this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
 Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
Bye| Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 91 04:15:41 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Fri, 22 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   61

Today's Topics:
                      About Amstrad' Bios bug |
                            Cromemco z-2d
                         Dead Otrona Attache
                 Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                        Re: Z8001 and C900...
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 20:48:49 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: About Amstrad' Bios bug |

Hello|  I'm happy (in fact no) that someone else has found the bug...
 which replace a good sector (a CPM's block of 128 bytes) by anything else...
But if you typed ^C (equal to Bdos fnct number 13) it will work perfectly|

I thought it is  because of my ram-disk (DK'tronics 256Ko)... because one of
 my friend has a CPC w/o ram-disk and all work well| I've a clue about the bug
 All read & write disk access pass throught buffer (see BCB=Buffer Control Blk)
 There's at all 32Ko of buffer (as tou can call cache disk|) located on bank
 number 2 if i remember well. If the patch of the ram-disk alter this area it
 will bug when CPM attempt to save this block (perhaps it's the patch itself|)
 Because ^C flush (but not save) all buffer to disk...
 I think the answer is near | Make a list of BCB, search buffer & verify
 content of all buffer... to solve the bug you have to minimize buffers...
 It's my opinion... What do YOU thing of this ?

I've the OPERATOR's AND PROGRAMMER's GUIDE for the AMSTRAD CPC6128 & PCW8256
by Digital Research Inc. & Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc... it's a very
good book but it doesn't talk about the BIOS... and BCB (buffers) are manage
by the BIOS (see also DPH=Disk Parameter Header... which contain a pointer to
the first BCB...) I've an other book which talk about the BIOS but it's very
short |
Does someone have a better book which talk about programming (not using|)
 CP/M+ include BIOS part please... Thanks...

I hope i've forgetten anything...   Alex Montaron <[e-mail]>

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Date: 22 Mar 91 06:31:00 GMT
From: magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!rochgte!f242.n260.z1.FIDONET.ORG![e-mail]  (David Barnes)
Subject: Cromemco z-2d
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Erik;
        I have quite a bit of Cromemco equipment here, a couple of
systems have hard disks, 1 has an 8inch IMI and the other has a 5.25
inch IMI (20 meg)... Cromemco had a couple of different hard disk
controllers, the WDI and WDI-II boards were the earliest, then the STDC
card came along, (st506 interface)... I have lots of docs if you are
interested also... What do you use your machine for??? Do you have
CROMIX???


                                David Barnes


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Date: 21 Mar 91 16:29:46 GMT
From: csusac!kaos![e-mail]  (Luke Coletti 408-647-3736)
Subject: Dead Otrona Attache
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  A dead Otrona Attache was placed on my doorstep late one night, with its
rightfull quardiansi, and probably gratefull ones at thati, no where to be
found. Actually the Otrona for its time was quite the little box, a color
graphics capability ect, I am quite impressed with its contruction as well.
 To bring it back to life I'll need to find someone who either was with the
company or has a set of schematics. Symtoms are a totally inactive bus, so
no monitor functions, the cpu was replaced and the ROMs examined no change.
  Any help would be appreciated.

Luke
MBARI
[e-mail]

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Date: 21 Mar 91 02:38:20 GMT
From: ogicse!adaptive!asi.com![e-mail]  (Casey Bahr)
Subject: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Sorry if this belongs in the FAQ file.

I'm trying to use a modem communications program on my Kaypro 10.
It appears to be a derivative of MDM730 (sic?).  The on-line
documentation, however, doesn't give me a clue as to what type of
terminal it's emulating, which is where I'm having trouble.  Somewhere
else in other documentation I remember seeing that the Kaypro emulates
a Lear-Siegler adm3a, so that's how I've tried setting the termcap
on the Unix (Sun) machine I'm trying to connect to.  Everything
except vi seems to be working ok (TERM and TERMCAP in my environment
look right for an adm3a).  In vi I get a garbled screen that
makes editing pretty difficult.  I remember long ago using a Kaypro II
and I think the same comm. pgm., but I don't remember how I got around
this problem.

I'm pretty illiterate in this area, so I'm hoping someone in this
group can enlighten me or provide some heuristics to getting the
termcap set properly.  Or maybe direct me to a different comm. package.
I do have a printed document for SUPRTERM, which says it emulates an
adm3a, but I can't find that software on any of my disks.

Thanks in advance,


Casey Bahr
[e-mail] | ogicse!adaptive!casey | uunet!adaptive!casey
Adaptive Solutions, Inc., 1400 NW Compton Dr. Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006
VOICE: [phone] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ FAX: [phone]

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Date: 21 Mar 91 21:23:30 GMT
From: waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[I would send this by Email, but this site (way off in NZ), doesn't know
about the UUCP psuedo-domain, and just bounces the stuff. Sorry,
everyone else.]

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
> [In reply to a flame rebuttal from [e-mail] (Ewen McNeill)]
> My deepest apologies.  I guess I assumed that all BIOSes were
> pretty much well-behaved and it seems to be restricted to some
> BIOSes.  Also, it probably has something to do with the fact that
> those computers are running CP/M Plus, which I've heard can be
> flakey at times.  That's why I stick with my CP/M 2.2 stuff
> (highly uprated w/ZCPR33 and stuff like that...)
Your apology is accecpted.  I have heard a fairly large number of BIOSes
which have problems with various things - most written for Z80 machines
in the days when 8080 code was the most common, so they assumed that
they had the extra registers to themselves.  This is no longer true.

I doubt that the fact they are running CP/M+ has anything to do with it.
CP/M+ seems okay to me, most of the time. Occassionaly it fails to relog
in a disk, but that is only because of the way it detects a new disk
(directory checksumming).  No where near as much hassle as logging in
disks under 2.2!

The trouble with the Amstrad implementation of CP/M 2.2 is that they
used a graphics screen (all the machine has - bit map 16K), which steals
most of the useful memory.  There is only about 42K TPA - hardly enough
to do anything.

