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From: ratazzie@rl.af.mil (E. Paul Ratazzi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Problem with ZL-1 MiniSport
Keywords: ZL-1
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:39:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.zenith
Organization: Rome Laboratory

I have a MiniSport Laptop (ZL-1) which has a nasty habit of sometimes
rebooting when I access the A: drive.  Has anyone seen this problem
and/or know of a fix?

Thanks,
Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
From: dhubin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donald C Hubin)
Subject: Zenith Technical Support through Internet?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:51:20 GMT

My old Zenith 286 refuses to boot up.  It completes only part of the
POST before dying.  (The first three LEDs on the system board [CPU,
ROM, & RAM] go off.  The INT, DSK and RDY LEDs stay on.)  The manual
gives no clue as to probably causes of this saying, rather, to call
the service technician.  Local service gives me an 800 number, at
which I get no answer.  

Is there an internet address for Zenith Technical Support?  If so, I
would very much appreciate someone taking the time to post or (better)
e-mail me the address.  The 800 number I have is 800-777-9108.  If you
have another number for Zenith Technical Support, I'd love to increase
my chances of getting in touch with them over the telephone, too.
Best of all, of course, if anyone knows what is the suspect component,
I would welcome any diagnoses you want to offer.

Don

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Montgomery Grant
From: tbear@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (Sam Mazzotta)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 20:15:06 EDT
Organization: The Heart of Gold BBS, Lemont PA

grendel@cis.ksu.edu (Stephen Spencer) writes:

> In article <1992Sep7.211124.14665@cs.umb.edu> edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P
> >Has anyone on the net done business with Montgomery Grant out of Brooklyn,
> >New York before?  I'm curious to know how reputable their firm is.
> >
> Deal with those idiots at your own risk.  When my old C64 went nutso about 1.
> years back, I tried to purchase a *working* C64c from them.  They sent me 5
> different 'c's' (charging me for the postage) without bothering to let me
> in on the fact that the whole damned series was faulty.  So, now I have a 
> screwed up C64c and a jury-rigged C64.  BTW, for all you C= bashers out 
> there, I bought the 64 in 1983 and didn't have any problems until 1990 :)
> 
> Anyway, stay away from MG if you know what's healthy for your bank acct...
> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
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Steve, 

You should purchase a used 128.  It does everything a 64 does and much 
more.  I upgraded about a year ago, and am glad I did.

And you can probably find one for less than a new 64C would cost you.  
Or, get a used 64.  They can be found very cheap.
 
Sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: dc@ais.org (David Daniels)
Subject: Desterm?
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 07:52:33 GMT


Where can I find any (or the newest) version of Desterm, via anonymous ftp?
Can't seem to find it on milton.u.washington.edu. (c128current is gone.)

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From: Frank.Prindle@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Frank Prindle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: 6526A CIA chip and Paperback Writer
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:24:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In repairing my C64 recently, I replaced CIA  1 (originally a 6526) with
a 6526A (because that was what was available).  In all respects, the
replacement chip worked just fine; that is until I tried to load the old
faithful word processor  "Paperback Writer (Version 1.20)", at which point
the disk drive just sort of acts dumb and doesn't load anything.  I tried
swapping in another C64 which did not have the replacement chip and it worked
fine, as did the original C64 before the 6526 died.  Any clues what makes a
6526A sufficiently different from a 6526 that this program won't load?
More to the point, does anyone have an unprotected "Paperback Writer" that
he/she would be willing to copy for a registered owner of the program (me)?
I plan to contact Digital Solutions, but suspect that they will not be able
to duplicate the problem because they are several revisions removed from the
version I have, and may not even know what a 6526A is.
Thanks,
Frank Prindle
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich)
Subject: Re: 16 bit CRC source?
Summary: Actual code!
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:43:28 GMT

In article <ioVNqB1w164w@jwt.UUCP> bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP writes:
>Am looking for either 16-bit CRC source code (64/128) or the 
>equation/tables.

Here's a 6502 code fragment to calculate a 16-bit CRC from my nearly finished
C64 ZMODEM implementation (which has fallen by the wayside -- anyone 
interested in finishing it?).

