#: 17524 S1/General Interest 13-Feb-93 19:15:52 Sb: Tomcat70 for sale Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 To: all FOR IMMEDIATE SALE --- Tomcat 70 Computer, Complete!! This system includes the Tomcat 70 Computer from FHL, running, of course the Signetics 68070 processor. Also included is: 105 MB Quantum Drive 5.25" 40 DS Drive K-BUSS Card 2 Meg DRAM Memory 256K SRAM Accelerator Card 2 Port Serial card with 68681 chip 1CM135 Magnavox Monitor There is loads of software included in this sale, as this is a forced sale, due to unforseen circumstances. Including software, this system cost me over $3500 to set up. Will sell for $1500 (o.b.o. - no reasonable offer refused). Contact -- Jim Sutemeier 818:891-3369 (leave message if not at home) #: 17525 S1/General Interest 13-Feb-93 23:41:47 Sb: hardware sale Fm: Steve Schroeder 70713,3255 To: all HARDWARE FOR SALE COCO 3 512k Piggyback socket installed $75.00 Multi Pak Upgraded $45.00 Disto mini controller switchable between 2 roms $45.00 Speech and sound cartridge Tandy $20.00 EARS Speech recognition cartridge $45.00 300 Baud Modem $15.00 RS floppy controller card works erraticly Two button mouse $10.00 2 joysticks $ 5.00 Hi-low res joystick adapter Hawksoft $15.00 Blue streak Serial to paralell interface $20.00 And lots more!!!!!! #: 17547 S1/General Interest 19-Feb-93 16:10:02 Sb: Letter reciept Fm: BOB LEET 72020,2536 To: Brother Jeremy 76477,142 Brother Jeremy, Did you receive my letters yet? Just wondering, since I haven't gotten anything back yet. I got plenty of packing materials from work, and everything is packed good. There will be 4 boxes of hardware and one box of books. I have a feeling it will cost us about $25-30 each. There is a lot of stuff there. I hope you enjoy all of it. Bob////// P.S. I found an extra SS F/D Tandon drive (one of the originals). #: 17529 S7/Telecommunications 15-Feb-93 03:24:18 Sb: #17434-#terminal help Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Hey Bob, I think the main problem is LAP-M. I setup my modem to only use V.32 and MNP 5 and have had none of the symptoms your having since. There should be an AT code to turn off the LAP-M correction. I use to get errors so bad that long DL's would abort about 9/10ths of the way thru. Really is painful on 2 meg DL's. Let me know if this helps you out. - Mike - There is 1 Reply. #: 17533 S7/Telecommunications 15-Feb-93 21:10:24 Sb: #17529-terminal help Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X) Ummm, Mike, I don't recall what errors were are talking about. However, LAP-M (the same as v42) works fine for me. I'm having no problems at all talking to CIS these days. Well, I did "fix" the input buffer overflow problem with the mm/1 screens getting behind sterm. I don't use v42.bis at all (could that be a problem?). #: 17534 S7/Telecommunications 15-Feb-93 23:06:12 Sb: #Unzip w/ inflate Fm: Don Kircher 76346,3475 To: Bob van der Pol Hi Bob! I saw your upload of UNZIP.LZH for MM/1 and was wondering if the source for that is the current version available in IBMPRO with inflate? What is the probability of compiling it for Coco successfully? I have been playing with the code, but I have no programming backround. Have even gotten it to run through to the linker, though I'm a bit suspicious that it will all fit in memory. This has become a rather critical issue for me since the archive feeds I get from the FAA of the Federal Register no longer work with Vaughn Cato's unzip3.[sigh] All I've done so far is #define it for UNIX and remove or comment out exotic #if statements. Thx Don Kircher There is 1 Reply. #: 17536 S7/Telecommunications 16-Feb-93 20:46:54 Sb: #17534-#Unzip w/ inflate Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Don Kircher 76346,3475 (X) The unzip I have was mailed to me by a friend who got it from a unix source. The 'readme' says "A public distribution version of the Info-ZIP project's generic UnZip utility; 21 August 1992." My binary is 55K, so I would think that it _should_ fit in the coco3 since the binaries are usually much smaller there due to shorter opcodes. Mind you, I see I have linked in 64K of stack space too...so it might not. If you want I could send you the whole mess on a disk (the source is about 300K so I don't want to waste $ on uploading). Send me a formatted disk in a mailer and