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 21 Mar 91 10:01:16 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Z8001 and C900...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:

> Hello|
>
>  First thing... about ZP/EM (Media Master)... i haven't test it at all,
> but it emulat really faster than Z80MU... In Z80MU each BIOS function and
> BDOS entry point are replaced by the HALT instruction (which is trap)
> i think it's also true for ZP/EM but i've not look at |
>  What's the price of Z80MU commercial release?

I've never heard of that one.  Who puts that one out?  I would
like to kick the tires on that one.  As for the "HALT"
instruction, it does seem a logical way to write a software
emulation of the BIOS.  As for how MS-DOS picks it up, curious
how that would work.  Nick Sayer wrote someting similar, but this
is under UNIX.

> To the person who have a Amstrad CPC 6128 (like me) where are you?
>  In europe i suppose... In U.K. ? In Frence (like me...) ?
> Does a HARD DISK exist for the Amstrad ???

You might want to try either Emerald MicroWare (whose address I
could go and snag) if anyone wants it) or any type of controller
that plugs into the Z80 slot.  Most of these controllers come
with software that will talk to the hard disk no matter what kind
of machine it's running on.  I've seen such a setup which even
comes with source code for its BIOS so it's possible for me to
get a system like this for my Ampro (for which I have source for
its BIOS _AND_ main ROM) such that the entire BIOS which will
talk to both hard and floppy disks is entirely self-contained,
and can even boot from the hard disk and not have to boot only
from the floppy and manually (or semiautomatically) run a hard
drive initialization program (not format, but put routines up so
the system can talk to the hard drive).

> Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
>  COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
>  it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
>  this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
> The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
>  Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
> Bye| Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

Gads, you have me salivating!!!!!  I know this part of the
message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this:  Will it
be available in the US?  If so, that could finally put purely
UNIX machines in the hands of commoners.  Then I could gloat as
my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do.

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INFO-CPM Digest             Sat, 23 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   62

Today's Topics:
             8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
                     9600 Baud Kermit for the 128
                           Kaypro TurboROM
            Re: Apple II/CPM communications prog? (2 msgs)
           Re: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation (2 msgs)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 22 Mar 91 18:14:47 GMT
From: eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!tut![e-mail]  (Niilo Neuvo)
Subject: 8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I'm looking for a  8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix.
Our site had a program called zmac, which is fo Z80 and the manual
page says:

     The Zmac assembler is modeled after  the  Intel  8080  macro
     cross-assembler  for  the Intel 8080 by Ken Borgendale.

So does anyone know the name of this program, where to get it from
or how to contact Ken Borgendale. The only thing left of zmac here
is the manual page, so I can`t check the sources either. So finding
a ftp site that has zmac would propbaly help me a lot.

Please respond by mail. And please note that this article is a crossposting.
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Date: 23 Mar 91 02:35:10 GMT
From: magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!gn.ecn.purdue.edu![e-mail]  (Robert S. Ferguson)
Subject: 9600 Baud Kermit for the 128
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Is there a version of Kermit for the Commodore 128 that will support 9600
baud?  The c128 can support 9600, but the version of Kermit that I have
runs in the 64 mode, and only goes up to 2400 baud.  Kermit is the only
file transfer program that works with my UNIX account.

By the way, I have never really used the cp/m mode of my 128, so I would
need some way of running cp/m Kermit off of Commodore formated disks. I
have no problem downloading binaries in 64 mode, except that it is very
slow.  My system includes a c128, 1571 drive, and an 80 column monitor.
Thanks in advance,

<boB<
--
 Where's the KA-BOOM?                           | Robert Ferguson
 There was supposed to be an enormous,          | [e-mail] (or)
 Earth-shattering KA-BOOM!  -- Marvin Martian   | [e-mail]
 r-znvy-zr-vs-lbh-pna-ernq-guvf-naq-lbh-ner-n-grrantr-zhgnag-avawn-ghegyrf-sna

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Date: 23 Mar 91 03:51:57 GMT
From: swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!austex![e-mail]  (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: Kaypro TurboROM
Message-ID: <aXT9y1w163w@austex>

I have previously posted to this newsgroup the information that the TurboROM
for the Kaypro CP/M computers is available from Jay Sage (Sage Microsystems
East).  This is incorrect.  Jay Sage does NOT sell the TurboROM.  TThe
Advent TurboROM for the Kaypros is available from Charles B. Stafford, 4000
Norris Ave., Sacramento, CA  95812, phone [phone].  He has bought out
the stock from the now defunct Advent Corp. and is marketing it from his
home.  He has a variety of items from Advent's old line, including the
WD-1002 controllers, decoder boards, etc.


"Everything works if you let it!"
 --- Travis J. Redfish
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
uucp: austex![e-mail]
 BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)

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Date: 22 Mar 91 08:19:26 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Apple II/CPM communications prog?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:

> [e-mail] (Doug McKenzie) writes:

<< various stuff deleted >>

> > Could anyone offer a recommendation for a (public domain hopefully) CPM
> > communication program that works on an Apple?
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
>
> I've gotten ZMP and Qterm (and subsequently UUCP, but I haven't
> tested it) to run on SoftCard-equipped Apple II Plus myself.  But
> I need to know what kind of Z80 card you're using.  If you're
> using a Microsoft SoftCard, ALS's Z-Card or Z-Engine, or an
> Applied Engineering Z-80 card, I can help you.  If it's ALS's
> CP/M card or PCPI's AppliCard, I cannot help you.

I forgot to mention that both Qterm and ZMP are both public
domain and very good programs.

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Date: 22 Mar 91 08:11:34 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Apple II/CPM communications prog?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Doug McKenzie) writes:

> My Dad has an Apple II (possibly II+, not IIe) with a CPM card, off which he
> runs in particular Wordstar.  However, his only communications program runs
> on Apple DOS, making him unable to edit email very well, or hack up
> responses to news articles :-).
>
> Could anyone offer a recommendation for a (public domain hopefully) CPM
> communication program that works on an Apple?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Doug McKenzie
> HP HP-UX Support
> [e-mail] or ...hplabs!hpda!mck
> 408 447-4428

I've gotten ZMP and Qterm (and subsequently UUCP, but I haven't
tested it) to run on SoftCard-equipped Apple II Plus myself.  But
I need to know what kind of Z80 card you're using.  If you're
using a Microsoft SoftCard, ALS's Z-Card or Z-Engine, or an
Applied Engineering Z-80 card, I can help you.  If it's ALS's
CP/M card or PCPI's AppliCard, I cannot help you.

