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From: messmer@kraiti.cc.lut.fi (Willi Messmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Shugart 8" 800/801 jumper settings ??
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:45:38 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

I've three different controller types, each with different board layout.
Two with 40pin cntrlchip, one without (punch of TTLs & others)

I'd need to know the purpose of different jumpersetting on these controllers,
and how to chain correctly two diff. controllers ???

Thanks,
Willi
messmer@lut.fi
Xref: sparky comp.os.cpm:1543 rec.arts.int-fiction:1147 comp.sys.cbm:5334
From: jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,rec.arts.int-fiction,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Infocom
Date: 6 Jan 1993 18:00:31 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Summary: What in the world happened to Zork & Co. ?


Some time ago I read in rec.arts.int-fiction about Infocom, but unfortunately
I don't remember much of it.  I know that Infocom was bought out and then
shut down.  What is the legal status of Infocom games?  When (if ever)
will they be available via public domain sources?  Are there still sources
for purchasing them?  Thanks.

Susan


-- 
Susan B. Farmer     farmer@cs.utk.edu     Lady Jerusha Kilgore     
I can't even find time to clean house and you want me to come up with a .sig?
     And now she wants to go back to grad school after 14 years .....  
     We'll let her out when the delusion passes.
From: jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: diseased Kaypro/Wordstar
Date: 6 Jan 1993 18:02:55 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - CS Department
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu
Summary: semi-random disk problems


I have a Kaypro 4'84, and I'm using Wordstar 4.0, and I have a problem
somewhere.  I keep looking part of 'large-files'.  What's happening is that
parts of files are disappearing only to be replaced with other (duplicate)
parts of the same file.

The first times it happened, I was working on a large file on a full disk,
and I just assumed that when I had tried to save, and there wasn't room, that
Wordstar got lost when it stopped to tell me there wasn't any room and I had 
to delete stuff to continue.  The latest time it happened, I was working on
a much smaller file on a virtually empty disk.  (and to make it worse,
I was dutifully saving every so often, so there was no backup file to
get the data from.  I lost about 2-3 hours of work.)

My husband thinks it's a disk drive problem.  I'm not so sure.  I don't 
seem to have the problem with pip, for instance.  Any suggestions?  Ideas?
I do re-build Wordstar ever so often.  I use it all the time, and the disk
"goes bad" every so often.

All help appreciated.

Thanks
Susan

  

-- 
Susan B. Farmer     farmer@cs.utk.edu     Lady Jerusha Kilgore     
I can't even find time to clean house and you want me to come up with a .sig?
     And now she wants to go back to grad school after 14 years .....  
     We'll let her out when the delusion passes.
From: rwyble@schunix.uucp (Richard J. Wyble)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Can Kaypro's be made to read MSDOS floppies?
Date: 7 Jan 93 02:57:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

haworth@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dwight A. Haworth) writes:
: Rick.Bronson@mixcom.mixcom.com  writes:
: > Hello,
: >   Is there a program for Kaypro II so that it can read MS-DOS
: > floppies?  Also - what is a good modem program that will run
: > at least a 1200 baud modem on a Kaypro II?
: >   Thanks
: >   Rick
: 
: The answer to your read MS-DOS problem depends on the kind of drives you
: have in your Kaypro II.  If you have double-sided double density drives,
: you should be able to use some of the public domain or commercial software
: that is available.  If you have single-sided drives, you may be out of
: luck.  I use Compat in my 4/84 with no problems.
: 
: Dwight Haworth
: haworth@cwis.unomaha.edu
:  

There is a commercial package called Uniform -- been around for years,
should still be in business. If you can't find it, ask and I'll look
up the manual. Be sure that you don't pick up a second-hand copy for a
different Kaypro, e.g., K10, as there are different versions of
Uniform for them.
-- 
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 rwyble@schunix.uucp                         Richard J. Wyble
 schunix!rwyble@transfer.stratus.com         Worcester, Massachusetts
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,rec.arts.int-fiction,comp.sys.cbm,rec.games.int-fiction
From: pds@lemming.webo.dg.com (Paul D. Smith)
Subject: Re: Infocom
Date: 07 Jan 93 14:56:00 GMT
To: jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER)
Organization: NSDD/ONSD, Data General Corp., Westboro, MA
Followup-To: rec.games.int-fiction

