Altos ACS 8000-10 Diags

[Rich Camarda]

Anybody have either the disk with the diagnostics for this machine, or
the files I can get a copy of ? Or point to where they may be found? I
have the main CPU board working now and need to debug the controller,
and format the hard drive.

Thanks!
Rich

[Mr. Emmanuel Roche, France]

"Rich Camarda" wrote:

No? you have one "Altos ACS 8000-10" ? I have been searching for such a
rarity for years... Because, in the "CP/NET Reference Manual", you can find
the following sentence: "The NETWRKIF, designed for an Altos ACS 8000-10..."
in the examples of NIOSes...

Ok. I have never seen a mention of a 8000-10 before, but I have seen, over
the years, several mentions of various Altos ACS 8000 in the:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/

I am sure that they have some members who have one, else they would not talk
about it so frequently.

Good Luck!

(And don't forget to come back and tell us more about it when it will be
running, and don't forget to run CP/NET Version 1.2 from it, since it is
available (By the way, Hector Peraza wrote a CP/NET server for Linux
computers. It is available at:

http://p112.sourceforge.net/index.php?home

This way, you will have transparent access to all the files of the Linux box
from your CP/M computer... I cannot tell you more: I have never used it. If
you could write a Web page about it, you would be the only one in the
world...))

Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Emmanuel Roche, France

[Katzy]

Hello,

Rich Camarda wrote in message
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On the dunfield site:

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm

or its mirror:

http://www.nostalgia8.nl/mirrors/dunfield/img/index.htm

there is a acs 8000 image disc (system/install). Will this do?

Greetz, Katzy.

[Rich Camarda]

On Aug 5, 3:56 am, "Katzy" <ka...@noname.at.all> wrote:
> Hello,
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> Rich Camarda wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply. Yes I am familar with Dave's site and has
helped me many times. However the Diag disk is s separate disk form
the system disks and I did not find it on Dave's site.

Rich

[Roman Sigmund]

"Rich Camarda" <rcam...@aol.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi, Rich !

(i have a diagnostic floppy for my 8000-12 but can't copy it because the
8000 is dead.)
Try this link: http://www.computer-refuge.org/classiccmp/altos/8000/
There are disks in ".dmk" format. You will need the software to write this
disks which is here (http://www.tim-mann.org/catweasel.html) or here
(http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/).

Let us know if this helped.
Good luck
Roman

[microlo...@yahoo.com]

On Aug 5, 3:52 pm, "Roman Sigmund" <r.sigm...@tele2.at> wrote:
> "Rich Camarda" <rcama...@aol.com> schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:921ac3aa-d947-44c7...@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...

I used to have several ACS8000 systems. A friend *MAY* still have one
of mine in storage in his warehouse.. I'll have to check. At home
I've got a motherboard, some documentations, and POSSIBLY some 8"
floppies. I'll take a look.

[Dave Dunfield]

>(i have a diagnostic floppy for my 8000-12 but can't copy it because the
>8000 is dead.)
>Try this link: http://www.computer-refuge.org/classiccmp/altos/8000/
>There are disks in ".dmk" format. You will need the software to write this
>disks which is here (http://www.tim-mann.org/catweasel.html) or here
>(http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/).

ImageDisk has a DMK2IMD utility which will convert this to a .IMD file
that you can write directly from the PC floppy controller (with an appropriate
drive connected).

Note that in confirming this, I just discovered a nasty bug in DMK2IMD which
gets the data wrong on single-density sectors of a mixed density disk ... I've
just corrected this and updated the tools on my site - be sure to grab the
latest update (05AUG08) before you convert them.

Dave

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[Rich Camarda]

On Aug 5, 4:26 pm, Dave.Dunfi...@use.techsupport.link.on.my.website

Thanks Roman, and Dave! I will try and get a disk created this weekend
when back in town.
I appreciare the help, and will let you know if it works out.

Rich

[Rich Camarda]

On Aug 5, 1:50 pm, "micrologix1...@yahoo.com"

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Great! Thanks. I will try and create a disk this weekend per Roman and
Dave's info, but if you find a disk in your collection let me know in
case I do not have any luck.

Rich