HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Real time clocks
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:14:32 GMT

I am aware of the following three real time clocks-

1. CorComp clock, as found on Triple Tech card (and I think also on a stand-
alone clock sidecar peripheral, though I have never seen one).  It opens
from TI BASIC or XB as a file name "CLOCK".

2. MBP clock, as found on the MBP clock/analog-digital converter.  It can be
read/written to from XB using CALL LOAD commands.

3. The HFDC clock, opens from TI BASIC/XB as a file name "TIME".
Does it use the same clock chip as one of the above?
I understand that this is a lousy clock.  It does not keep the time correctly
(and also has no battery backup).  One has to enter the time at each power-up
process -- really annoying.  Has anybody devised a battery poer backup for this
clock?

Unless I get it wrong for some reason, it seems to me that all the above clocks
can simultaneously co-exist in the PEBox and accessed without confusion, right?
At least from TI BASIC, that is...

There is also the P-GRAM card clock option.  Hardware-wise this is an MBP clock,
but there is a built-in software emulation of the CorComp clock in TI BASIC
(i.e., programs that access the CorComp clock chip directly will not recognize
the P-GRAM clock, only TI BASIC commands will).

Will anybody contribute information on other clocks?  We heard about the BWG
controller having a clock, and it seems like this is a relatively simple
thing to put an most any card.  (Though I have not heard of any inside the
console, except for a cheap $2 LCD digital clock that you can stick on
the console :-)  (That is like a friend's math coprocessor for the TI-99/4A,
which was a $5 solar powered little calculator that he attached to the
top of his console..  hehehe :-) :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: NCTIS report
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:12:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.135321.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>> 
>DD-controller to begin with as IBM did for its first PC, we would not have to
>live in the dark ages of SD.  Some TI users, perhaps the majority, are not
> 

The original IBM PC had single sided double density 16 sectors
(160K) drives!  And they were optional, it was possible to use cassettes
with it, too.
Only later revisions upgraded to double sided 320K and then 360K
DOS.    That is probably why you can still format single sided
with MS-DOS (FORMAT a:/1)...  TRIVIA!!!
>In both scenarios, it seems that TI being out the picture did more good than
>harm.  What might have been had TI introduced a successor to the 99/4A before
>  
I suppose it was easier to get the secret information after 1983
when the former Lubbock people were no longer bound by the    secrecy.
Also many harware projects    leaked out and were picked    up
by developers.
TI was working on DD controller, 9995 system (the 99/2 and 99/8)
and more.  But you are right, they did not want to give    users
more than the minimun (cf. DM-2 vs. DISKU !)
>> 
>>
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: Your favorite BBS
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:21:03 GMT

In article <21JAN199311562808@vx.cis.umn.edu>, daven@vx.cis.umn.edu (David Nieters) writes:
>I need to find a BBS that for my TI 99/4A.  There are none in the

Here is some info I have assembled-

1.

Call 301-292-1482 (BBS) located in Clinton, Md. I support the TI and PC
world and myself have TI items for sale on the board. Board is 2400 baud,
8N1, 24 hours a day.
(bob) Sysop


2.

Jesse Slicer
1101 Purdom Street
Olathe, KS 66061

Or, just call the BBS from 10pm-7am at (913) 764-6451 for a lot of
cool downloads.  Talk atcha l8r on.
Jess

3.

9640 News BBS                     (901)-368-0112  (Memphis, TN)
Radio Free Milwaukee              (414)-351-1823  (4 lines)
Obscured by clouds                (817)-731-1754  (Texas, I think Lubbock)
Echomania                         (618)-233-1659  (Belleville, IL)

So there are a few numbers for you...  Pretty sure that they have at least 2400
baud (some are HST modems - 9600+), and are running on clones using 8N1 parity.

        ____
         / o n y.
From: tstark@access.digex.com (Timothy M. Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: TI GPL Manual
Date: 28 Jan 1993 19:22:45 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: TI GPL Manual

daven@vx.cis.umn.edu (David Nieters) writes:
[all stuff deleted - nasty dumb inews rejected my article many times]

Hello David Nieters:

     I am very satisfied with your PS/TeX version of GPL manual. Now I have
TeX compiler at my work since I downloaded TeX software from internet. :)

-- Tim Stark

-- 
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837 North Van Dorn St       Portal: Timothy_M_Stark@cup.portal.com
Alexandria, Va. 22304-2723  TDD: (703) 212-9731 Pager: (703) 702-4078
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From: liles@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Clifton Liles 282-4736)
Subject: TI990 Parts
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:38:58 GMT