-------- cut here
;
;Calculate 16-bit CRC on a data block
;by Daniel Fandrich <shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
;
;This algorithm is the same as used in ZMODEM's CRC-16 fallback mode.
;
;To use: 
;  1) store 0 in crc and crc+1
;  2) call updcrc once for each byte in the data block
;  3) call updcrc twice with the block's two CRC-16 bytes
;  4) if the result in crc and crc+1 are both 0, the data block is correct
;
crc      = $fb
temp     = $fd

updcrc   sta    temp
         pha
         txa
         pha
         ldx    #$07
crc1     bit    crc+1
         bpl    crc2
         jsr    crccal
         lda    crc+1
         eor    #$10
         sta    crc+1
         lda    crc
         eor    #$21
         sta    crc
         clc
         bcc    crc3
crc2     jsr    crccal
crc3     dex
         bpl    crc1
         pla
         tax
         pla
         rts                    ;exit routine
;
crccal   asl    crc
         rol    crc+1
         asl    temp
         lda    crc
         adc    #0
         sta    crc
         lda    crc+1
         adc    #0
         sta    crc+1
         rts
;end of source fragment
-------- cut here

>>> Dan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP (arthur moore)
Subject: Re: Kermit info
Reply-To: bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:11:48 GMT

>            Everytime I download a program using kermit, it is
>            saved in SEQ. form. Does anyone know how to save to
>            PRG???

Dunno how to help you there, but if you have a sector editor, it is easy 
to change the filetype-
Start @ track 18, sector 1. Search for the filename in question. If dont 
see it, step to the next link until you do find it.
3 bytes before aa SEQ filename is the byte 129 (hex $81, onscreen a 
reversed lowercase 'a')
Change this byte to decimal 130 (hex $82).
Rewrite the sector and you now have a prg file.
Please, experiment on a backup disk.  Sector editors can be DANGEROUS if 
you are unfamiliar with them.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
Subject: Re: rs232 interface help needed
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:22:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep7.215917.1349@news.iastate.edu> jnelson@iastate.edu (Jeremy F Nelson) writes:
>	You might remember my flame of supra's rs232 interface.  However, i have gotten my hands on a few other rs232 interfaces and they have all failed.
>	I have tried all of these on an SX-64 and an old c=64
>
>	Interface                    sx-64         old c-64
>	
>	Supra Peak Modem Interface  No response   No response
>	Aprotek RS232 Interface       ***         No response
>	'deluxe RS232 Interface'    No response   No response
>	(company not known) 
>           *** computer failed to complete bootup when turned on.
>
>I had someone check the RS232 interfaces on both of these machines, and they appear to be ok coming from the computer, but dead coming out of the interface.
>Also, the signal coming out of the ISN port in the wall is also OK.

Just a note.  Some RS-232 interfaces will always fail on an SX-64.
It's because the 9VAC lines coming out of the user port on the SX-64 are
not equivalent,  circuit-wise,  to a regular C-64 user port.
I built my own RS-232 port from an old schematic in Compute!.  It works
fine on a regular C-64 and Vic-20.  No go on the SX-64.  It received
data just fine,  but wouldn't transmit.  The problem was that it wasn't
doing the -12v/+12v swing needed for RS-232 (it was more like 0v/+24v).

- Ted D. (drudetb@infonode.ingr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: duck@pembvax1.pembroke.edu
Subject: Re: Text Editors
Organization: Pembroke State University
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:51:04 GMT

> 
> [Query about text editors even mentioning BT-Pro! (ack!!!)]
> A while ago I read in Compute's Gazette of a new editor (it came
> out I guess four or five years ago) called the "Diamond Text
> Editor".  The magazine claimed it was written by one of their
> staff programmers, and that it was fully-featured.  It was
> also rather pricy, as I remember, something like $30 US. 
>  
> Anyone have any information on this?  Suggestions for more
> available text editors would also be helpful.  I usually
> swap between Paperclip, Bobsterm, Novaterm's, and Darkterm's
> text editors depending on my need.
>  

  I have a copy of Diamond Text Editor - the shareware version with some
features disabled... It however, is intended for programming of Basic Programs
although it looked to havve so many features reading through the manual I
wouldn't be suprised if it supported regular sequential files too. (I like
programming in basic, not an editor - Can you belive that?)

  I'll see about lzh'ing it and ul'ing to ccosun.caltech.edu for anon. ftp if
you want to take a look at it. (Prob. in about 3-4 days as I'm gonna be gone/
busy the next coupla days)...

