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Re: Back after almost 30 years?

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Sorry I can't help you on your DSB-4/6 project.  I am such a fanboy of 
your and Steve Hirsch's work on the PCPI Applicard.  I have all of your 
published documents, and have CP/M and NZCOM booting on my CF3000 flash 
drive on my Apple //e.

Good luck on your DSB endeavors.

Eric
KE5EN


On 7/25/25 3:49 PM, John D. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2025, ECNeilson wrote:
> 
>> Is this the same John D. Baker of Applicard fame?  I built the high speed
>> serial daughter card for the Applicard, originally based on schematics and
>> data from an old website you had.  I did a how-to blog on it a few years back.
>> Best CP/M card ever made!
>> https://planemo.org/2012/07/29/high-speed-serial-port-for-the-apple-ii-pcpi-applicard/
> 
> After looking at the above link, yes, that's me!  When I finished school
> back in 1996, I lost access to Usenet newsgroups (or it was ridiculouly
> cumbersome to even _start_ a newsreader).  I was looking around and found
> out about "eternal-september.org" and that's one account I didn't mind
> setting up.
> 
> Still have all the gear--it's just blocked by all manner of other stuff
> so I can't actually get to it to operate any of it.  I was recently
> disassembling the copies of ZMP I customized for the Davidge DSB 4/6 as
> the one for the designated modem port _didn't_ use interrupt-driven
> receive while the ones for the nominal printer port and aux port _did_,
> but my "ZMP Install Disk" didn't have their sources--only the earlier
> polled-I/O versions.  The interrupt-driven ones must be on 8-inch
> floppies, but I don't have room to set up any of the 8-inch drives.
> Likewise, my QTerm disk for the Davidge must be 8-inch as I only have
> the final executables on the hard disk and the one for the modem port
> doesn't do interrupt-driven receive while the ones for the printer and
> aux port do.
> 
> There's only one public-facing web server I have access to, but I
> never put any of my older stuff up there before.  I've been working
> on fixing it up and hope to get it there soon-ish.
> 
> 
> 

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Back after almost 30 years? "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@spike.technoskunk.fur> - 2025-07-19 20:08 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@consolidated.net> - 2025-07-19 20:49 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 15:01 -0500
    Re: Back after almost 30 years? "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@consolidated.net> - 2025-07-25 15:49 -0500
      Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 19:36 -0500
        Re: Back after almost 30 years? Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-07-31 10:19 -0400
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 15:07 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 15:08 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-07-31 10:17 -0400

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