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Date: 22 Mar 91 18:25:03 GMT
From: baron!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] (Casey Bahr) writes:
>
>I'm trying to use a modem communications program on my Kaypro 10.
>It appears to be a derivative of MDM730 (sic?).  The on-line
>documentation, however, doesn't give me a clue as to what type of
>terminal it's emulating, which is where I'm having trouble.  Somewhere
>else in other documentation I remember seeing that the Kaypro emulates
>a Lear-Siegler adm3a, so that's how I've tried setting the termcap
>on the Unix (Sun) machine I'm trying to connect to.  Everything
>except vi seems to be working ok (TERM and TERMCAP in my environment
>look right for an adm3a).  In vi I get a garbled screen that
>makes editing pretty difficult.  I remember long ago using a Kaypro II
>and I think the same comm. pgm., but I don't remember how I got around
>this problem.
>
>I'm pretty illiterate in this area, so I'm hoping someone in this
>group can enlighten me or provide some heuristics to getting the
>termcap set properly.  Or maybe direct me to a different comm. package.
>I do have a printed document for SUPRTERM, which says it emulates an
>adm3a, but I can't find that software on any of my disks.
>
To my knowledge, all of the public domain communication packages use overlays
to tailor them to a particular computer.  Therefore, if your MDM730, or
whatever, runs on your KP-10 there is a very high probability that it has the
Kaypro's ADM-3 emulation built in.

If it would be useful to you, I could uue Superterm and send it off to you.
However, in my opinion it is a less desirable program.  Of the old standbys,
my personal preference would be for MEX114.

                                                 - don

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: 22 Mar 91 21:49:15 GMT
From: att!emory!ogicse!intelhf!ptdcell0![e-mail]  (Shannon Nelson)
Subject: Re: Help with Kaypro terminal emulation
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Don Maslin) writes:
>To my knowledge, all of the public domain communication packages use overlays
>to tailor them to a particular computer.  Therefore, if your MDM730, or
>whatever, runs on your KP-10 there is a very high probability that it has the
>Kaypro's ADM-3 emulation built in.
>


The Kaypro uses a superset of the adm3a terminal commands.  The kp
enhancements make it much easier to live with, as the adm3a is
rather simple minded.  To help a little, here's the kaypro termcap
file that I've been using for several years.  Converting it to
terminfo is easy enough with captoinfo.


ky|kaypro:am:cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:\
    :le=^H:bs:cm=\E=%+ %+ :cl=1^Z:co#80:ho=^^:li#24:ma=^K^P:nd=^L:up=^K:\
    :dl=\ER:al=\EE:\
    :kd=^J:ku=^K:kl=^H:kr=^L:\
    :ce=^X:cd=^W:\
    :dC=3:dT=3:

--
==============================================================================
Shannon Nelson              Portland Technology Development, Intel
[e-mail]       [phone]    I don't speak for Intel
                  Parents can't afford to be squeemish.

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INFO-CPM Digest             Sun, 24 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   63

Today's Topics:
                 Osborne Executive printing problems
           Re: 8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
                    Re: About Amstrad' Bios bug |
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                         Re: Kaypro TurboROM
                        Re:  Z8001 and C900...
         Wanted: CPM for Imsai 8080 w/Imsai floppy disk drive
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 23 Mar 91 13:38:55 GMT
From: zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!reed![e-mail]  (Chris Campbell)
Subject: Osborne Executive printing problems
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I've been having a major problem with my Osborne Executive since I acquired
it about three years ago.  I had been able to work around it for awhile,
but about two weeks ago said problem became very pesky, and the other
people using the machine haven't been able to work around it since then.
(I've been separated from the machine by an ocean and one and a half
continents for about two months.)

The problem is this: printing.  The Executive (ROM 1.21, BIOS 1.2 Enhanced)
had never properly loaded the printer information on boot-up from SETUP.COM.

Specifically, what was connected to the CENTRONICS port: no matter how it
was permanently saved, it would respond NONE when I asked to see what the
settings were in memory.  (When I asked it to show the settings from drive
A, it would invariably inform me that the printer was connected and was
presumably ready.)

As a result, whenever I wanted to print, I would have to exit the program
(usually WS), load SETUP, load the information from the drive into memory,
exit SETUP, reload the other program, and print.  This would work for as
long as I did not reset or shut down the computer.  This worked for quite
a while, and wouldn't waste much time.

However, this doesn't work anymore.  Now, after twiddling with SETUP so that
it recognizes the printer, the Executive will refuse to load any other
program, and will crash violently.  (This problem began with PrintMaster
(which could be worked around) but spread to WordStar (fatal).)

I've tried to fix the original problem many times, playing with SETUP, alt-
ernating BIOS versions (despite the other printing problems, such as
the notorious "Unassign this device?"), and am now at wit's end.

Any suggestions?

Chris Campbell
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: 22 Mar 91 22:14:32 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!descartes.math.purdue.edu![e-mail]  (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Re: 8080 macro cross-assembler to run under unix
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

  I think you can get zmac on simtel20 under unix-c. It's not same syntax as
Microsoft M80, or DRI MAC.
  There was an 8080 macro assembler written in small-c by Hendriks ????
called  SMAC or some such, that was m80 compatible and produced relocatable
code. As far as I know, zmac only produced hex and binary.
  If you're not committed to emulating some particular cp/m assembler,
the macros can be done under unix with cpp or m4, so the essential piece is
the assembler itself.
  Yet another suggestion is to run a CP/M emulation under unix. You lose a lot
of CPU speed, but for assemblies the diskio may dominate anyway.
  To see how this works, rlogin in as "cpm" at hopf.purdue.edu.
This kicks you into a cp/m 2.2 emulation program. Change to drive B: and run
"mac bios "  to get an idea of how fast the emulation is for your purpose.
Clarence Wilkerson
.

