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Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff

From Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net>
Subject Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff
Newsgroups comp.os.cpm
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Date 2014-04-22 14:23 -0500

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jeffj:

Re: SB-180 (Ciarcia / Micromint)
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As you have a couple of SB-180s and as I've not dug mine out of storage yet... maybe you can answer a question about them?

One of the 64180 systems I bought back in the mid 80s had a great floppy utility for reading all sorts of floppy disks formats... I can't remember the name of the software but it came in a black and green package. I sure it was a 5 1/4 inch floppy system so I expect it was part of the Micromint bundled SB-180 deal.
Does that ring a bell?

Re: Hitachi HD64180s
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As much of a fan as I was of the 64180 back in the 80s, I'm now looking very seriously at doing a design with the eZ80... it seems like the perfect system for any modern Z80 CP/M system. I've already read about several systems done since around 2007 when it was a hotter topic on comp.os.cpm - I was glad to see there is current mention of it as I was beginning to think it wasn't going to be available for long (Mouser and Digi-Key didn't carry any stock of the latest Dev.Sys and had a minimum order of 3 required... that's a bad sign that availability of a processor is suspect). Luckily that seems not to be the case... just another distributor stocking annoyance.

Re: Wyse 50 Terminals
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Yeah that terminal was a nice package. I used a Wyse-50 as the man-machine interface on a document sorter for the govt and liked the terminal so much I bought one for myself. I wrote the code for that machine on a Ampro Little Board with the Wyse but somehow I failed to buy myself an Ampro Little Board too. I'll buy one someday - I have all the documentation from that project. :)

Since I found my Wyse-50 last week, I've found website on how to repair them I saw one article suggesting a replacement part. When the Wyse failed in the 80s I tried to find information like that on the BBS networks (Fidonet) but no luck. Guess information access has improved with the internet.

Re: Are dumb terminals still available?
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That brings up something I've been pondering as I reacquaint myself with the CP/M world after being missing in action since the 80s...

Are dumb terminals still available?

The ubiquitous PC often substitutes for dumb terminals (I've done that in the lab too). I wouldn't mind buying some new terminals for by HD64180 systems but I'd prefer they last longer than my Wyse did. I just don't want to hook my CP/M systems to a PC... seems wrong to be compounding the idiocy of overkill in having a fancy PC do simple jobs a CP/M system would better. :)


-Jay_in_Dallas

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Disposing of some CP/M stuff Gary Oliver <gtc@lightspeed.ca> - 2014-04-14 21:03 -0800
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Enrico Lazzerini <elazzerini@interfree.it> - 2014-04-16 22:19 +0200
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-21 18:43 -0500
    Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2014-04-21 22:18 -0400
      Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff bill@server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2014-04-22 14:57 +0000
        Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Enrico Lazzerini <elazzerini@interfree.it> - 2014-04-23 00:10 +0200
          Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff bill@server2.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2014-04-22 22:31 +0000
            Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Enrico Lazzerini <elazzerini@interfree.it> - 2014-04-23 23:01 +0200
              Xerox 820 (was Disposing of some CP/M stuff) jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2014-04-23 23:14 -0400
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-22 01:55 -0500
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-22 03:31 -0500
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-22 03:33 -0500
    Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net> - 2014-04-22 07:38 -0500
      Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2014-04-22 21:17 +0200
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-22 14:23 -0500
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-22 14:24 -0500
    SB180 (was: Disposing of some CP/M stuff) jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2014-04-23 23:30 -0400
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-23 09:33 -0500
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-24 12:14 -0500
    Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff retrogear <larrygr510@gmail.com> - 2014-04-24 13:39 -0700
    Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Rob Doyle <radioengr@gmail.com> - 2014-04-25 14:10 -0700
      Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Ole Christensen <ole2@oboj.net> - 2014-04-26 00:29 +0200
        Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff retrogear <larrygr510@gmail.com> - 2014-04-25 17:15 -0700
      Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2014-04-26 09:15 -0400
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Jay_in_Dallas <jay.c.box@earthlink.net> - 2014-04-28 10:41 -0500
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff V1050 <still.christ1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 23:51 -0700
  Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff V1050 <still.christ1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-02 23:53 -0700
    Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff Gary Oliver <gtc@lightspeed.ca> - 2014-05-03 13:15 -0800
      Re: Disposing of some CP/M stuff V1050 <still.christ1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-03 15:09 -0700

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