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To: cfimx who wrote (39579)	12/21/2000 5:04:54 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Okay twister, here's a post I made elsewhere back in October detailing exactly how prepared I was for all of this two months ago and in fact, how I anticipated it. Note my solar charged deep cycle die-hard array (10x12v) described toward the end of this rant. -JCJ ----- From <no_spam> Fri Oct 27 01:28:23 2000 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: JC Jaros <no_spam> To: Nick Moffitt <no_spam> Cc: Simioj Frenezetaj <no_spam> Subject: CP/M on Osborne help (was- run Debian GNU/Linux on your iPAQ!) On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Nick Moffitt wrote: > > Debian/ARM on the iPAQ mini-HOWTO [...] Excuse me for falling behind the curve here but, I'm having a problem getting CP/M 2.2 working on my Osborne 1. I've had this project apart for a long long time now. Long enough to where I could go Ted Streleski on it at any time. For that reason, I'm more than somewhat hoping somebody here can help by pointing me in the direction of a multimetered Z-80 Feng Shui bench zenster, somewhere in the Bay Area. I realize that this Osborne isn't the latest portable but it's what I have, and with a 1200 baud external modem, it's enough to get me to the multiuser dial-up shell (using magnifying dentist glasses). Here's the deal: Switch-on; <beep> drive A ready and spinning; no fan noise (like it's meant to be). OZROM 1E #00130 says insert disk, push play. I do that. I get <click_click_click_click...> from the A drive and the screen prints "Oh No!", only it's "Oh Noooooo...". I push reset. Pinback to bomb #20 <tap tap tap>. I've gone over the read head and contacts with serious biker chemist solvents, at one point finding myself driving wide eyed through Marin County with an open container of liquid freon (a whole other story). -- Not 'free' as in free beer, or 'free' as in free speech, but 'free' as in freakin' banned-from-the-face-of-the-earth, FREON! -- What can be worse than this? There's a little tiny black dot way up in the sky now, directly over the house. I tried swapping the A drive (belt driven, S arm Siemens) with the B drive (same). How this thing knows to follow the A drive all the way over to the other side of the machine, I don't know. I have attempted multiple CP/M 2.2 SS,DD boot disks. Although this was one of the first few hundred 1981 Osbornes, it was apparently updated in 1983 with a 1982 double density/80 column vid daughter card, an up-to-date Harmonic Convergence ready BIOS in 1984 and should therefore be booting up. It's not. -- Who knows about this? Goin' Mobile: I need to get this portable up and happening. When this indestructible ARPA "Internet" thing goes south (and it will), I'm going to be ready to roll in a different direction with a rapid response mobile 8-bit Lemurian Co-op (N-8-1). -- With University gibbons emergency routing post-hose TCP/IP packets, swollen with stolen porn GIFs and redundant Metallica MP3s into the amateur Spread Spectrum network, PANSAT melts. It's academic. -- Back on Earth, Lemurian Co-op will be on high ground and plugged into a Mendonesian solar panel/Diehard array, Waiting For Call at a remote phone booth with a 23x7 single line 10mb BBS, AX.25 (tube radio) gateway and Fido tosser. -- This A> drive boots the formative 'situation room' for the new coalition network's first important flame war. Once the CP/M candle gets this pumpkin glowing, it's just a simple matter of having cold homebrew, Co-SysOps and Quarters. 'Obsolete', my ass. -- Where's the technician? TIA -JCJ -={ L E M U R I A N C O - O P }=- offline