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Date: 24 Mar 91 19:11:04 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: About Amstrad' Bios bug |
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
> Hello|  I'm happy (in fact no) that someone else has found the bug...
>  which replace a good sector (a CPM's block of 128 bytes) by anything else...
> But if you typed ^C (equal to Bdos fnct number 13) it will work perfectly|
Oh, no, it is not just anything else.  It is always the same.  I had a
360K file which I was reading through after putting it through a naughty
program (text file, BTW).  There were 15 problems in it (15/2000 or so
is not too bad, but not too good).  Everytime there was the same string.
Always.  This has happened in the past.  The string includes some NULLs
(0), as well, but basically starts like this
"s^L^s|FF|FFx@ff<fff<<`<....".   Everytime.  Most annoying.  It also
makes me think that it is actually program which is being put in,
probably because someone failed to save a register, or something.

> I thought it is  because of my ram-disk (DK'tronics 256Ko)... because one of
>  my friend has a CPC w/o ram-disk and all work well
This is interesting. I haven't been able to test it without the ram
disk, because I have had the software installed for ages (and it is hard
to test for something which is intermittent).  At one stage I did think
that it was something to do with the patch put on for the ram disk, and
I started disassembling that.  I ran out of time (near end of year, and I
am a student....:-(  It looks as though I should go back to this.
Thought -- how old is your CPC?  Mine is a model A.  I wonder if this
has anything to do with the problem (ie, a bug fix in later versions?).

> I've a clue about the bug
> There's at all 32Ko of buffer (as tou can call cache disk|) located on bank
> number 2 if i remember well. If the patch of the ram-disk alter this area it
> will bug when CPM attempt to save this block (perhaps it's the patch itself|)
> Because ^C flush (but not save) all buffer to disk...
This sounds like what I was thiking of, although I hadn't got as far as
exploring the buffering.  If you are able to do what you are suggest
please do so.  For my part, I will continue my disassembly of the patch.
dk'tronics are too far gone to be able to fight about the reverse
engineering, or help with a bug fix.

> I've the OPERATOR's AND PROGRAMMER's GUIDE for the AMSTRAD CPC6128 & PCW8256
> by Digital Research Inc. & Amstrad Consumer Electronics plc... it's a very
> good book but it doesn't talk about the BIOS... and BCB (buffers) are manage
> by the BIOS (see also DPH=Disk Parameter Header... which contain a pointer to
> the first BCB...) I've an other book which talk about the BIOS but it's very
> short |
Indeed it is sad. What do you have which talks about the BIOS?  We
really need something which talks about the Amstrad BIOS, or better
still a disassembly.  I will ask someone who does a lot of CP/M
programming here if they have any good books.

Anyway, I am pleased to see that I am not alone.  This also tends to
suggest to me that I was on the right track disassembling the patch for
the silicon disk.  If I can only find the disk it was on (1 of about
200....) I will go back to it.

BTW, are there any other Amstrad CPC owners out there with this
problem?

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

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Date: 23 Mar 91 00:55:31 GMT
From: eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!axion!tharr!nowster![e-mail]  (Paul Martin)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Ewen McNeill ([e-mail]) wrote these words:

> And YOU don't really know what you are talking about.  I have had the
> same problems as Klaus has had -- I also own a CPC6128.  The problem he
> describes is exactly true, for the CPC6128.  There is a bug (somewhere)
> in the Bios. I am going to have to go reverse-engineering it (there is
> no Bios source available to my knowledge).

Are you sure you are running the CPM+ supplied with your 6128?

> For instance, unzip (David Goodenough) doesn't work too well on the Amstrad
> drives for some reason.  It works fine off my Ram disk (the patch for
> which appears to have been made (autoinstall program) at a higher level
> than the bug) however. [BTW, this is nothing against David's program --
> it SHOULD work perfectly on the Amstrad, and does on other systems]

Voila! Non-standard system. I have an Amstrad CPC 464 with 512K
banked RAM, and the 6128 ROM. I have used David Goodenough's
UNZIP program every day for the last 9 months without a single
problem, even with 200K ZIP files.

I have just tried UCRLZH11 on a ?Q?, a ?Z? and a ?Y? file with no
problems.

May I hazard a guess that you're running ZCPR or similar, or
something else non-standard?

--
Paul Martin     ..!uunet!tharr!pm.nowster | CP/M systems never die - they
[e-mail]  ([e-mail]) | just get more BIOSed with age.
       <-- tharr *free* public access to Usenet in the UK -->

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Date: 24 Mar 91 00:28:43 GMT
From: csusac!sactoh0!ijpc![e-mail]  (Ian Justman)
Subject: Re: Kaypro TurboROM
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

roadhog@austex (Lindsay Haisley) writes:

> I have previously posted to this newsgroup the information that the TurboROM
> for the Kaypro CP/M computers is available from Jay Sage (Sage Microsystems
> East).  This is incorrect.  Jay Sage does NOT sell the TurboROM.  TThe
> Advent TurboROM for the Kaypros is available from Charles B. Stafford, 4000
> Norris Ave., Sacramento, CA  95812, phone [phone].  He has bought out
> the stock from the now defunct Advent Corp. and is marketing it from his
> home.  He has a variety of items from Advent's old line, including the
> WD-1002 controllers, decoder boards, etc.
>
>
> "Everything works if you let it!"
>  --- Travis J. Redfish
>  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> uucp: austex![e-mail]
>  BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)


Hi, Lindsay!  Just thought I'd interject this; I know Chuck
myself, and if you want to send a message to him (he is presently
not on the net), send it to me and I will see to it that he gets
it.  He and I are members of the local Kaypro group.

BTW, just wondering, Lindsay, do you have NovaDOS Release J ready
yet?

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Date: 23 Mar 91 18:14:41 GMT
From: casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral![e-mail]  (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Re:  Z8001 and C900...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ian Justman) writes:
>[e-mail] (Alexandre Montaron) writes:
>> Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by
>>  COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know
>>  it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9
>>  this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal...
>> The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ...
>>  Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group |
>> Bye| Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
>
>Gads, you have me salivating!!!!!  I know this part of the
>message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this:  Will it
>be available in the US?  If so, that could finally put purely
>UNIX machines in the hands of commoners.  Then I could gloat as
>my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do.