-- 
	Hi All
	Ok I know this is a long shot.  I was collecting TI990 parts, but I
found a better way. So does any body have a user for TI990 parts?  I have
memory (32K) boards, I/O boards and 900/4  and 99/12 CPUs, case/PS/cardcages,
more. 
If you have any desire for TI parts, lets talk. 
	Drop over any time ___
                              |  Cliff
<o o> Clifton Liles         Paramax (Unisys)      NASA         Houston TX
 /v\  Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion. liles@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
 =^=  (713) 283-4350 Work.  (713) 992-2039 home (Pearland, TX)
     This is not an advertisement, nor is it an endorsement of their product.
 *----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*____*----*----*----*
(. .)"The very best, and oldest, computer system built by man is Stonehenge.
 /^\  Built by the Druids, who didn`t die out, but went bankrupt trying to 
 -=-  debug the software."  



	Drop over any time ___
                              |  Cliff
<o o> Clifton Liles         Paramax (Unisys)      NASA         Houston TX
 /v\  Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion. liles@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
 =^=  (713) 283-4350 Work.  (713) 992-2039 home (Pearland, TX)
     This is not an advertisement, nor is it an endorsement of their product.
 *----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*____*----*----*----*
(. .)"The very best, and oldest, computer system built by man is Stonehenge.
 /^\  Built by the Druids, who didn`t die out, but went bankrupt trying to 
 -=-  debug the software."
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: for Henry
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:04:46 GMT

In article <00966F6B.A3B60FC0@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu writes:
>Henry:
>Now that I solved the     e-mail problems    with Roland Meier
>and    others, I cannot get mail to you...  Can you provide
>an alternate address that perhaps will work from here?
>Please try to e-mail me if you would...
>Thanks.


I have received your message.  I will try to respond, please let me know if you
receive it.  Thanks!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Information needed
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:11:44 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <1jiuv1INNspp@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, meier@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Roland Meier) writes:
> In article <00966DA4.84C3FFA0@GOMEZ.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu writes:
>> >All available controllers for the ti have a western digital controller, the
>> >original ti has a WDC 1771, Corcomp, Atronic and BWG a 1773 and Myarc (I think)
>>                                                   ^^^
>>                                                    ^
>>                                                    |
>>                                            
>>                                               WHAT IS THIS?
>>                                               -------------
> It is a german double density controller with a built in clock, developed and
> built by Michael Becker and Harald Glaab. (I own one)
  
Roland, do the Atronic and BWG controllers have any special features not found
on the other controllers available?  Are the Atronic and BWG just clones of
the Corcomp card?  BTW, the MYARC floppy controller uses either the 1770 or the
1772.  Early Corcomp units did use the 2793.
 
Jeff White  jhwhit01@ulkyvx.bitnet
 
p.s.: The MYARC HFDC uses a Standard Microsystem Corporation part -- UDC 9234.  
The WHT SCSI has a Logic 53C80 on it, which is compatible with the Zilog 53C80,
the AMD 53C80A, and others.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Subject: Re: ti pc?
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:00:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.165930.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, yscroggins@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>I have recently become the proud owner of some type of pc compatible ti
>computer.  It has two 360k 5 1/4 drives, 5 pc/xt expansion slots(one of which

This is an MS-DOS computer, but NOT IBM    compatible.  It was
a real gem for its time.  No longer supported by TI.  In the most
part requires special TI hardware and software.  Monitor and
keyboard non-standard.  Some users have installed    cards to
enhance IBM PC    compatibility.

This question comes    up here every so often.  The best advice
here- when you buy used computers, better    be sure    what   you
are getting and what the market value is.
>I tried to connect a mfm controller and drive, but got no response.
>the floppies connect to the mother board, and righ by where they connect,
>
>
>
From: ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: CorComp
Date: 21 Jan 93 08:32:15 GMT
Organization: none
Originator: ti6hk@ap04.cip3a.tu-harburg.de

To cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu

I wrote an upgrade of the DSR-Eprom for the CorComp-Card. Everytime
you reset the system the time is transfered to the HFDC. The MDMV is also
slightly modified. There is no question for the time.


To Winfried

Your are still right, a lot of german guys own GRAM-Cards but only fast
32 Kbyte SRAMs inside the console. (My TI-files still reside on an IBM here
in the institute, I hope the near future will change this nasty situation.) 

Henry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Your favorite BBS
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:07:57 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Louisville

In article <21JAN199311562808@vx.cis.umn.edu>, daven@vx.cis.umn.edu (David Nieters) writes:
> I need to find a BBS that for my TI 99/4A.  There are none in the
> St. Paul area.  I've discontinued my subscription to Compuserve.
> Can you help me my either posting or E-mailing me a list of some
> of the BBS's you use?  For now, I'm mainly interested in downloading
> files.
 