[] Regarding Infocom;
[] jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER) writes:

    jf> Some time ago I read in rec.arts.int-fiction about Infocom,
    jf> but unfortunately I don't remember much of it.  I know that
    jf> Infocom was bought out and then shut down.  What is the legal
    jf> status of Infocom games?  When (if ever) will they be
    jf> available via public domain sources?  Are there still sources
    jf> for purchasing them?  Thanks.

FYI, rec.games.int-fiction is the proper place for questions like
this: rec.arts.int-fiction is for discussion of the art of writing
interactive fiction.  Followups are directed appropriately :)

Copyrights on Infocom games are still held.  You cannot get them in
the public domain and I don't expect that to change in the near
future.  The sources are even less available (you can't even illegally
copy them from your friends ;).

Mediagenic has released both "Lost Treasures of Infocom", with 20
Infocom games, for IBM PC-compatibles, Macintoshes, and Amiga systems.
Maps for each game are included, and a book containing photocopies of
(almost) all the relevant bits from the packages, and another booklet
containing the complete hints for each game.  The hints booklet is
*very* poorly done, with spelling and formatting errors abounding.
But I never use hints so I don't care :)

"Lost Treasures of Infocom II", with 11 more games, has been released
for IBM PC-compatibles and Macintoshes.  This is much more
professionally-done package (I guess the success of LTOI I prompted
them to put a little more work into LTOI II :), but it doesn't contain
any hints, just maps and a book of package materials.  It also
contains a card where you can order "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" for
$9.95+S&H (IBM PC version only).

This means all except 4 (I think) Infocom games are currently
available.

I will be re-posting my Infocom game data table to
rec.games.int-fiction momentarily; it has much of the same info as is
contained in Paul David Doherty's fact sheet posted here recently, but
in a more compact, table form.

Email me if you want a copy via email.
--

                                                                paul
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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Can Kaypro's be made to read MSDOS floppies?
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:40:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1993Jan05.155832.15171@mixcom.com>, Rick.Bronson <Rick.Bronson@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
>   Is there a program for Kaypro II so that it can read MS-DOS
> floppies? 

Yes. MicroSolutions has (or at least used to have) a Kaypro version. I've got
it on my Kaypro 10 and it works fine.
-- 

Roger Ivie                      "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
ivie@cc.usu.edu                  It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
                                 into mutants!"
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Saturday, 9 Jan 1993 10:59:01 MST
From: <CXKPV@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: What is the legal status of CP/M?
 <1993Jan6.011121.2764@wixer.cactus.org>

Does anyone know of any "z-nodes" (or other cpm bbss) in the 602 area code?
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: Misc CP/M and S-100 questions, if you please.
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:02:27 GMT

You don't have to keep the system disk in A:.  You just need a bootable disk
with a copy of PIP or similar utility (such as NSWP or COPY; I get most of my
programs from GEnie, but you can probably ftp them from simtel20.wsmr.army.mil).
On most CP/M systems you make a boot disk by running SYSGEN.

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com


Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: "mark wheeler" <mark.wheeler@canrem.com>
Subject: anyone familiar with micr
Reply-To: "mark wheeler" <mark.wheeler@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 10 Jan 93 14:40:00 EST

HC> 2) Will the accounting program run on Dos?...

Henry, it's likely that source changes would have to be made.

