Date   : Tue, 23 Feb 1993 18:31:40 +1200
From   : sainty_d@...
Subject: tequilacomm

Almost 2 months ago I made the offer of distributing my comms program
to individual people, but then mysteriously ( :-) disappeared from the
modemming world! Sorry about that.

I'm now back, and intend to get onto this as rapidly as I can!

The people who wrote to me are:

daniel@... (Daniel Bowen)
matthew@... (Matthew Sweet)
zrzm0370@... (Joerg Scheurich)
A.Leahy@... (Andrew Leahy)
ian@... (I Stephenson)
rsteele@... (Robbie Steele)

Thankyou all. Anyone else wanting a copy can mail me too, especially
if you tried to mail me and are not on this list (my account was
purged due to inactivity! :-)

Other matters of interest:

I've upgraded my hard drive from 8 megs to 20 megs. The new drive
however is about a quater of the age of the old drive (The old drive
is about the same age as my old model B I think!), and has a track
step time some 15 times faster than the old! Time for a modified
version of ADFS to deal with this!

My HD boot program makes a copy of the (Master) ADFS rom into a
sideways ram bank and modifies it, also adding some code to set up
the hard drive specs every time break is pressed (My HD controller
board defaults to the correct number of heads, but an incorrect
number of cylinders).

This may be useless to all, as my setup is not quite Acorn
specification (the SCSI->MFM controller board is a Seagate device,
rather than Adaptec, and has head stepping options that may not even
exist on the Adaptec board). It'll really be of most use to people
trying to hack their own Hard Drive systems together.

Further to that, Acorn were kind enough to send me the technical
details of their interface (1MHz -> SCSI), so if anyone needs
the info on an ADFS compatable interface (ie. the circuit diagram)
I have this here.

Dave.

(terros@...)