David, I will repost my Delphi signup message.  It is a pay service somewhat
like Compuserve, but it is cheaper and gets most new programs for the TI that
are not commercial rather quickly.
 
Jeff White   jhwhit01@ulkyvx.bitnet
From: meier@rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Roland Meier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: Information needed
Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:50:13 GMT
Organization: TU Darmstadt
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rbhp1.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de

In article <1993Jan21.081144.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, jhwhit01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
> Roland, do the Atronic and BWG controllers have any special features not found
> on the other controllers available?  Are the Atronic and BWG just clones of
> the Corcomp card?

The BWG controller has a clock, and its DSR was planned to handle creation and
modification dates and times like the geneve does, but this version has not been
released so far. Beside that and their reliability and quality neither the
Atronic nor the BWG controller have any special features.
They are NOT clones of the CorComp card, neither according hardware (e.g. 4-bit
RAM against 8-bit) nor software (e.g. formatting with track-skew).
Christopher Winter explained these and other differences in his (german - sorry
Joseph) publication Diskinfo, the only copy of which in the states has Lutz
Winkler.

-- 
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Nik.-Schwarzkopfstr. 10          or meier@rbhp56.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: 152kang@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Help needed. How do you enter here ????
Date: 28 Jan 93 00:07:49 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Hi,
anyone help me ?

I'd like to know how I connect this newgroup via SUN.
I am connecting via VAX right now.

If you know the way of connecting through SUN, please let me know.

You can post your answer or reply to kim@cs.wmich.edu.

Thanks in advance,
Kiyoung Kim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk (karl)
Subject: Boot Tapes on a SPARC
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL2]
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 262
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:06:55 +0000

Is it possible to make a SunOS boot tape for a Sparc IPC/IPX, so that I can
reload the OS without requiring a CD?  I know that this is no longer supported,
so I guess my question is does anyone know the format of the boot tapes that
it would boot from?

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)
Subject: SLIP on Suns
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:05:39 GMT

	
Does anybody know if it is possible to install SLIP on SUN OS without
doing a recomple of the kernal?

-- 

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From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
Subject: [SunSolve] Silly: Why doesn't my mouse work ?
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:22:54 GMT
Reply-To: peter@micromuse.co.uk
Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London

Just got the latest copy of SunSolve on CD (1.2)... marketing strikes back.
Take a look at the cover, and you will notice why the two women are trying
to use the SunSolve product:

They can't get the mouse to work, and the answer is: there is no mouse mat...

sigh, just thought I would share that profound news with you all.

---
Peter Galbavy
Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
Phone: +44 71 352 7774		E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Are SUN CDs still ufs or are the new ones ISO9660????
Keywords: SUN CD ufs ISO9660
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 22:24:51 GMT


>	Are new Sun CDs still ufs or are they ISO9660. I know that
>	old sun CDs are ufs,

The layered products that I've seen are *@#Q$*@# UFS; the OS ones that I've
seen are ISO.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill)
Subject: Historical specs/prices needed ASAP
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:26:48 GMT

I need prices and basic specs like CPU chip/speed, RAM, "MIPS"/SPECmarks for Sun
machines sold in the early-mid 80's, e.g., Sun 1, Sun 2, and Sun 3.  I also need
to roughly what years they were available.

I'm making a graph of workstation technology price/performance over the past 10
years.  Please respond by Wednesday (1/27) morning, EST.

Thanks.

-- 
Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)                 Computers should work the way beginners
Martin Marietta Energy Systems           expect them to, and one day they will.
Workstation Support                                                -- Ted Nelson
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Solaris 2 vs Windows NT: Sun is losing the desktop on price
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:42:21 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I thought ALL sun4 line HAD to have FPUs, and that no-fpu stuff was
>only forthe sun3 line.

Nope.  Some 4/110s were sold without an FPU, and, for a while, the 4/280
I had at Sun didn't have an FPU, becasue the FPU it came with was
defective.

The Sun-3s had several different compiler options for no-FPU machines,
machines with a 68881, machines with the Sun FPA, and for programs that
should figure out at run time which option they had.