Best way I can think of running this program, since your friend
is thinking of porting it to a 386 machine, is to get a copy of
Simeon Cran's MYZ80 CP/M emulator for DOS (286 or above) systems.
Then just run have your friend continue running it as a CP/M
application, but on his DOS machine. It should run faster under
CP/M emulation on a 386 than it did on the old machine.
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
From: rwyble@schunix.uucp (Richard J. Wyble)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: diseased Kaypro/Wordstar
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:01:26 GMT
Organization: SCHUNIX Public Access Unix for Worcester County, MA, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

jfarmer@cs.utk.edu (JOHN FARMER) writes:
: 
: My husband thinks it's a disk drive problem.  I'm not so sure.  I don't 
: seem to have the problem with pip, for instance.  Any suggestions?  Ideas?
: I do re-build Wordstar ever so often.  I use it all the time, and the disk
: "goes bad" every so often.
: 

Hmn. It's been *many* moons since I used WS4 on a CP/M Kaypro. But I
*did* use it, and I recall numerous strange quirks. The code simply
did not seem to be mature in the manner of WS3.x. Though I did not
experience what you describe, the red flag above is that "the disk
"goes bad" every so often." This simply does not happen unless there
are problems.

Suggestion: start over with a fresh working disk and see what happens.
-- 
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 rwyble@schunix.uucp                         Richard J. Wyble
 schunix!rwyble@transfer.stratus.com         Worcester, Massachusetts
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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: schriste@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Christensen)
Subject: Wither S-100 HD controllers?
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:11:34 GMT

Hi All...

	Tonight I finally rolled up my sleaves and looked through
the 8" disks I got with my CCS S-100 CP/M system. I found copies
of BIOS code that the previous owner had modified to fix some bugs
in the CCS BIOS. Anyway, I was thinking ... Gee, it sure would be
nice to have a hard drive with my system (especially since I am
thinking about getting ZCPR running).

	Does anyone know where I can get a hard drive controller
for the S-100 bus? Do they take some kind of industry standard
HD? (I heard MFM...).

	On a side note, has anyone configured ZCPR with a CCS
floppy card and CPU? I think there are some BIOS mods needed,
and would sure appreciate someones experience.

	Also, I have a couple of H-19 terminals that are taking
up space. How much could I expect to get for these (they both work
great).

	Thanks for your patience. Some of you "old time" CP/M-ers
are probably chuckling, remembering back when you first modified your
BIOS. It's funny - at work we work on state-of-the art DSP processors
on the latest DEC Vaxes--- yet there is some simple attraction to
the S-100 bus and CP/M. Probably has to do with the fact that I
am impressed what can be done in less than 64K...

	Any conversation would be helpful...
		Steven

-- 
Steven V. Christensen
schriste@uceng.uc.edu
From: daveg@misty.sara.fl.us (Dave Goodman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Cp/m laptop for sale.
Date: 4 Jan 93 21:26:36 GMT
Organization: The Center for Creative Confusion, Sarasota, FL

For Sale:

NEC PC-8500 CP/M laptop computer.  80 x 25 LCD screen, Cp/m 2.2
in ROM.  Powered by battery (C cells) or AC (adapter included).
Serial and parallel ports.  

The following software is in ROM:

  WordStar
  Calc (spreadsheet)
  Communications
  Personal Filer (a small personal database)

The unit contains a built-in 300 baud modem (whee!) but the included
communications program can also drive the serial port at up to 9600
baud.

Also included are two 128k PC-8508A ram cartridges, and all manuals,
in original packing material.

Asking $175.

--

Dave Goodman
daveg@misty.sara.fl.us
...uunet!misty!daveg
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen)
Subject: .lbr???? Anyone?
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 22:01:14 GMT

As I'm a complete newbie in cp/m ... I'd like to know what the extension
.lbr is? I guess it's some kind of archive but I haven't had the luck to
find an unarchiverfor it. Where can I get it (ftp)? And which sites have
a lot of cp/m stuff?

Thanks in advance

/Carsten
u920659@daimi.aau.dk

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From: Rick.Bronson@mixcom.mixcom.com (Rick.Bronson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Can Kaypro's be made to read MSDOS floppies?
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:58:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.

