danwinslow

Yes, the derail has absquatulated, if you'll pardon the anthropomorphization.

Hmm, well, I'll have them 'speak' to your neighbor too. Anybody in flip flops, I'll say, and their little dog too. Then they will look at me in silence, and it'll feel awkward, and I'll pause a moment and then loudly say "FRIP FROPS", and they will nod excitedly amongst themselves. Then they'll trot off somewhere...burger king first most likely, then kill everyone in flip flops for a forty block radius. All that aside, sorry you're going through this kind of irritation, and I hope it passes quickly. Be well.

Ok, Jon, that's it. We're sending ninjas. When you least expect it. The good news is, they'll probably whack those Rottweilers on the way in. The bad news is, well, they are ninjas. Mean ones, with pointy bits.

/popcorn Emkay made his very own rant thread!

There is no such thing as time just beads of now, like dew on a spiderweb shining in the morning sun GET TO WORK JON THIS HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH

All in all, I'd recommend MadPascal for this. Not that the other solutions are incapable, far from it, but MP is really powerful, fast, high level, and single executable. Fastbasic sounds good too, but I've no experience with it.

Additional info - with a CTE63 installed, the CT63 seems to operate normally. When I jumper it for 030 mode, then the results are the same as above. Could this possibly be a battery issue?

awesome! Thanks so much!

I have been working on re-assembling a Falcon recently. It worked at one point, but later when I went back to do some more it now seems to have trouble generating a video signal. Here's a picture of what I get. It has nothing in it but a known working 14MB Wizztronics board and the power supply. That's it. Keyboard, internal floppy and hd all disconnected. Any ideas? Tried a few different monitors, som esaid "out of range", some showed this same pic. For all I know, the VGA adapter plug has gone bad but I doubt it.

there's a lot of variables here, of course, and also depending on use case. I think in general the PBI is the way to go for fastest potential throughput.

pretty much everything I can see there is worth about that much.

Hi Folks. Can anyone give me any information about how to get case & PSU screws for a Falcon? Thanks Dan

You're using a much later version that I did, but just a -l on the cl65 command should do it. You have a -Wl, but I don't see just the -l. I am not familiar with --listing, they must have added that one (or I ignored it it for the shorter form). At any rate I did not have issues using mixed .c and .s files with output listings.

Anyone have any product recommendations for a good cooling unit on a CT60E? Thanks Dan

Never mind - found one.

I've been really hoping someone would build a breakout board for the PBI/ECI, something that could be easily interfaced with from the digital IO pins on an arduino or similar. We could probably do some cool stuff, and probably much faster than going over SIO.

Thanks, Guys.

I have some more drives to check out, but I actually don't have any floppies left. I am assuming osmething like this : https://www.ebay.com/itm/Maxell-MD-2HD-5-1-4-Floppy-Disk-Box-10-New-Old-Stock-5-25-Floppies-Super-RDII/143688667159?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20201210111314%26meid%3De2219b40daa54a84aabc432d97124547%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D303875721301%26itm%3D143688667159%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWebWithDarwoV3BBEV2b%26brand%3DMaxell&_trksid=p2047675.c101195.m1851 Would work fine?

Yes, it's very clean inside. Blue dip switch. The spindle and the rotating cap are free to spin, but... So, I saw what Doctor was talking about as the 'shaft', which is a little silver shaft with a circlet clamp on it. I pushed it up through the hole, and re-attached the circlet, but it is so short it wound up compressing the spring almost entirely, which didn't seem right, but whatever. Then I undid some of the screws at the far end of the lift mechanism (which is actuated by a little cam on the front disk lock switch) so I could get a bit of free motion to slip that little cap under the arms of the lift mechanism. At that point it should have maybe worked but what happens now is it clamps WAY too tight down and will not spin with the drive mechanism anymore. So, there's something that I don't understand/didn't do right. There were about 4 spacers under the end of the lift mechanism next to the edge of the case, I suppose to give it height, that I may need to put back in. I was trying to get it ready to sell, but that looks dim at this point.

yeah, the problem is there's nothing to snap it back onto, the under side of that spindle lift is just bare metal.

Hi Doctor, thanks. I think you might be talking about the front lift up panel. I am talking about the actual rotator cuff that engages the disk. It's the spring beneath the gold (colored) lift mechanism. Or, at least, if we are talking about teh same thing then I don't even know it

So, I went ahead and popped the top off. Looks like there is a spring coil in the middle that has become detached from the lift mechanism, on the underneath of the lift. There is also a shot of the lift mechanism more from the top that is a little clearer. I don't see a clean way to get the lift off of the hooks. Any suggestions?

Hi Folks - I have a very nice looking Indus drive that seems to have a problem. I was trying to test it, and I found I was unable to insert a disk. The top rotator cuff (the one with the little indentations in it) seems to be stuck in the down position, blocking any attempts at inserting a disk. Any advice? I don't have any issue opening it up but don't really know what to look for in particular. Thanks Dam

concur ^

i think this is a great idea, and would buy several. As others have said, UAV and a hdmi output would be good, I'd like to see a fixed up PBI/ECI especially if it had buffering and some kind of a pin-out or cable socket such that we could interface things more easily. More ram is a great idea...not sure why we wouldn't just go to 1MB but any RAM expansion beyond 128 would be great.