In a message dated 9/29/2007 1:42:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... it ... in ... It ... Unfortunately when I tested the system this weekend, the drives were...
Hi, Aside from some minor clean up, the Catweasel project is ready to release code for initial testing. I have been testing and tweaking the code somewhat but...
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In a message dated 10/1/2007 10:20:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Bums me out because the system was working not too long ago. I worked on the drives for...
As far as I can tell, the "hard sectored" or "soft sectored" part is handled by the controller. I believe any of those full height 360K drives will work. I...
In a message dated 10/2/2007 1:30:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Thanks, I hoped as much. I will take more time this weekend. That's exactly what I am...
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Hi, Someone whom I respect very much as has privately raised a concern with me this Yahoo Group may actually be harmful to the continued existence of the ...
I subscribe to a couple of TRS-80 Yahoo groups. I still read <comp.sys.tandy) also. I am *not* sure if the Yahoo groups are having any effect on the USENET...
... with me ... of the ... I used to be active on Comp.Sys.N* then it went to as low as a message a month sometimes far less and the porn and spam moved in....
Hi, I received some 10 sector 5.25" hard sector floppy disks. I have made disk images of about 8 or so and they seemed pretty normal, however, when I got to...
I joined this group because I'm curious about NorthStars. But I've never owned one. In fact, I've been told to stay away from them because of the odd disks...
... Yes, the disks are "odd" but at the time softsector controller chips were rare, expensive and hard to use. So it means you need media with 10 extra holes...
... [snip] ... [snip] I am trying to at least reduce the above problem with the Catweasel NorthStar program. It allows a generic PC with a Catweasel to read ...
... I was trying not to throw brickbats at PC centric floppy thinking. ;) If you have CW your solution is good. If you don't then mine works. My solution...
Hi all, I have just added a NorthStar Horizon to my collection and need some help. This last weekend I took it all apart, cleaned and fixed everything...
... Welcome Steve! I have found that NorthStar Horizons are particularily sensitive to drive alignment issues. My suggestion is to use the boot strapping ...
... I have the simand the tools. For the NS*dos case NSI is very useful as you can easily read the directory and file spaces. NS*dos has a very simple file...
... Ok, first this for CP/M use is how much memory do you have and does it start a 0000h to as high as E7FFH? CP/m uses the first 256bytes and the last...
Would it be possible to create a device for punching the sector holes in a soft sector 5 1/4" floppy disk... to create a hard sectored disk for use on the...
... Yes, this is possible and some claim to have actually done it. I have saved a dead TM-100-2A drive to assemble a jig like the one suggested but have not...
My current configuration is ZPB-A1 Z-80 board no ROM option HRAM6 Memory 64K installed date codes 8215 on AM9016 RAM chips IMSAI VIO video board MDS-AD3 floppy...
... I wanted to do something similar but I was confused by the wording in the CPU-Z manual where the PROMs are described as the "low address half" in the left...
... F000H. ... in ... or ... socket ... Jack, I think typically it is the latter. The EPROMs are 8 bit as are the CPUs so if they are going to spread a...
... subtracting ... NS*dos, ... and ... are ... There ... out ... Allison, please do post those utilities for the NorthStar. Send and Recv would be very...
... operate ... on ... is ... Steve, Had any luck with your system? Have you tried swapping the drives? Just change the drive ID jumpers and the terminator...
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