For SPARC, Sun took the approach that:

	1) all floating-point hardware should implement (mostly) the
	   same instruction set (a few instructions have been added, and
	   some have disappeared, over time, although I don't know
	   whether any other than the old 96-bit extended precision
	   ones, which Sun's software didn't use, disappeared);

	2) on machines that don't have the hardware, the software must
	   catch the illegal instruction traps caused by attempts to
	   execute the floating-point instructions, and must emulate
	   them in software - the SunOS kernel does that;

so there isn't a "software floating point" compiler option.
From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Solaris 2 vs Windows NT: Sun is losing the desktop on price
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:18:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>Then again, it may be one of the 4/110s that went out the door without
>floating-point hardware....

eh? I thought ALL sun4 line HAD to have FPUs, and that no-fpu stuff was
only forthe sun3 line. I have the standard FPU thingamajig.. Just don't
have the nice WEITEK chips.

-- 
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P.Anthony, "The Colo(u)r of her panties"      |philb@soda.berkeley.edu
From: twp@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au (Tony Payne CSD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Amusing Sun Anecdote
Date: 22 Jan 93 02:10:00 GMT
Organization: Co-Cam Computer Group, Oz

I'm surprized no one has mentioned the trap which every novice C programmer
comes accross.

You write a little test program which does something like display "Hello World".
Naturally enough, you call your little program 'test'. You run the program and
nothing happens....

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   ,-_|\     Tony Payne                   Phone:  +61 3 286 3480
  /     \    Co-Cam Computer Group        Fax:    +61 3 417 7857
  \_,-._/___ Abbotsford, Melbourne        Email:  twp@mel.cocam.oz.au
       v     AUSTRALIA                    DoD # 3764 - MRAA # 1453
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: reitsma@prl.philips.nl (Reitsma)
Subject: Automount - How to get rid of '/tmp_mnt' ?
Originator: reitsma@prl.philips.nl
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:44:57 GMT


Hello,

Our site is using the automount feature (under SunOS 4.1.x). Without doubt a 
nice feature, although not every part in the system seems to understand 
its implications:

When asking the current working directory (pwd, getwd()) the full path is
returned, including the '/tmp_mnt' prefix. This is very annoying and may
(does) lead to problems when using the pathname, because 5 minutes later 
the path will be invalid. IMHO the getwd call should strip the /tmp_mnt 
stuff, so that the automounter becomes transparent. So if my directory
/home/reitsma is automounted under /tmp_mnt, pwd should return 
/home/reitsma/... and not /tmp_mnt/home/reitsma...

We can adapt our own tools and replace getwd() by getwd_smart(), but tools
like the C (cross) compiler (which can generate full pathnames for the 
source level debugger) cannot be modified.

Is there anyone out there, who recognizes the problem and knows a solution?

Thanks,

Jaap Reitsma (reitsma@prl.philips.nl)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: toelle@uenics.evansville.edu (Chad Toelle)
Subject: Tape drives of 3 GB or higher & price?
Organization: University of Evansville
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:15:01 GMT


I would like to know the price on a tape drive and tapes that hold 3.0
Gigabytes of data or more.  Someone respond if they have any
information on this topic.
-- 
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4216 S. St. Philip Rd                               - or -
Mt. Vernon, IN 47620                       uunet!evansville.edu!toelle
   (812) 985-3222
From: gohel@zeus.csee.usf.edu (Himanshu Gohel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Locating .au Files
Date: 17 Jan 93 19:58:43 GMT
Reply-To: gohel@csee.usf.edu
Organization: U of South Florida, Dept. of Computer Science

Scott Sivi (Adobe) - there was no return address on your post!
I apologize for the wasted bandwidth.

A recently started FTP site: sunsite.unc.edu has a lot of stuff
for the Suns, including some audio files you're looking for.

What I do is I download sound files used by the Amiga (which
I have at home) and then use `iff2ulaw' to convert the Amiga
IFF format to Sun audio files.  But `iff2ulaw' runs on the
Amiga, so that is a requirement...For the amiga sound files,
check out: wuarchive.wustl.edu somewhere in systems/amiga/audio

-- 
Himanshu Gohel, Gohel@csee.usf.edu
U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620-3140
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: jvmuelle@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (J.-V. Mueller)
Subject: MIDI Soft-/Hardware
Organization: Inst. f. Informatik, TU Braunschweig, FRG
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:32:01 GMT

The title says it all: Is there any Sequencer/Library/... Software
for the Sparcs. The Hardware should be no problem (Yamaha TG-100) or
a Mac interface!? Why should Mac/Atari/PC and NeXT take it all?

-- 
Joerg-Volker Mueller		| 3300 Braunschweig, Germany
Institut f. Programmiersprachen	| phone: +49 531 391-3282
	und Informationssysteme	| fax: +49 531 391-8111
TU Braunschweig			| email: jvmuelle@ips.cs.tu-bs.de
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