> Mark Shepherd (dh158271@ccs.carleton.ca)
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From: massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Massive Onslaught)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 1541 disk drive cable
Keywords: 1541, disk, cable
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 02:07:52 EDT
Reply-To: massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us
Organization: The Veronica Lake Fan Club

> I am not sure if this is a standard cable or not, though I would suspect t
hat
> it isn't.  (Somebody tell me I'm wrong, please!)  At any rate, I am pretty
> sure you can get them from some of the C= mail order places like SSI and
> Software Hut.  The file mailorder.places in /pub/rknop/comp.sys.cbm on
> ccosun.caltech.edu has the addresses of a bunch of places (and I will get 
the
> Software Hut address in there by tonight, hopefully).

If I am reading this correctly, then Ron, you are incorrect.  The cable that
connects the computer to the drive and drive to drive are the same... 

It's a standard (well, Commodore 8 bit standard) 6 pin serial cable, and is
avialable at any C= deal, for about $6.. Although, the price varies on the
length, abviously...

-Massive
massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: jnelson@iastate.edu (Jeremy F Nelson)
Subject: modem wanted
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:57:39 GMT

I would like to buy a modem (2400) for the commodore 64.  It must:
			1.) work
			2.) be reasonably priced.
brand/type is irrelevant for now, as i can adapt.

email offers to me.

thanks.
					Jeremy
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lines
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Programming Question
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 06:35:31 GMT
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you

whd0675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:

>What is the equivalent of this in assembler instead of BASIC:

>	500 input#15,en,em$,et,es
>	510 if en>0 then print en,em$et,es:stop
>	520 return

chkin	=	$ffc6
clrchn	=	$ffcc
chrin	=	$ffcf
chrout	=	$ffd2

errbuff .byte   80              ; Buffer to store error message

        ldx     #15             ; Use #15 as standard input

	jsr	chkin

        ldy     #0
loop1   jsr     chrin
        sta     errbuff,y
        iny
        cmp     #$0d            ; Carriage return ends input
        bne     loop1

        jsr     clrchn          ; Clear standard input.

        lda     errbuff         ; Check for "00"
        cmp     #'0'
        bne     error
        cmp     errbuff+1
	bne	error

	rts			; All is okay, no error.

error	ldy	#0		; Print error message
	lda	errbuff,y
	jsr	chrout
	cmp	#$0d
	bne	error

	rts

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: dwm50923@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Dread Pirate Derek )
Subject: Zip Chip?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 06:55:24 GMT

There has been talk I have seen about an accelerator board for the 128. Could
anyone who knows about this write another article or e-mail me about what it
is how much (I think some people said $50) and where I can get it. O.k.?

					Thanks,
					Derek
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From: michaelp@amadeus.wr.tek.com (Michael Prusynski)
Newsgroups: tek.consumer,tek.misc,tek.wanted,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Commodore 64 help wanted
Keywords: monitor cable
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:39:17 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: pnw


I obtained a C64-c that works with a TV, but I am trying to get it
to work with a monitor.  I don't have the monitor cable or a pinout
on the connector.  Can someone send me the pinout info, or direct me
to a store where I might be able to find C64 cables?  Thanks!
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From: edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P. Piecewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Montgomery Grant
Date: 7 Sep 92 21:11:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dept of Math and CS

Has anyone on the net done business with Montgomery Grant out of Brooklyn,
New York before?  I'm curious to know how reputable their firm is.


 - Ed

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP (arthur moore)
Subject: 16 bit CRC source?
Reply-To: bbs-artmoore@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:01:05 GMT

Am looking for either 16-bit CRC source code (64/128) or the 
equation/tables.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Subject: Re: Epson 24 pin
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:30:25 GMT

rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) writes:

>Does anybody know anything about a supposed GEOS printer driver for Epson 24
>pin printers?  Assuming it is distributable, if you do have this, could you
>upload it to /pub/rknop/INCOMING at ccosun.caltech.edu (formerly
tybalt.caltech.edu)?

In fact, why don't I make that ANY 24 pin printer drivers.  If anyone has
freely distibutable 24 pin printer drivers handy, I would be very grateful if
you could upload them to ccosun.

In fact, heck, I'll take any GEOS printer drivers I can get.  I'll make a
special directory for them, if I seem to get enough.