Yes this is wrong place, but the thread has already started.  The C900
seems to be one of many Commodore European orphan machines, if you are
interested in UNIX then look to the Amiga 3000 UX, this machine is based
off of the Amiga 3000 68030 platform, is already in final beta stages, and
is the first machine out there to run UNIX SV r4.  Drool drool drool!!!
    I have talked with a Commodore rep and supposedly it will sell with
the entire UNIX package, X.11 and I think it was open look, NFS(TCP/IP), an
ethernet board, a 200 meg hard drive and either 6 or 8 megs of ram for well
under 10,000.  The system also will support the 24bit color card that is
coming out soon...

By the way, it will also turn into an Amiga 3000 with just a slightly
different boot up procedure (you use the mouse to pull up a boot menu and
click on Amiga or UNIX for what you want).

This isn't a chep machine, but it is a nice looking low end workstation,
and it blows away anything I have seen in the Mac arena...
--
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|  Russell Rezaian        |  amiganet.chi.il.us!austral!rrezaian    |
|  P.O. Box 479            |                    |
|  Naperville, Il.  60566-0479    |  "One is best punished for one's    |
|  USA                |   Virtues."  Nietzsche.        |
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+

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Date: 23 Mar 91 19:57:21 GMT
From: littlei!intelhf!agora![e-mail]  (Alan Batie)
Subject: Wanted: CPM for Imsai 8080 w/Imsai floppy disk drive
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I managed to pick up an Imsai, and would like to do *something* with it.
So, does anyone know where I can get CPM for it?
--
Alan Batie                                     Some people believe they have
[e-mail]                           never met a gay person.
[phone]                                That's what we get for hiding.

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 21:58:13 MST
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INFO-CPM Digest             Wed, 27 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   64

Today's Topics:
                Adding a hard disk to an O1 - How to?
               Amstrad BIOS problems -- Moderately Long
                             Epson Geneva
                          Quantum Hard Drive
          Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
                    VT180 bios information needed
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 25 Mar 91 20:42:24 GMT
From: llnl.gov![e-mail]  (Kirk Fitzgerald)
Subject: Adding a hard disk to an O1 - How to?
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have an Osborne 1 at home that I would use if I had a hard disk.  Any
suggestions or ideas?

Kirk

Have Fun!!!

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Date: 27 Mar 91 09:47:31 GMT
From: usc!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Amstrad BIOS problems -- Moderately Long
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[To those who are not interested in the nitty gritty of a fairly
annoying bug in a patch to the Amstrad Bios, please skip this message
now.  Anyone else, feedback is very welcome to [e-mail], or to
this group]

After seeing various peoples thoughts about what the problem with the
Amstrad BIOS which causes certain programs not to work properly, I did
some experimenting with my Amstrad.

The hardware concerned was an Amstrad CPC6128, with serial interface,
512K of extra ram. For the entire of the test, I used David Goodenough's
unzip program (wonderful program, despite the problems that Amstrad
has), and a 20K Zip file which I picked up somewhere.

The first thing I tried was removing all my extra hardware, and using
the original boot disk.  Unzip from A to B drive, worked fine.  The next
thing was to reintroduce the hardware.  The Unzip still worked fine.  I
then went back to my normal boot disk (with silicon disk patch), and
tried the same thing.  It worked fine.

Then I started experimenting with variouus combinations of drives, and
came up with the following results:

    ZIP file    Output file    Error?
    A        A        No.
    A        B        No.
    B        B        No.
    B        A        No.
    C        C        No.
    C        B        No.
    C        A        No.
    A        C        Yes.
    B        C        Yes.

These results did not change with various pieces of hardware plugged in,
or various patched versions of the CP/M Plus file.  Obviously the C
drive doesn't exist under unpatched versions, so that couldn't be
tested.

However, this does rule out one possibility, of the patched mentioned in
the Serial Interface "Book of Spells" (for the uninitiated, this book
has a picture of a wizard on every page... talk about annoying!).  I
have tried this patch, and it didn't help. I have also tried the patch
for double sided drives (I have one), and it didn't help either.

Because of the way that unzip works (decompresses to default drive),
decompressing to C drive required a command sequence like:

 A>c:
 C>a:unzip a:zipfile.zip e

This means that C drive is the current drive. This seemed to be the only
time when the bug showed up.  I am not sure whether this bug applies to
writing, or not, I suspect that it doesn't. [Other evidence supports
this, see below]

This leads me to the following conclusion:  There is a bug in the patch
for the silicon disk which causes problems when the silicion disk is the
current one, and one of the other drives is read from. This bug is an
occassional one, which appears apparently at random. This suggest
something like interupts being enabled at the wrong time, or whatever.

BTW, every time I have had a failure in this manner (a "faulty" block in
a file), I have been logged into C drive (I usually do -- it is a good
temporary drive), and reading from a floppy drive (usually B).  This
tends to confirm my research of today.

I am continuing my disassembly of the PATCHER.COM program.  I have
sorted out most of the program which does the actual patching, but
sorting out the bits that are patched over is more of a problem.  I am
using DazzleStar (my first time, it looks good) to do the disassembly,
and it allows me to declare various bits as instructions, bytes, words
etc. Very powerful.  If anyone wants a copy of the DazzleStar temporary
file (which will allow you to look through PATCHER.COM too), let me
know.

I would appreciate someone else trying to duplicate my results. This may
well explain why one poster didn't have any problems, and others of us
have.  In the mean time, I would advise unzipping either from the floppy
drives to the floppy drives, or totally in the ram drive.

For your reference, other programs which are affected by this bug: ZDE,
Nsweep (only on certain sized files), LT29, FCRLZH, NULU. There are
probably plenty more, but those are the ones that I have run across so
far.

Any suggestions accepted by Email, or to this group.

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: 26 Mar 91 18:38:55 GMT
From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu![e-mail]  (david lee)
Subject: Epson Geneva
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Anyone know where I might find an Epson Geneva laptop. It's a cute
portable CPM machine. Thanks,
David

------------------------------

Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 12:00:17 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Quantum Hard Drive
Message-ID: <"25-Mar-91 15:00:17 EST".*[e-mail]>

I have come up with two Quantum Q2080 8" hard drives.  Can anybody tell me
anything about them?  Are they more or less the same as the Shugart SA1004?
One thing that IS different is that there does not seem to be an AC power
connector for the drive.  There is just what looks like the standard six pin DC
power connector.