I'll copy the mess over for you. BTW, as I recall, I ended up using GCC to compile this. Plus I needed a number of unix functions...some from gcc and others from blarslib.l. Neither of which will help you on the coco. There is 1 Reply. #: 17537 S7/Telecommunications 16-Feb-93 23:02:34 Sb: #17536-#Unzip w/ inflate Fm: Don Kircher 76346,3475 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) The file I've been messing with carries the same banner and date as yours. It came with compiling instructions and .proj files for a BUNCH of computers. I'm guessing that the unix functions were ANSI standard library functions such as you might find in the Bourland C++ package? I stumbled across a book of source code for the ANSI standard C library (Plauger 1990) which take care of that if it will just fit in memory. Too much tinkering and I'll have to throw in the towel. Linked lists and the like are **way** beyond what I'm capable of doing.. Thanks for the reply dlk There is 1 Reply. #: 17548 S7/Telecommunications 19-Feb-93 19:14:58 Sb: #17537-Unzip w/ inflate Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Don Kircher 76346,3475 I don't think you'll have to resort to the Plauger book too much. The problem is mostly a bunch of missing unix-like calls. I think there is a file around here (unix.lib or something ....anyone recall for 6809???) which has most of the missing stuff. Let us know how you fare. #: 17532 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 15-Feb-93 18:31:20 Sb: coco software Fm: Steve Schroeder 70713,3255 To: all 2/15/93 Here is a list of used software I currently have for sale. All software comes with original disks and docs. Buyer pays shipping on all items FOB Nanuet, NY. Figure on $3.00 to $5.00 in most cases. ******************************************************************************* COCO 2 OS9 OS9 Level 1 TRS Copy Deskmate Basic O9 DL Logo Tandy Hires screen dump utilities I'll take $20.00 for all the level 1 stuff or $5 each. RS-DOS DIsk EDTASM $ 8.00 512k memtest, Ramdisk, print spooler $ 8.00 Flightsim 1 $ 5.00 Sands of Egypt $ 5.00 ******************************************************************************* COCO 3 OS9 OS9 Level 2 (includes BASIC09) $10.00 Multi Vue $10.00 Dyna Calc Tandy spread sheet $10.00 Data Windows Nice data base $25.00 B+B PowerBoost software and instructions (just add the 6309) $15.00 Level 2 Tools $12.00 Tools 2 $15.00 Lots of public domain patches and programs, device drivers, modules, etc. RS-DOS Simply Better The best COCO3 word proccesor $15.00 V-Term Terrific terminal program $15.00 COCO Graphics Designer Plus make cards, flyers, signs $ 5.00 Newspaper Plus Nice desktop publisher $22.00 Color Max Deluxe Drawing program $12.00 Deception Path Great game $12.00 War Monger water ballons to space invaders $15.00 KDSK3 (registered copy) Disk editor+file keeper $50.00 Plus, I have all the notes and articles I've collected over the years, all the sources and address's etc. $10.00 Steve Schroeder CIS 70713,3255 Delphi STEVESCHR (914) 429 2031 #: 17535 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 16-Feb-93 13:47:06 Sb: 4in1 6551 blues? Fm: Sandy Tipper 72060,76 To: all I have a DISTO SCII with 4-in-1, and I cannot seem to get the serial port to work. I have ACIAPAK.DR and have it patched as specified, using /t2 as the descriptor. I also used to use Wizpro, soI have PROACIA.DR and the descriptor /mwp. Both descriptors are set for the right address $07FF54, and name their respectively appropriate drivers. With /mwp, I can write to the modem, but cannot receive. With a loopback connector and using a 'scope, with 'xcom9 /mwp' I see data xmitted, but no characters echo, although DTR is fed back to DSR and CD. With /t2 and the "correct" driver, the transmit line is dead. (scope shows constant -ve voltage). Is there something wrong with my software or understanding, or is my 6551 toasted? I don't want to risk hacking at the 4-in-1 board to replace it if its not a hardware problem. Urgently required to get my system useful again. Sandy #: 17540 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 17-Feb-93 19:00:13 Sb: #6309 and 1 meg Fm: james pottage 71750,2012 To: ALL I am looking for help with my 1 meg upgrade and the 6309. Recently I installed the 6309 processor with Power Boost and everything ran fine