Hello,
  Is there a program for Kaypro II so that it can read MS-DOS
floppies?  Also - what is a good modem program that will run
at least a 1200 baud modem on a Kaypro II?
  Thanks
  Rick

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Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: schriste@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Christensen)
Subject: Attn: California Computer Systems / ZCPR3
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:37:22 GMT

Hi,
	I have a CCS system with the CCS CPU and the CCS FDC. I want
to put ZCPR3 on it, but am having problems modifying my BIOS to do
the necessary initialization. The documentation mentions that I may
get some help from others who have put ZCPR3 on their CCS systems.

	So, I am wondering if anyone has ZCPR3 on their CCS systems,
and could maybe help me out. I think all I need to have is the
CCBIOS.ASM file, appropriately modified for ZCPR3. Can anyone help
me?

	Intrigued by CP/M & S-100,
		Steven Christensen

-- 
Steven V. Christensen
schriste@uceng.uc.edu
From: ahm@spatula.rent.com (Andreas Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: .lbr???? Anyone?
Date: 9 Jan 93 22:41:50 GMT
Reply-To: ahm@spatula.rent.com (Andreas Meyer)
Followup-To: comp.os.cpm
Organization: Meyer residence, Dunellen NJ

In comp.os.cpm, u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen) writes:
> As I'm a complete newbie in cp/m ... I'd like to know what the extension
> .lbr is? 

.LBR is a LiBRary file

> I guess it's some kind of archive but I haven't had the luck to
> find an unarchiver for it. Where can I get it (ftp)? And which sites have
> a lot of cp/m stuff?

What you need is one of the LU (Library Utility) variants, like
LU.COM - I've been using NULU152.COM for quite a while now.
Check any of the SIMTEL mirror sites for CP/M software.

Cheers,
Andy
-- 
 Andreas Meyer, N2FYE      ahm@spatula.rent.com     "Been there. Did that."
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: gregh@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Greg Holdren)
Subject: RCPM BBS list (11/92)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 14:01:09 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

 I have a CPM BBS list maintained by Ian Cottrell dated 11/92.
 For those of you asking for "where can I get CP/M progs from",
 well here is a good source by modem.

 Send Email and I'll send the list. If I get a ton of message then
 I'll post to the group if no one objects.

 Greg Holdren
 (916)785-7481

 gregh@hprnd.rose.hp.com
 gregh@hprnls1c.rose.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: chungh@armory.enet.dec.com (Henry Chung)
Subject: Anyone familiar with Micro 5 Turbo 1000 system running MP/M ?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date:  9 JAN 93 09:25:34    


Hi,
  Is anyone familiar with  Micro 5 Turbo system ?  Does the company
still exist today ?  Since I am not very CP/M literate, maybe some of
you CP/M gurus can help me out.
One of my friends' company has a Micro 5 System running an acounting
program (written in MBASIC). The system is a multi-user system and 
has 24 serial ports on the back.  Since the system is very old, he
is afraid the system may die someday and lose all of his data.
He would like to replace the machine with a standard 386 compatiable PC
The Questions that I have are: 

1) Can I replace the MP/M with another multi-user operating system
   such as DR. DOS mult-user version or DesQview running on top of 
   regular DOS ?
2) Will the accounting program run on DOS ?  (I do have the
   source code if I need to make minor modification to the program.)

Thank you very much.  
/Henry
From: pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu (Preston Bricker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Misc CP/M and S-100 questions, if you please.
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:49:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Dept. of Radiotherapy; Loyola Univ. Med Ctr
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <C0IysG.Ao9@uceng.uc.edu>, schriste@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Christensen) writes...
>Hi,
>	I have some CP/M and S-100 questions, so I thought I'd make
>one post with many questions. I'd appreciate if anyone who knows the
>answers could send me mail.
> 
>1. Re: Warm Booting. I know some programs expect that the OS will
>	be "warm booted" when they end. Does that mean I have to keep
>	my system disk in drive A:?
> 

Yes, you must keep a boot disk in the A: drive.  If you boot off a hard
drive that's not a problem.  Another alternative I've used is to install
a RAM disk, SYSGEN the RAM disk and then overlay the BIOS so the RAM disk
becomes drive A:.  You should also extend the device select jumpers
of the floppy drive out to the back so you can change it from A to C,
or just hang a third floppy drive on your system.