                ~ Mike  ([e-mail])

------------------------------

Date: 25 Mar 91 18:25:50 GMT
From: comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix![e-mail]  (Ewen McNeill)
Subject: Re: Flame returned (was Re: VT100KAY.LBR problems)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Paul Martin) writes:
> Ewen McNeill ([e-mail]) wrote these words:
> > [About certain programs not working too well for some reason on a
> > Amstrad CPC6128 running CP/M+]
>
> Voila! Non-standard system. I have an Amstrad CPC 464 with 512K
> banked RAM, and the 6128 ROM. I have used David Goodenough's
> UNZIP program every day for the last 9 months without a single
> problem, even with 200K ZIP files.
This is depressing. Although it doesn't prove anything.  However, it
does sound as though there is something special about your banked ram,
or something.  Do you unzip things off the ram drive (I would do this
anyway because it is faster -- I only discovered the problem when I had
a small ram drive (one bank, instead of the usual two))?  This has no
problems.  It is only off the floppy disks, and it needs to be a pretty
big file (in another post I mentioned it happening in 15 128-byte blocks
out of about 2000 in a file) for the "random" chance to happen.

> May I hazard a guess that you're running ZCPR or similar, or
> something else non-standard?
I am running CP/M+, as supplied, with a serial interface (no special
patch), and a ram disk (and the patch for it).  The ram
disk consists of both banks of ram, although I have had the same problem
with just one bank plugged in. I think I may even have had problems
without any ram plugged in, but the patch installed.  The serial
interface is a possibility, I guess -- who else of those with problems
has a serial interface attached to their system?

This does make me think of the ram patch as being the problem, so I have
started to disassemble it again. If anyone is interested in helping
work on this, you will need a copy of PATCHER.COM (out of the ram disk
rom), and a copy of DazzleStar.  I will send a copy of the DazzleStar
temporary file, which defines the symbols, etc.

Anyway, it is amazing how many Amstrad users there are out there.  Three
of us have had problems, and one hasn't. There seems to be little
difference between the setups.  We have, however, learnt that there is
no problem with using the ram drive, but there appears to be with using
the floppy drives.  On a random basis.  Does anyone know different?

--
Ewen McNeill.                Email: [e-mail]

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 12:36 EDT
From: Brainwave Surfer <[e-mail]>
Subject: VT180 bios information needed

Guys, i need either:  information, bios listing, bios source, or where
to go for the bios for a Digital VT180 Robin...  Jim
[e-mail]
(EDU, NOT EDT)

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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 91 09:17:35 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #65
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INFO-CPM Digest             Fri, 29 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   65

Today's Topics:
              Comms program for Televideo Portable TPC1
                          com program needed
            Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
                        Re: com program needed
          Re: Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
                 SCSI-driver for 5380/8490-SCSI-Chip
            UUCP for cpm or whereabouts of Dave Goodenough
                 Want to swap 5 inch to 8 inch floppy
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 28 Mar 91 09:40:24 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mullauna![e-mail]  (Michael CIAVARELLA)
Subject: Comms program for Televideo Portable TPC1
Message-ID: <mikec.670153224@mullauna>

Hi *

Does anyone out there know of or have a comms program to suit
a televideo TPC1 portable?  Its a Z80 based CP/M machine, running
(I think) CP/M 2.2.  Is there an ftp site availbe which has something
along these lines?

Thanks,

Mike

------------------------------

Date: 27 Mar 91 04:14:00 GMT
From: sgi!cdp![e-mail]
Subject: com program needed
Message-ID: <1099600001@cdp>

Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a communications program
that will transmit and receive CP/M files?  mcaldon, EcoNet.



------------------------------

Date: 27 Mar 91 18:43:14 GMT
From: casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!tellab5!laidbak!amiganet!austral![e-mail]  (Russell Rezaian)
Subject: Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have a few machines made by a company called OSM, located in CA.  The
machines are ZEuS 3s and a ZEuS 4, these are multi user CP/M systems.
They will support most of the MP/M calls, and will even allows background
precesses, but work using mutliple CPUs in a networked configuration.  The
master provides file system services, print spooling and a few other neat
features.
    I am very fond of these computers, but I have a few problems with
the ZEuS 3s.  The copy of the os (M.U.S.E.) I have for them only supports
306 cyl 6 head 15meg hard drives, these are impossable to find.  Further
the systems are now starting to get flaky on boot.  One will only boot if
an 8 inch floppy is attached, the other (The one I had all my imporatant
data on) refuses to boot at all now...
    If anyone out there has ever heard of these machines, PLEASE mail
me, if anyone has any information on what happened to the company, or any
people who were involved with it PLEASE mail me.  I am lloking for newer
versions of the OS (I have 4.1 for the 3s and 4.7 or 8 for the 4) or at
least versions of the sysgen that will support other hard drives.  If
anyone has schematics, or patch information for the BIOS, again I would be
most thankful...

    I am looking for anything I can find.  These are really nice
machines, I want to be able to keep using them if at all possible.  Any
help would be wonderful!  Thanks.
--
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|  Russell Rezaian        |  amiganet.chi.il.us!austral!rrezaian    |
|  P.O. Box 479            |                    |
|  Naperville, Il.  60566-0479    |  "One is best punished for one's    |
|  USA                |   Virtues."  Nietzsche.        |
+-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+

------------------------------

Date: 28 Mar 91 21:45:04 GMT
From: baron!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: com program needed
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

[e-mail] writes:
>
>
>Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on a communications program
>that will transmit and receive CP/M files?  mcaldon, EcoNet.
>
>

For what machine?

