clewis@mnetor.UUCP (03/01/85)
I obtained a 20 Mb 14 inch Calcomp Century Marksman disk drive some time ago and would really like to be able to hook it up to my S100 CPM system. If anyone out there knows anything about this beast and interfacing it, please send me mail (this is not of general enough interest for news). For all intents and purposes I have what is called a "dumb Marksman" without the Calcomp intelligent controller card. What I would particularly like is information on the following topics: 1) Is the interface compatible with anything else? (I heard a rumour that it was 8 inch winchester compatible, but that seemed only true for the Calcomp intelligent card) 2) Are the Konan S100 adapters for these things still available? - I heard that they went out of business. Is it using the dumb or intelligent interfaces? 3) If I gotta get a Calcomp intelligent card, where to I find one? 4) Is there anyone out there at XEROX (who I heard took over the Calcomp disk division) and knows about this beastie? 5) Has anybody out there got one? I have an intelligent card (seems to support RS232, SDLC and DMA) for it, but Zapsystems went out of business, and only RS232 software is present on the card. It doesn't run fast enough with RS232 to make it worthwhile using it serially, but it is a nice interface for testing the drive with a terminal. -- Chris Lewis, Motorola New Enterprises SNail: 560 Dennison, Unit 9, Markham, Ontario, Canada, L3R 2M8 UUCP: {allegra, linus}!{utzoo, ihnp4}!utcs!mnetor!clewis BELL: (416)-475-1300 ext. 321