>2. Can I ever copy a file from a second disk to a third disk by starting
>	PIP and then removing my system disk and putting on the two disks
>	in A: and B:?  I've tried this and my system locks up. I can PIP
>	from B: to my system disk in A: and vice versa. I would really like
>	it if I didn't have to keep the CP/M disk in A:
> 

PIP is not smart enough to allow swapping diskettes.  Use SWEEP or
NSWEEP instead.

>3. I recently got some space S-100 cards. I would like to hear from
>	anybody who has the same hardware for some interface questions.
> 
>	a. HDC-2001 Hard Disk Interface from Advanced Digital Corp -
>		what kind of HD's will this work with? Can anybody
>		share BIOS modifications, maybe for a CCS system?
> 
>	b. Advanced Digital "Super SIX" single board S-100 computer.
>		Any comments?
> 
>	c. A 48 TPI 5 1/4" disk - has anyone interfaced one with
>		a CCS FDC?
> 

Sorry, can't help here.  I'd love a S-100 hard disk controller myself.

Preston Bricker
pbricker@rdth2.rdth.luc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: weberj@dia.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Weber)
Subject: Re: Osborne1 disk translation help
Organization: Informatik, Uni Stuttgart, W.Germany
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 09:17:22 GMT

In article <1465.544.uupcb@ehbbs.gwinnett.com> curt.tucker@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Curt Tucker)  writes:
>
>I'm trying to get some advice on how to translate some old SSSD
>5.25" Osborne1 CPM disks to MS-DOS readable ones.
>
If the Osborne is still alive you can format double densitiy discs, too
and copy the single densitiy discs to the double density discs.
Osborne DD discs can be read by a PC (e.g. with ZSIM20).

-- 

Juergen G. Weber
Student am Institut fuer Informatik
University of Stuttgart - Germany
From: grichard@swimming.cis.ohio-state.edu (Golden Richard III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Checkpointing Unix processes
Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:40:36 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


I'm looking for facilities which allow processes under Unix to be
checkpointed and restored.  Restrictions on the behavior of the
processes and questions of efficiency are of less importance than the
facility actually working.  

Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated.  Email, please,
and I'll summarize if there's interest.

-- 
Golden Richard III             OSU Dept. of Computer and Information Science
grichard@cis.ohio-state.edu                                   (614) 292-0056
From: shapiro@corto.inria.fr (Marc Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: measurement methodology inquiry
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:28:02 GMT
Organization: INRIA -- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique -- Rocquencourt, France
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


Measuring our software is a key activity in the OS area.  A lot of us
seem to do measurement in a very ad-hoc way: "let's just iterate this
one thousand times against a stop-watch and divide the total time ny
one thousand."  I remember from the remote days when I was studying
physics that measurement is a serious activity that's supposed to be
backed up by a methodology.  In addition to the theory of whatever they
are looking at, physicists have a theory of measurement itself
(metrology).

I am trying to find out what work has been done along these lines in
the area of measuring software systems, especially operating systems
(let's ignore the distributed component if you will).  I am especially
interested in textbooks, if any exist, on how to prepare and perform
measurements in time and space: what to look for, what to avoid, how to
minimize probe effects, how to compute error intervals, etc.  A
secondary interest is descriptions of relevant benchmarks and their
usage.  Not of interest are measurements of any particular system,
unless the article also contains methodological considerations of
general interest.

Please e-mail to me.  I will summarize to this newsgroup.

-- 
						Marc Shapiro

M. Shapiro, INRIA, B.P. 105 Rocquencourt, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France.
Tel.: +33(1)39-63-53-25; fax: +33(1)39-63-53-30; e-mail: marc.shapiro@inria.fr
From: pbg@cs.brown.edu (Peter Galvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: OSP contact persons?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 03:07:49 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

There should be an address in the OSP manuals (you can get them from
your Addison Wesley salesperson).  Failing that, try

kifer@sbcs.sunysb.edu

					      --Peter