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Any chance you can upload the files you have in a TI ARC file, Schmitzi? I'm not able to change image files into TI files at this time but I can XFER the ARC file over to the TI.

My UDS-10 settings.

Thanks for the replies. Here's a photo of my connector for the UDS-10 and TI RS232. UDS-10 connector to the left of the photo and TI RS232 connector to the right. I run the program RSC2. Will post again with screen capture of my UDS-10 settings.

More photos.

I don't have a macro lens but hopefully these photos are good enough to catch what he needs to know.

Guess they changed the editor since last time I used it.

Wow, just tried to upload photos but this site won't accept any. How do you upload photos here? Never had this problem before.

Is anyone running the UDS-10 patch cable to a switch? Does the UDS-10 patch cable need to be connected directly to the Ethernet modem? I'm asking because I've run into the problem that the browser keeps retrying to connect but never does. I've run into this problem with a controller device I have here that gave me problems while connected to a switch until I connected it to the modem directly. I'm running version 9.2 of the Browser.

I don't have the schematic but if you find it let me know. Do you have the original GR software? I've been looking for that for ages.

The latest midi master 99 files including play in can be found on the Hidden Reef BBS 1-718-448-9402. My wife and I were the testers for Bruce on the Midi Master 99 project. I also have the source code but that would take a bit to dig out and I don't have time right now but eventually I plan to add it to the Hidden Reef BBS downloads. Bruce did some amazing work with these programs and created some nice tools that made it much easier to publish music. Unfortunately, Bruce passed on before he was finished with Play-in but it works fine for all but the most virtuoso serious music. In addition the SAMS card allows very large symphony pieces to be played on the TI. The cable I use is the latest design from Mike Maksimik that cured a "ground loop" problem when using Yamaha midi keyboards. I will try to add the picture of the cable pin outs here when time allows me to dig it out of one of the piles around here.

Happy to report my 32k unit arrived in the morning mail and I slipped away from company just long enough to plug in the old "Box Car" RS232 side expansion and then this new unit and with Tony's 2.7 Suite plugged in used Mass Transfer to dial up the Hidden Reef BBS at 2400 baud successfully. Nice work, jedimatt42.

Thanks for taking the time, Fred.

Yes, insane multitasker has reminded me that Fred does use the space in the 512k for buffers so this mod is no good for the IDE DSR write switch. Oh well, it's never easy with the TI/Geneve. lol

Just had a conversation with insane multitasker this evening in which we spoke about how easy it is to corrupt the IDE DSR residing in the 512k memory. It came to mind that there was a mod that could be done to the WHT Horizon RAM Disks to deal with the problem of corrupting the 32k ROS memory chip when assembly programmers go around peeking and poking. What the mod did was put a switch in the circuit for the write line to the 32k so that once a ROS was loaded and the switch then opened that line wayward peeks and pokes couldn't corrupt the ROS. Perhaps there is still time to add such a feature to the new through hole design that does the same thing to the 512k that holds the DSR for the IDE controller. Just a thought, I haven't actually checked the circuitry of the IDE controller to know if a switch could be added without affecting normal operation.

If obtainable in the quantity we need, I vote for the RTC65271 with the Toshiba chip.

The clock chips for the original cards are getting a little bit hard to find in the chip houses so it's best to just leave the board as is and do a run so any one of the three options can be used when found. As we already discussed earlier in this thread the RTC65271 unit may be the one to shoot for in a parts kit.

Actually the NATIONAL MM58167AN Real Time Clock 24-Pin Dip is not an IDE clock chip and would require it's own little circuit to dial it in so it keeps accurate time.

Ooops!!! I forgot I need 5 kits and one bare board for a total of 6 boards. The bare board makes it easy for my old eyes to be able to find traces when doing repairs.

I'm on board for 5 cards with parts. (Side note; I just had to get two rails of the MBP clock chip because that's how many chips it took to get a decent price. Two rails of these chips will last the community into the next century but TIers still don't like to pay the high per chip price from the chip houses or ebay. We should probably just put these cards up as a kit so parts can be bought in quantity and then the per chip price won't prevent people from buying the card itself. Just my thought.)

Excellent.

Thank you, Ermanno.

Hi All, Greg and I have been working out getting the remaining SNUG 32-16 kits available for those interested but time for us to accomplish the task with my life taken over by a run for Congress over the past year and a half have kept us from succeeding. Now that the election has passed and I didn't win, my life is getting back to normal and I will be getting a package out to Greg within the next couple of weeks. The inventory is low but probably enough to easily meet the current demand of about half dozen kits. It will be up to Greg to decide if it's worthwhile to make another run of the boards and possibly move from a PAL device to a PLD device. SNUG (Michael Becker) has released the rights to me for the kit and there is no longer a modest license fee required. The kits are a high quality board and parts and should probably sell in the $40 range but Greg and I have not finalized pricing as we need to calculate current pricing of parts first. The SNUG 32-16 has more features than just adding the 32k to the 16 bit buss and I believe I have scanned the latest docs for it and have them on one of my old chip programming machines. I'll try to find them and post them here for all to see ASAP.

Excellent.

I'll take one for my TI repair sys and one for my Geneve/MYARC repair sys in "plug and play" status please.

This is something you can do if you have a "shell account" and use the terminal ZT4 on the 4a or a Geneve with the terminal PORT. The shell account is a Unix server which allows internet browsing without the graphics. Once you learn the navigation it's straight forward except for "java script" sites which can sometimes freeze the TI/Geneve.