Hey all,

I have newly manufactured DSDD diskettes available for sale. They come with sleeves. I ordered these in bulk and as such they have no boxes or stickers.

$0.80 each, PM if interested.

S&H will be actual cost.

For the record, I "make" about 5 cents a disk off of these basically to offset my financing the inventory. I have 900 of these in stock. I had to place the minimum order of 1000 to get them produced as my last lot of 50 "new old stock" disks were starting to fail formatting, etc.

Hey there,


I'd like to hook up an extension cable to my 128DCR.  Would a standard pass-though DB25 serial cable work?

I have a 128D which I was using with a lt. Kernal.  Getting the LtK to work with the internal disk drive required cutting a pin on U3 and wiring to the daughter board.  That was all well and good, but I decided to removed the LtK from the setup and when trying to resolder that pin (with a trace wire) to the board the damn thing broke off at the IC plastic.

Long story short, dead computer.  So I pulled that chip, ordered a new 74LS08PC and put in a socket and all appeared well.  Welp I'm still getting flaky behavior on file access (only in 128 mode) and I assume it's because the u3 chip is involved in burst mode and memory banking (who knows what else).

I'm gonna pull the machine and check my socket maybe the solder didn't float all the way through to the top of the board.  Any other ideas?

I have a 128D which died (due to an LtK upgrade gone wrong).  I replaced the affected 74Ls08PC IC (u3) and it seemed to work again.  As I understand it this chip is responsible for memory bank control.  Well it's still acting flaky with the IEC bus, and I presume it's due to this chip mishandling the serial to RAM calls....  I'm going to pull it and resolder my socket and try again but would like a main board as a backup.  So anyone have a 128D with a dead drive, I'm your guy!

Hey all,

Looking for anyone who's owned a Lt Kernal HDD subsystem...

I've acquired a 20MB unit recent and picked up a couple of 140MB 50 pin units to replace the existing 20MB unit with...  The reason I'm calling all hands is that I need to figure out how to format the 2nd unit..... I've read through the SYSGEN stuff online, but that seems to all be "start from scratch" kinda stuff and my goal is to add a 140MB unit and copy the data off the 20MB drive.... Mainly, honestly, because I hope the 3.5" unit will be quieter....

Anyone done anything of the sort?

Thanks!

I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a 20MB Lt Kernal, Host Adapter, and still sealed 128D daughterboard..... I've gotten it to work on a 64C and a 128 without issue (though despite older claims of JiffyDOS compatibility I'm not finding that true).  I'm trying to get it to work with AABBS128 12.5 without any luck.  I'm running a BBS with that software on a few 1581's and 1571's without issue, but despite trying to  start from a clean install, as soon as it tries to load (from autoload or autostart, can't remember this very second) I get a device not found error...

Unfortunately the source is compiled with blitz so when I get the device not found error (after it loads AAPARAMS...) the line number it reports I can get from "LIST"ing and it doesn't match the source....

Anyone here run that version of AABBS with an LtK?  If so, any pointers?  I did get my hands on the source of AABBS and am recompiling the 12.5b version (I'm running 12.5c) to see if that works any better, but I'm not holding my breath..... The wife was surprisingly forgiving of my "birthday purchase", but if I stuff it in a closet I suspect that'll change....

Thanks!!!

Anyone know of websites with hints on this bit of HW?  I finally got a Promenade C1, and have the sotware (using Promenade-Aid) but that's as far as I've gotten....  For example, I'm trying to burn the SERVANT ROM (32K) to  a 32C256 EEPROM and it prompts me for a first and second 16K section in addition to a "program type", at which point I'm lost???  I'd love to play around with SERVANT and have a load of EEPROMS just dying for some use, any hints?

Thanks!!!