vrs42
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I notice they all do. Is that a requirement for a 4.0 driver??It shows as a version M.
Vince
I notice they all do. Is that a requirement for a 4.0 driver??It shows as a version M.
Dataplan made changes to a lot of the drivers. If they made a change then it looks like they made the version M. I haven't looked closely enough to be certain that is globally true. So who is Dataplan GMBH? They must have licensed OS/8 in order to make their own release. It looks like currently they offer IT and Cloud services.I notice they all do. Is that a requirement for a 4.0 driver??
Thanks Jack! I bookmarked the page and I will look at it more later.Bill Cattey has done a tremendous amount of forensic work to develop pristine distributions of OS/8 built from source on the PiDP/8 forum.
A big part of my collection came from Gerold Pauler. His father bought a 8/m and there is a lot of paper, letters, contracts. Once I have this documents moved to my house, I will have a closer look at this paperwork. Maybe I find pricelists and catalogs from Data Plan.Do you know more about Dataplan in the 1980 time period, when they were selling this equipment?
If I understand correctly you are asking if someone has added the Serial Disk bootloader into the OS/8 BOOT program. I don't think so but I will be happy to learn otherwise.
Good deal! It needs to get put into the serial disk distro.I did that quite a few years ago, and circulated the modified source code.
SKRB=6406
SKSF= 6401
STLS= 6416
/BEGINNING OF HAND TOGGLED CODE
*30
GO, STLS /SEND A ZERO TO WAKE UP THE SERVER FOR BOOTING
BOOT1, DCA 0 /STORE ADDRESS. MODIFIED BY THE ISZ THAT FOLLOWS
GETCH, ISZ .-1 /BUMP STORE ADDRESS
SKSF /SKIP IF SERVER HAS SENT US A CHARACTER
JMP .-1 /WAIT FOR A CHARACTER
SKRB /READ THE CHARACTER
PTCHME, RTR /MOVE BITS INTO POSITION
RAR
JMP BOOT1 /GO DO NEXT ONE
/END OF HAND TOGGLED CODE
$
I've also done a hack where I added something likeAaah, found it. The option =00030 was new to me!
*200
JMP GO
Nice. Thanks!!I took the long bootcode of os8diskserver and put it in bootv4.pa from OS/78.
I store my M8xxxx modules in these bags...Took the rest of the cards out of the 8/e. The CPU cards were out already. I need a better way to store them. They are currently in a bankers box.
I just took some MDF and ran it over the table saw to cut a kerf every 1/2". The boards drop into the slots with similar spacing to that of a backplane, but without the insertion force. If I had it to do over, I might cut the kerf a little deeper, so that the boards would be more upright. OTOH, at the depth they are, the boards can be tilted forward and backward a bit, which helps when trying to find a specific one.Started building a 3D model of the H800W connector block. I have two of these new in box. They are single sided connectors for the Flipchips cards. I started doing this in order to make a better way to store my flipchip modules.