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Nekochan Net blog | gallery | forum | nekoware | wiki | links | server info Atari 800 By nekonoko on August 23, 2008 6:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) While on vacation I made certain to periodically check out the Bay Area Craigslist just in case some interesting hardware bubbled up in my absence. Sure enough, a couple things surfaced. The first: a complete NeXTstation mono slab system (including the laser printer) - free for pickup. I was apparently too late to capitalize on that one though - my e-mail inquiry garnered no response.The second was a Atari 800 (listed as a 1200XL) with 1050 diskette drive, manuals, programming books and software (original diskettes for Zork, Atari DOS, SynFile and PrintShop; BASIC and AtariWriter on cartridge). Grabbed it just this morning from San Francisco (my second Atari system from that city) for $25. I can honestly say I’m getting better at navigating around San Francisco. Scads of retro computing hardware seems to crop up there, so I’ve been getting a lot of practice!Upon testing the machine I only ran into a couple of minor snags. The system came with an old school RF converter for video output which isn’t really something I can use on anything modern. Vexingly, there doesn’t appear to be any Atari monitor cables on eBay at the moment.Fortunately, the DIN to composite cable I’m using on my TI-99/4a generates a usable picture on the Atari 800. From what I can tell online, the image quality should improve considerably if I can source a Atari DIN to S-Video cable. I’ve fired off an e-mail to a vendor that’s apparently offered them in the recent past. (Update: I’ve been informed they will have the cables back in stock the first week of September.)After resolving the video problem, my first operational test was to boot up Zork from diskette as shown below: At this point I discovered that the keyboard was largely unresponsive, and I wound up exercising each key individually before they began to work reliably. Took a bit of time, but all the keys are now fully operational.Here’s a shot of Atari DOS 2.0S - it reminds me a lot of the Apple ///’s SOS with a menu based approach rather than a “traditional” command line shell. From what I was able to gather online, I apparently have an early 1050 drive which included Atari DOS 2.0S instead of the newer 3.0 (or even 2.5) that shipped with most 1050s. I’d never really played with an Atari 8-bit machine before, which really is one of the coolest things about retrocomputing - it gives me the chance to play with hardware I’d only read about in magazines while growing up. I did have a childhood acquaintance (Aaron Osborne or Darryl Schroeder) with a Atari 400, but my somewhat fuzzy recollection is that he used it mostly as a cartridge based game system. I don’t recall him having a diskette drive, though he probably had cassette.Coincidently, there was a recent Slashdot article on the early history of Atari that mentioned Atari had fired “a young programmer named Bill Gates” who was apparently slow to produce a BASIC for the machine. I’m looking forward to finding interesting software for the 8-bit Atari and putting it through the paces. Earl Evans of the Retrobits Podcast had some glowing things to say about Star Raiders and the Atari 800 system in general, devoting podcasts to both (shows 11 and 82), so I’ll have to put Star Raiders on the lookout list. The Dilemma of the Eight Inch Diskette By nekonoko on August 15, 2008 9:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Eight inch disks are both a blessing and a curse in the retro computing world. They’re awesome in that for the time, they stored a generous amount of data - even a single density double sided 8” diskette could hold half a megabyte, which was impressive considering early microcomputer hard drives (such as Apple’s ProFile) topped out at only 5 megabytes. The problem with eight inch diskettes today is not so much the disk capacity, or even obtaining blank media (it’s still surprisingly easy to find inexpensive media thanks to IBM’s support of the format long after the microcomputer industry had moved on). The issue is how to get new data on one of these beasts in this day and age.Some back story is in order. One of my recent Craigslist fueled acquisitions was an absolutely beautiful TRS-80 Model II with all the trimmings. The Model II is a very rare backplane based Z-80 system in the spirit of the S-100 style machines - separate cards for disk control, CPU, video, etc. situated on a “dumb” backplane coupled to a eight inch diskette drive.The “trimmings” I mentioned included everything from original media, manuals, cables, books - even an unopened box of original TRS-80 Model II diskettes still in