ESF.ROM

[trsscott]

Hi,

I see that the Matthew Reed emulator now supports Exatron Stringy
Floppy. Is the ESF ROM available any place which supports this mode?
I see back in 2004 there was a thread with a HEX dump of the ROM -
maybe that is the only thing available?

[te...@webweavers.co.nz]

Hi Scott and others,

I've linked the ROM to my article here:
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_accessories.htm#stringy

Terry

[trsscott]

On Jul 1, 7:05 am, te...@webweavers.co.nz wrote:
> On Jul 1, 5:46 am, trsscott <scott.toennies...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Scott and others,
>

> I've linked the ROM to my article here:http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/hardware_accessories.ht...
>
> Terry

Terry,

Thank you much!. I've read your article in the recent past - good
explanation of the system 80. I remember the ads from 80 Micro but
never knew the details and about the various addons.

I've got mostly stock R/S gear but I do have a Lobo MAX-80 which I
bought from Roy Soltoff when he liquidated a lot of his equipment.
Very neat machine. Haven't had it running in about 9 years, though
I've been thinking of digging it out.

- Scott

[te...@webweavers.co.nz]

> I've got mostly stock R/S gear but I do have a Lobo MAX-80 which I
> bought from Roy Soltoff when he liquidated a lot of his equipment.
> Very neat machine.  Haven't had it running in about 9 years, though
> I've been thinking of digging it out.

Cool. Dig it out and see if it still goes.!

Tonight I looked for the ESF data I/O program and lo and behold, I
found I had a wafer containing it. I checked if it would load and it
did! Great.

I wanted to get this into the emulator. After figuring out how I was
going to do this and getting everything ready, I started to reload the
program and suddenly the tape broke! bugger! Oh well, at least I
have a listing of it, so if I doesn't appear anywhere else (anyone got
it?) I guess I could type in it.

However, before the wafer tape broke I DID manage to salvage FMS, a
file management system for ESF, so at least that's something. I also
looked for ESF-MON but I don't seem to have that now.

It would be good to have an archive of Stringy floppy software
somewhere, now it can be run in emulation.

Terry Stewart
http://www.classic-computer.co.nz