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: 29 Mar 91 15:06:55 GMT
From: zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!gauss.math.purdue.edu![e-mail]  (Clarence Wilkerson)
Subject: Re: Help:  Documentation, information, et cetera.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Sorry, no experience with Zeus MP/M type stuff.
However, on the subject of disk drives, any St-506
innerface drives I've used will cheerfully allow you to
use them at less than full capacity. So if the number of
logical heads is less than or equal to number of physical
head, and same for cylinders, almost any other
drive should replace the ones you have. For example,
Seagate ST251 's have 6 heads, and 820?? cylinders, and
are going new for about $250. Unfortunately, the cheaper
bargain drives such as ST225 only have four heads and would
not plug right in.

If the drive controller is SCSI, then the operating system
may think it reading a certain track and sector, but actually
eventually asks for an absolute sector number, so if the
scsi controller has set the correct parameters the operating
system would not know what it has physically.

Poke around under the hood and see what kind of hard disk
controller is there?
Clarence



------------------------------

Date: 28 Mar 91 16:58:06 GMT
From: mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!bernina!neptune!iiic.ethz.ch![e-mail]  (Probst)
Subject: SCSI-driver for 5380/8490-SCSI-Chip
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Did someone already write SW for the National Semiconductor
SCSI Chip DP8490 or the NCR5380-SCSI-Chip? I've got a
Seagate ST1096 Harddisk which I'd like to connect to my
homebrew Z180-Computer and I don't want to reenvent the reel.
I'm looking for the low-level-SW dealing with the SCSI-Chip,
the connecting to the disk etc.  The BIOS is then no problem,
once I've got this SW.
I'd be very glad if someone could help me! :-)

Thanks in advance,
Urs Probst, [e-mail], Zurich, Switzerland.

------------------------------

Date: 29 Mar 91 03:08:56 GMT
From: synchrods.com![e-mail]  (Daniel Senderowicz)
Subject: UUCP for cpm or whereabouts of Dave Goodenough
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I was wondering if anybody knows where can I get the latest
version of uucp for the KayproII. Furthermore I haven't heard of
Dave Goodenough since he moved to the west, did he make it or he
is still walking? Thanks,

Dan.

------------------------------

Date: 28 Mar 91 20:50:36 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!terminator!pisa.citi.umich.edu![e-mail]  (Jim Rees)
Subject: Want to swap 5 inch to 8 inch floppy
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

This has nothing to do with CPM, but I understand you guys are the experts
on floppy drives.  I've got a computer (Apollo dn330) that has an 8 inch
floppy drive that I want to change to a 5 inch.  The 8 inch has a capacity
of 1.2 Mb, something like a st506 interface (sa850?), and a 50 pin card-edge
connector.  I've got pinouts for the 50-pin and also for the 34-pin
connector used by the 5 inch drives.

I'm told that the rotational speed is the same, and I know the sector layout
is the same, so I'm assuming that bit rates and signal timings will just
fall out for free.

1.  Will this work?

2.  Is there any chance this will just plug-n-play, or will I have to muck
around with the device driver in the OS?

3.  What do I do with pin 2 (density) on the 34-pin?  I assume tie it high
or low -- which is it?

4.  What about pin 16, motor-on?  Should I tie this high or low, or tie it
to pin 4, head-load?

5.  What is pin 2 on the 50-pin, RWC?  What should I do with it?

6.  Any tips on shopping for a 5 inch drive?  Will any drive with the 34-pin
(sa450?) connector work, as long as it's a 1.2 Meg drive?  How much should a
floppy cost?  The local repair shop has one for US $60, is that OK?

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 15:15:26 MST
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Subject: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #66
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INFO-CPM Digest             Sat, 30 Mar 91       Volume 91 : Issue   66

Today's Topics:
                        CP/M Sector Interleave
                       Finding System Software.
                               NEC APC
               need info on OSM Computer Corp. machine
                      Re: CP/M Sector Interleave
                 Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #61 (2 msgs)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 29 Mar 91 15:56:04 GMT
From: agate!bionet!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!austex![e-mail]  (Lindsay Haisley)
Subject: CP/M Sector Interleave
Message-ID: <6FVkZ1w163w@austex>

Can anyone suggest a method or program to me by which I might optimize the
sector interleave on a hard drive on a CP/M machine?  I have recently
installed a Seagate ST-125 (20 meg) hd in my Kaypro 10 and although the
drive is speedy, the system seems to run quite sluggishly.  The format
program (ADVFMT.COM) allows a choice of interleaves, however I'm reluctant
to back off and reformat the drive (a job of several hours) until I know
the correct value.

I would also appreciate help from anyone who can give me precice definitions
of the terms skew and interleave.  I was under the impression that these
terms were the same, referring to the physical spacing between succcessive
logical sectors needed to optimize access times, however some of my recent
reading has led me to believe that these terms are not interchangable.


"Everything works if you let it!"
 --- Travis J. Redfish
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
uucp: austex![e-mail]
 BBS: 512-259-1261 (Znode 77 - aka - Kaypro Club of Austin)

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Date: 29 Mar 91 21:12:48 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!solman.mlb.semi.harris.com![e-mail]  (Ben Eaton)
Subject: Finding System Software.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

     Hello!

          I have come across a "ZORBA" portable computer, that is in good
     working order but there is no systems disk to go with the unit.  I
     know the following things about this unit:

          -  It was manufactured by:   GEMINI ELECTRONICS
                                       130 Baywood Ave.
                                       Longwood, FL  32750

          -  It is a Z80 based machine.

          -  It has two 784K TELCOM 5.24" disk drives.

          -  It uses a CPM operating system.

          If anyone out there knows where I can aquire a systems disk ( I am
      willing to pay for it ) or knows how I could reconstruct a systems disk
      I would like to here from you.

      Ben I. Eaton
      [phone]

          P.S.

                    I have already call the manufacturer and they were no
                help at all.




------------------------------

Date: 29 Mar 91 03:08:59 GMT
From: swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!labtam!eyrie![e-mail]  (Nicole Angst)
Subject: NEC APC
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I have an OLD NEC APC(the original APC), on eof the dual MS-DOS / CPM
machines and am looking for some software for it. My manuals include a
manual for the extended graphics libraries under MS-DOS but I dont have
these libraries and NEC Australia have been less than helpful.