-Rob
rknop@cco.caltech.edu
From: beman@terapin.com (Bemis Jarvis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Montgomery Grant
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:16:47 PST
Organization: BBS

In article <1992Sep7.211124.14665@cs.umb.edu>, edwardp@ra.cs.umb.edu (Edward P.
Piecewicz) writes:
>Has anyone on the net done business with Montgomery Grant out of Brooklyn,
>New York before?  I'm curious to know how reputable their firm is.
>
>
> - Ed
>
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I had a problem with them a bout 2 years ago they told me I needed some of ther
insurance to have some thing shipped when I received the good they did not work
I dont know how they are now I try not to make the same mistake twice 
        .s
From: rknop@cco.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: looking for Wrong Is Write
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:35:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

lu@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Zhengfang Lu) writes:

>As I haven't kept up with C= stuffage, what is this wrong_is_write
>thingy?

Write is Write is a utility written by Red Storm (Joe Buckley) to convert
ASCII files to geoWrite, geoWrite files to ASCII, geoWrite 1.3 files to
geoWrite 2.0 files, geoWrite 2.0 files to geoWrite 1.3 files, etc, etc.

There are actually a number of versions out there.  The latest version is
commercial and available, I believe, on one of his "Storm Disks."  I will post
one of the freely distributable versions to ccosun.

-Rob
rknop@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters)
Subject: looking for Wrong Is Write
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:21:35 GMT


Someone offered to put _Wrong Is Write_ up on ccosun or milton.

Please do so!  My poor old archie can't find it for me elsewhere.

Thanks
-Coyt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
From: cdminter@icaen.uiowa.edu (Corey D Minter)
Subject: compression format questions, and an idea
Summary: what are compression formats for...
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:02:41 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Keywords: compression

1) Where can i find the format for various cbm compressors
    (.arc, jj, gg, etc.)?

2) Recently i was reading up on some methods of compression when i
    thought up the following idea.  It has the advantage i think
    that it would be fast to decompress (though slow to compress),
    and it doesn't consume any memory with tables in either compression
    or decompression.  So i am asking for your comment/flame/opinion
    on this.  I'm not trying to propose some new standard (who wants
    one).

        1) store data as is until an ESCAPE character is read
        2) 2 ESCAPES signals that an ESCAPE should really be stored
        3) otherwise the ESCAPE is followed by:
               a) byte packed with NUMBER_OF_REPETITIONS and 
                  NUMBER_OF_BYTES - 4 (possibly nibblewise)
               b) word with address of data to be used (could be a
                  relative or absolute address

    I think this has some real advantages in that any patterns can be
captured and used to compress the file.  This is kind of like geoPaint
compression, but allows patterns to be repeated even when they aren't
adjacent.  I don't know if this is already done somewhere (look at 
question 1) and truth is maybe it wouldn't have much payoff?

BTW.  I haven't coded this.
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From: andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.protocols.misc
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: ZMODEM for the C64 (was Re: 16 bit CRC source?)
Organization: Zone4
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 12:24:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.202649.2064@ccu.umanitoba.ca> 
shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich) writes:
>
>First of all, it's a receive-only implementation.  
>
>The source is in 6502 assembly, formatted for cross-assembly under MS-DOS
>...has a serious bug with indirect branches); 
>it's far too big for PAL. 

Can you give numbers?  I've had assembly files which are far too big
for a single 'program' but once split into several there isn't a problem.
Not having looked at the zmodem implementation I don't know how far 
receive is from send, can you comment on the difficulty of completing
send as well?

>As far as making this a group project goes -- I'm game.  Perhaps someone 
>could set up a mailing list for all ZMODEM enthusiasts so we don't burden 
>the net with details on details on things like the ZSINIT frame.

Great - unfortunately I don't have the resources to start up a mailing
list right now.  That and I'm probably the one person who is interested
who has to pay for mail access (I run the system I have an account on ;),
news fortunately is free.

Actually right now the Zmodem discussion in c.s.cbm seems to be fairly 
relevant, and has the added effect of making the newsgroup look like
its active ;)  If anyone can setup a mailing list that'd be great.

Here is a _very_ unofficial list of people interested:
shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich)
massive@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Massive Onslaught)
kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad) ??maybe??
fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)

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