for the first two months. A week ago I installed the 1 meg board to the processor and shorted the proper resistor. The system works, but two of the three Ram drivers that I have (Rammer by Kevin Darling and RDISK ) both crash the system either while being formatted or after being formatted when a file is copy to /R0. I tried changing R22 to a 47 ohm resister and the problem continues. No other problems have been encountered except somtimes deiniz will lock the system up. I have also tried changing the 512 K board with a spare board but this does nothing. Moreover, Kyumgai to be Ninja and other VDG based programs run fine in a VDG window. The Ram Driver that came with the OS9 development package works fine. Any ideas on what is happening would be greatly appreciated. Jim Pottage There is 1 Reply. #: 17549 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo) 19-Feb-93 19:15:05 Sb: #17540-6309 and 1 meg Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: james pottage 71750,2012 Sounds like the upgrade(s) are working fine but the software isn't. I guess the easiest thing to do is just use the ramdisk which works . I do recall some chatter awhile ago about patches to both Kevin's ramdrive and a patch to the Dev. Pack ramdrive. If everything else is okay, it doesn't sound like a hardware problem to me. #: 17528 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 14-Feb-93 19:06:53 Sb: #17498-Xon/off Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Bob, > Can anyone shed some light on xon/off for me when it comes to device > descriptors. I'm confused about just how these things work. Sure. In Sterm, it doesn't matter what you have your hardware descriptor set to. Sterm nulls out the entire descriptor and manages everthing itself. As you found, the only time it uses XON/XOFF is during a buffer capture, and that is only necessary with the CoCos. If you don't null out the descriptor, the driver will send an XOFF when the drivers internal buffer gets full, and an XON when some room is available. Hardware handshaking is another thing altogether, but much like XON/XOFF. With the high speed modems, there is need for some sort of handshaking between the modem and the computer. Since you don't want to use XON/XOFF as you already noted, RTS/CTS handshaking is used instead. In fact, the higher speed modems require this to be used properly. Hope this helps some. /*----------- /\/\ark -----------*/ #: 17526 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 14-Feb-93 10:06:02 Sb: #17513-G-WINDOWS for ATARI ST Fm: Michael Fisher 72320,1233 To: Tom Birt 76640,1205 (X) Hi Tom - thanks for the input.I appreciate the original GWindows Steve did is mono only but would much prefer that to nothing.The company I mentioned may provide colour even though, as you say, the ST is limited in that area. 1) Re Kwindows I have talked to Kevin off and on for about two years, it hasn't happened and may not, he just has too much to do.This is in no way a critiscism of the guy, he has done wonders for us. 2) Re the Falcon it sounds great but I have absolutely no faith in Microware doing a port for it, they are not machine people unless they get big bucks from a company who ask for it. I still hope a few more people will ask for G-WINDOWS to make the port worthwhile to do, a few have come forward but not visa CIS, Cocolist so far and I put it on comp.os.os9 also. Nice to hear from you - Mike Fisher #: 17527 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 14-Feb-93 17:14:09 Sb: Amiga disks Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467 To: all Can anyone tell me if it is possible to read an AMIGA formatted disk on an MM/1. If it is possible, what would be the DMODE settings needed ? Larry Olson #: 17531 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 15-Feb-93 13:34:23 Sb: #MM1 and IMS worries Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 To: All OK people, I'm getting worried. I ordered an MM1 in November, my credit card was charged on December 16th, but to date, no MM1. Apparently, there has been a problem in obtaining good PAL chips. On a whim, I called IMS today only to find their phone has been temporarily disconnected. This is a not a good sign and makes me wonder if buying an MM1 was a good idea. I ordered the unit through Blackhawk Enterprises (an IMS rep). David