their shrink wrap! Despite the glory of the haul (all for $20), I soon ran into a rather large issue.The problem became apparent as I tried to boot the system from the original TRSDOS floppy. After several unsuccessful attempts, I discovered that the magnetic coating of the diskette was literally wearing away where the read heads had touched it. You can clearly see the ring patterns in the shot below. Of course at this point I cleaned the drive heads, but it seems this phenomenon is more due to the age of the media than any abrasive residue left on the heads themselves. Afterwards, I found a backup TRSDOS floppy in the morass of diskettes that came with the machine which did boot successfully. No problem - simply copy the working TRSDOS diskette to a fresh blank, right? Unfortunately, no - for some reason, even though the diskette seems to boot and operate just peachy, it won’t copy; errors out with a message that the boot sector can’t be read. It too is probably on its last leg, and I’m reluctant to use it much considering the same fate could easily befall it. The Model II is useless without a bootable OS diskette - it has nothing in ROM to fall back on. Now we get into the nitty gritty. There is a way to get fresh TRSDOS floppies, even a newer version than the one I have now. Also, a CP/M by Pickles & Trout is readily available. The catch? The software is only available on disk images that must be downloaded and written out to eight inch disks via a PC using MS-DOS. Yuck. I did put out some feelers to see if I could locate someone who had already assembled such a system, maybe to create media for S-100 systems (or even a Model II). Unable to find any leads, I resigned myself to assembling my own imaging system.Some of the first parts have begun to trickle in. I picked up a couple new boxes of eight inch floppies off eBay for $15 per box of ten. I also purchased a throughly nifty eight inch drive adapter card from D-Bit that should make hooking up an eight inch drive to a PC a much easier task. Oh, and I bought a Shugart 801 diskette drive similar to the one found stock in the Model II. What remains is to locate a PC with a compatible floppy controller chipset to do the grunt work and some sort of external chassis or power source for the eight inch diskette drive. As I work through these remaining issues I’ll post updates on them. Should be fun, and hopefully once this is all up and working I’ll be able to offer pre-made floppies to others so they won’t necessarily have to go through the same pain themselves.And now I’m off on vacation for a week to take a break from the grind at work, so blog posting will most likely halt for a bit. Until then, happy computing! Osborne 1 By nekonoko on August 12, 2008 10:44 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Over the past few days I’ve picked up a couple “new” machines - an Atari 1040ST in perfect condition with all manner of software and accessories (more on that one as I explore further - lots of things to look at) and just this evening, an Osborne 1. I picked up the Osborne in Morgan Hill form a Craigslist seller with the understanding that the floppy drives weren’t working. After my recent experience with the TRS-80 Model III I figured it could just be a power supply. Since the machine seemed to power up okay otherwise I wasn’t too worried - whatever it was would most likely be an easy repair. Once I got the machine home and started troubleshooting, I discovered a stuck key was blocking it from booting - it won’t perform a disk seek unless you hit ‘enter’. This also explained why the screen would flash a few times after power up - the stuck key was forcing screen redraws until the keyboard buffer filled up. Exercising the keys a bit cleared the stuck key and everything now checks out. I also took the opportunity to fully disassemble the unit and “de-bunny” it as Dr. Dave would say.The machine also came with a small collection of diskettes in the right-hand storage compartment, including copies of Osborne’s CP/M and WordStar.All in all it seems like a pretty cool machine, though the display is impossibly tiny - I imagine quite a few Osborne fans opted for an external display when portability wasn’t a concern. After using it for a bit I feel Kaypro certainly had the advantage on the suitcase form factor with a useable screen size. SGI Cube Demo Reloaded By nekonoko on August 10, 2008 8:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Martin Steen has posted an update of his cube demo with several added features, including command line options to control the axis of rotation, custom image maps and windowed mode - there’s even a new “cow mode”! More info and discussion can be found in this forum thread. 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