Date : Wed, 19 Feb 1992 18:46:33 GMT
From : dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!cunews!nrcnet0!emr1!icottrel.emr.ca!icottrel@ (Ian Cottrell)
Subject: Re: Info on NorthStar
In article <77958@yarra.pyramid.com.au> cm@yarra.pyramid.com.au (Charles
Meo) writes:
>In article <10089@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> steffen@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu (David
Steffen) writes:
>>In article <1992Feb13.053835.4833@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jlb31348@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
(Jim Brain) writes:
>>>Does anyone else out there run [Northstar and] CPM?
>>I haven't fired up my Northstars for a while (two Horizons and an
>>Advantage) but when I do, I use CP/M. They are good CP/M computers,
>>IMHO.
>>
>>(From your description, it sounds like what you have are Horizons.
>>The one thing you should be careful of is that they are a bit unusual;
>>the buss is not standard S100, and the disks are hard sectored, which
>>makes them incompatible with about anything else.)
>I have an Advantage at home and a very nice box it was in its day. I have
ported
>kermit to it (thus solving the incompatible disk problem somewhat) though if
>anyone has figured out a way to patch the hardware and software to use
PC style
>disks I would sure like to know how.
>I have run ZCPR 1 and EZCPR on the thing, but ran out of time after that. I
>think most of ZCPR2 will run as well.
>These old things are fun to play with!
>Chuck
>--
>SVR4: One Size Fits Nobody.
>email: cm@yarra.pyramid.com.au
Chuck
I saw a report on the GEnie CP/M RT last week of someone who had rigged
some sort of hardware device to allow the hard sectored drive (controller)
in a N* to read soft sectored diskettes. If I can find out more about it,
I'll post it here...................Ian
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