f@Alliant.COM (Bill Freeman) (02/09/91)
I would like to get in touch with (E-mail or telephone, please do not post, if you want the same info let me know and I will forward) folks with experience with the Zilog System 8000 as a system adminstrator, maintenance person, driver writer, design engingeer or programmer (fat chance, I know), and/or other kind of guru. (The System 8000 is a Z8000 based box running a system III varient called ZEUS (Zilog Extended Unix System). It runs and for $75 I can't go wrong even if I never find out more.) The kind of information I am looking for is: Is there any way to used unformated cartridges in the tape drive? Can you get cu to run at 2400 baud (-s1200 works but it drops to its default of 300 baud with -s2400)? The meaning of the various settings of the drive type switches on the disk controller (that table is missing from the hardware reference manual)? and/or At least what the "no-default" switch settings are and the format of the drive parameter info? and/or Adding disks that Zilog didn't plan on? Is there a users group? Any luck getting: more complete controller info; schematics; driver and/or ROM source? Thanks for the indulgence of the net. -Bill (508 486-1209) -- -- ...!{decvax!linus,mit-eddie}!alliant!f Bill Freeman KE1G alliant!f@eddie.mit.edu PP-SMEL