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All -- Back in this thread (DEC-10: connecting remote sites and usage in 20HAL) from a few years ago, I mentioned reverse engineering an old tool used during the development of MS-DOS 1 and the IBM-PC (described on my web site here). I've made much progress since then (but missed the...

Did some additional work tonight. I read that you also need to install the cups-bsd package on the RPI to enable lpd/lpr. Not sure why that's not installed with CUPS, but whatever. I restarted the service, but no success. Here are some pictures. The first, you can see the jobs and that they're...

Wireshark revealed a few things. I can see the request going from the SparcStation to the CUPS server, its acknowledged, then it dies. So, I setup another printer on my Mac which uses Bonjour and IPP to communicate with the CUPS server. Seems like it's very sensitive to which driver is selected...

These printers should support both IPP and LPD, so they should work. The printers use a fixed IPs and I can ping the printers from the IPX so I know the pipe is there. I took a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and installed CUPS to act as a Unix print server. As of now, I can print a test page from CUPS to my...

I found this document from IBM https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/information-printers-canon which lists only one of my Canon printers. I'm betting that the printers I have are too new for Solaris 1.1.2 (SunOS 4.1.4).

I just looked at the printer specs -- it's a fairly new printer -- and it does work with Linux and supports IPP/LPD -- but it doesn't mention anything about input format, but I'd guess that it would accept PS, PCL and HPGL formats. The test file I was sending was ASCII text, but I guess if I...

Some progress based on reading Chapter 7, but still no output -- the printer wakes-up, which is good. I'm using "lpr -Plp1 {filename}" to send a job. Here's my printcap entry: #Printer #1 lp1|Canon LBP612:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :rm=CanonLPD:\ :rp=lp1:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\...

Thanks. What's interesting is that there are different on-line guides, supposedly for the same version of SunOS, with different instructions. Will need to thread my way through Chapter 7. Rich

All -- I'm making progress getting my IPX configured -- this weekend I was working on getting network printers to work, but not having much success yet. Here's what I've done so far, so maybe someone can tell me where I've gone sideway with it. I have a Canon IP-enabled printer that can print...

Hm, ok. Let me do some Googling on that. I found the original Chipmunk BASIC from David Gillespie in comp.sources.unix.

All -- Not sure if this belongs here or in Vintage Software, but I'm playing around with my IPX and wondered if there was a BASIC interpreter someone developed for that platform. Most of what I'm finding in my searches are for more current platforms (Windows, Linux) than SunOS from 1997. I may...

Correct. I've even built some well-known brute-force PAL readers used in the pinball/arcade realm and I haven't been successful at reading the 16L8 PALs. The Color Magic also has two 20L10 PALs which I can't read at all. I did follow a trail to Rich Lomas but I've been told he doesn't have any...

Closing this out, I got a second CDROM and booted to the miniroot environment. This allowed me to fsck the old drive and reset the time to something more palatable. Once that was done, it booted just fine. I will still convert this to the ZuluSCSI and shelve the old hard drive.

All -- For a few months, I've been working on a replica of the Lomas Color Magic video board so I can use it with my Gazelle. Since I couldn't find one of my own, I decided to build a replica, and I borrowed a board from a friend so I could try to read the PALs. These PALs have the security...

To correct one thing from earlier, I noticed that swap and dump point to the same partition (sd0b) although they report different sizes by maybe 22 bytes. I did order a ZuluSCSI board and, as mentioned, a proper CDROM drive. So When that stuff comes, my plan is to create a SUN2.1G image for...

Thanks. I may also change to the ZuluSCSI and ditch physical drives all together. I really want to investigate what's on this hard drive before I ditch it. It had some references to "wavestepper" in the password file so I kind of feel it was used in an industrial setting.

Well, the system does load the kernel from the hard drive and it probes the system devices but when it gets further into the boot it halts after probing the dump partition. So I don't think the drive failed but maybe the partition now had an issue. I have another SCSI drive I can try but the CD...

It came configured with swap and dump in different partitions. NVRAM setup per the various FAQs. If the external connector is supposed to be terminated, it's not, but I have connected an external SCSI enclosure that's terminated and it doesn't seem to matter. This was working last night and now...

All -- I just picked up a nice-condition IPX that I've already replaced the NVRAM battery with a carrier board from Glitchwrks (highly recommended BTW) and now I have an odd problem when booting into SunOS. Last night I was able to boot into SunOS, and I tried setting the date, but it wouldn't...

I would be interested in seeing how this works, too. I have some S100 boards with locked 16L8's that I need to read. I was thinking of having a few boards made shortly. I need something for 20L10's too, but it looks like DuPAL hasn't been extended to use those yet.