Graham has been as helpful as possible, but the delay is getting ridiculous, and the slow disappearance of Paul Ward is worrisome. First he dropped off Delphi, now he's gone from Compuserve. I'm especially worried because I've already paid off the bill, trusting soul that I am. Does anyone know what's going on? If yes, please let me know. There is 1 Reply. #: 17538 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 17-Feb-93 05:31:35 Sb: #17531-#MM1 and IMS worries Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41 To: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 (X) Hugo, > Does anyone know what's going on? If yes, please let me know. Paul has been going through some very difficult times lately. He has had a number of orders waiting on PAL chips for a couple months now. I don't know what the problem is there, whether there isn't enough money to buy the chips or if they are back-ordered. I sent him a few sets of PALs that I had so he can at least get those orders out. After that, I don't know. Paul has been slow getting orders out in that past, but as far as I know, everyone has received what they ordered after the charge to the credit card was made. Hope this relieves your fears somewhat. /*----------- /\/\ark -----------*/ There is 1 Reply. #: 17541 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 17-Feb-93 19:20:59 Sb: #17538-MM1 and IMS worries Fm: Hugo Bueno 71211,3662 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) Thanks for your response Mark. I hope one of the PAL chips you sent was mine. I guess I got antsy when I found the phone had been disconnected... Hugo #: 17550 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 20-Feb-93 00:42:34 Sb: OS9/68K Programmer Avail Fm: steve mann 71310,1742 To: All I am a S/W engineer with 3 years of OS9/68k experience, and I am looking for a new position. Any leads would be appreciated. #: 17530 S15/Hot Topics 15-Feb-93 10:21:00 Sb: #17414-#New Product Announcement Fm: Walter J Schilling 70312,3406 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) Mark: I hate to be so openly dumb, but what is OS/9? I noticed you are from Missouri, so I feel a little safer exposing my lack of being "in-the-know"; I'm a Missouri transplant in California. Also, I keep noticing that there seems to be more going on in Missouri than I expected. Thanks, Walt There is 1 Reply. #: 17539 S15/Hot Topics 17-Feb-93 05:31:54 Sb: #17530-#New Product Announcement Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41 To: Walter J Schilling 70312,3406 Walt, > > I hate to be so openly dumb, but what is OS/9? > I noticed you are from Missouri, so I feel a little > safer exposing my lack of being "in-the-know"; I'm > a Missouri transplant in California. Also, I keep noticing > that there seems to be more going on in Missouri than I > expected. Well, you are asking me this question in the OS-9 forum you know. OS-9 is a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system for the Motorola CPUs (6809, 68000 series, etc.) that looks and operates much like Unix, but is much more modular and easy to use. I don't have their address handy, but someone else here will be able to give you the address and phone number for Microware Systems, the people that make OS-9. They will be able to send you more information if you like. Not that I don't want to talk to you, but it is difficult to explain about the entire operating system. If you have any specific questions, I'll be able to answer them for you. /*----------- /\/\ark -----------*/ There is 1 Reply. #: 17542 S15/Hot Topics 17-Feb-93 22:51:59 Sb: #17539-New Product Announcement Fm: Chris Perrault 75346,165 To: Mark Griffith 76070,41 (X) Ok Walter here's the address for Microware: Microware Systems Corporation 1900 N.W. 114th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50325-7077 You should just give them a call at:515-224-1929 Ask them for some documentation of OS9 and they'll send you a BUNCH of FREE books and other documentation describing OS9. You'll be glad :) Like Mark said, there is so much about OS9 to just describe it in Forum, which is why I wish Microware still had their little section up because they had menu options that gave a great big summary on the products including OS/9. Have you ever heard of OSK? That IS OS9 under a different name. >Chris< Press !>