hermit@ssyx.ucsc.edu (William R. Ward) (02/23/89)
I'd like to find a copy of Kermit for an ACI-1 computer (Alspa Computers, a defunct company which used to be in Santa Cruz). The ACI runs on 8" soft-sectored single-sided floppy drive(s), using an IBM-compatible double- density format. It doesn't have any form of transfer protocol (besides PIP) so transferring a file is rather difficult. Does anyone out there in USENET-land know where I can score a copy of Kermit for this machine? I have Kermit on my Commodore 128, but it's a specialized version to handle the bizarre RS232 implementation in the 128 and probably only works with CP/M Plus anyway. Please send mail to hermit@ssyx.ucsc.edu if you have any info. Thanks in advance. -- If creative thoughts could cause sparks, dynamite could safely be stored in this establishment. William R. Ward <hermit@ssyx.ucsc.edu>
bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) (02/25/89)
In article <6441@saturn.ucsc.edu> hermit@ssyx.ucsc.edu (William R. Ward) writes: >I'd like to find a copy of Kermit for an ACI-1 computer (Alspa Computers, >a defunct company which used to be in Santa Cruz). The ACI runs on 8" >soft-sectored single-sided floppy drive(s), using an IBM-compatible double- >density format. It doesn't have any form of transfer protocol (besides PIP) >so transferring a file is rather difficult. William, I do not have kermit for the Alspa, but I do have MDM740, which I use extensively on my ACI-2DS. It handles MODEM7/XMODEM protocol, and supposedly batch mode (which I've never seen work, but I don't know if it's MDM740 or the unix xmodem I'm using...). Let me know if you would like this - it is at least *a* file transfer protocol... BTW, who ported CP/M 3.0 to the system? That was never done while I worked there, and after I left the company sank all its efforts (and everything else) into the ACI-Zero! (Or is that the BIOS revision number? If the latter, you might be interested in v3.6 - I've done numerous improvements to it in the past few years, including ZCPR3 and P2DOS compatibility..) -- William Swan ..!tikal.Teltone.COM!sigma!bill Innocent but in prison in Washington State for 13.5 years: Debbie Runyan: incarcerated 01/1989, scheduled release 07/2002. In now: 0 years, 1 month, 0 weeks, 4 days.