    I am interested in any other software for this beast and have
some user group software and a small C compiler under CPM and a full set
of manuals (including hardware!) if any one is interested.

niki

[e-mail]        OR    [e-mail]

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Date: 29 Mar 91 22:14:13 GMT
From: prism!wayward![e-mail]  (Harold C. Forbes)
Subject: need info on OSM Computer Corp. machine
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Someone gave me a couple of OSM machines with no documentation.
If I can find out something about them I would rather use them
than break them up for parts.  I have a Kaypro 10 so I'm not
a novice at CPM, but I'm not up to re-writing a BIOS either.

When it boots, I get the following message on one of the ports.
If I ^C after it says running, I can do CPM type stuff, like the
dir listing following.  The floppy seems to be P:, but I can't
read the floppy I found in the machine.  I think it was origonally
used for accounting stuff.  I don't know if it was a turn-key system
or what.

Thanks for any info.

    harold

O S M  Computer  Corporation
Multi-User  System
Release version 4.75/5.05
09/24/84
Copyright (c) OSM Computer Corporation 1982,1983,1984

Single 12mb, 96tpi floppy



MUSE-8/16  Ver 04.78 Initialization sequence...
running....

A>dir
A: XTALK    COM : DDT      COM : ALLOCHK  COM : TERMCAP  SYS
A: Z4SY5H01 COM : Z4SY5F01 COM : WSX      COM : PRINT    COM
A: Z4S5H07R COM : BADBLK2  COM : WHO      COM : FLBACKUP COM
A: EDIT     HLP : +XSUB    DRV : Z4SY5F03 COM : HRESTORE COM
A: HELP     COM : LOGON    COM : HELP     IDX : MEMTEST  COM
A: MAIL     COM : Z4MUSE   SYM : NEWDISK  COM : STAT     COM
A: COPY     COM : MAIL     COM : REHASH   COM : TYPE     COM
A: SETPASSW COM : Z4FMTFL  COM : TELECOM  SYS : FLARCHIV COM
A: +XSUB    COM : +SPOOL   COM : CHECKSUM DOC : HSHDIR   COM
A: FLOPPY   COM : SETMODE  COM : RSPLOAD  COM : Z4MUSE/U SYS
A: BADBLK1  COM : CSMASK   MSK : CS       COM : LOAD     COM
A: CLACRS   DAT : CHECKSUM COM : ASM      COM : DUMP     COM
A: EDIT     COM : FILES    COM : HBUILDER COM : TOFILES
A: HELP     TXT : PRLTRANS COM : SUBMIT   COM : REHASH   COM
A: TIME     COM : TELECOM  COM : WDFORMAT COM : Z4SY5H03 COM
A: Z4MUSE   COM : TOINDEX  AGE : CLLCF    DAT : WSMSGS   OVR
A: WSOVLY1  OVR : SPELSTAR OVR : MAILMRGE OVR : CS       OV2
A: CS       OVR : CSDUMP   OVR : INSTCS   OVR : BALSHEET CSD
A: DEMO     CSD : HELP1    CSD : HELPER   CSD : INSTCS   DAT
A: MIKSB200 DAT : CLLTR    DAT : CLSYS    DAT : SPELSTAR DCT
A: SAMPLE   TXT : CLS      COM : SHUTDOWN COM : WINSTALL COM
A: WS       COM : CS       OV1 : CSDUMP   COM : INSTCS   COM
A: MBASIC   COM : Z4S5F07R COM : TOMASTER AGE : 3TOLIST  AGE
A: 6TOLIST  AGE : TO000    OVL : TO100    OVL : TO200    OVL
A: TO300    OVL : TO400    OVL : TO900    OVL : TO       COM
A: CRTCONF  COM : APTTEST  CSD : SWE      FAN : CLLCF    BAK
A: COPY     COM
A>dir b:
B: Z4S5F07R COM : Z4MUSE   SYM : Z4MUSE/U SYS : Z4MUSE   COM
B: Z4S5H07R COM : NEWDISK  COM : COPY     COM : WDFORMAT COM
B: HSHDIR   COM : LOGON    COM : CLS      COM : CLSYS    DAT
B: CLLTR    DAT : CL       COM

FORBES, HAROLD C.   N5JCM
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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FORBES, HAROLD C.   N5JCM
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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ARPA: [e-mail]

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Date: 30 Mar 91 19:45:03 GMT
From: baron!baron!pnet07![e-mail]  (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: CP/M Sector Interleave
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

roadhog@austex (Lindsay Haisley) writes:
>I would also appreciate help from anyone who can give me precice definitions
>of the terms skew and interleave.  I was under the impression that these
>terms were the same, referring to the physical spacing between succcessive
>logical sectors needed to optimize access times, however some of my recent
>reading has led me to believe that these terms are not interchangable.
>
It is my understanding that proper usage speaks to interleave on a disk
surface, and skew speaks to the positional relationship of corresponding
sectors on different surfaces.  That is, interleave is intended to allow for
processing time that the controller needs after reading one sector and before
reading the next.  Skew, somewhat similarly, is intended to account for the
processing time that the controller needs when switching read heads.

Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm
Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07![e-mail]
- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 18:47:36 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #61

Hello|

   Someone is talking about a CP/M emulator on Unix system ???
So, the Unix system that i'll bought is based on a Z8000 perhaps is it
possible to make a more efficient emulation because only op_codes changes
(number not mnemonic)... The Z8000 has sixteen 16bits register and the
Z80 much less... Is someone interresting by this ? Also, i can write a
translater program which translat Z80 to Z8000 assembly language...
Like Z80/8080 to 8086 when new 16bits intel micro-processor appear in
1981,2 ? Does some have a such program (Z80 to 8086) ?

 Is there a Zilog micro-processor list ??? Can i talk about Z8000 here?
Where?

 Thanks for all...    Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 91 19:00:34 EDT
From: Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V91 #61

i've forget about the C900/Z8000/Unix machine...

To Ian Justman... It's a PROTOTYPE| so you can't find it in France nor in
 US nor anywhere... Sorry... But the Unix release is a beta release 0.9
 so there will be a lot of bugs i'm sure (but in Z8000 there will be no
 probleme...) Do you want to came in France to see it :-)

      Alexandre Montaron <[e-mail]>

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