[comp.sys.apple2] TeX & Chinook utilities Re: Determining whether a drive has "auto park"

phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) (09/02/90)

This is a retry at posting this, as it does not seem to have gone far.
In article <42237.26da2eaf@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, phs172m@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Harker) writes:
> In article <4555UD182050@NDSUVM1>, UD182050@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mike Aos) writes:
>> In article <9008241522.AA21243@apple.com>, STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) says:
>>>
>>>On Thu, 23 Aug 90 08:35:40 EST Stan Planton said:
>>>>Most "manufacturers" are really assemblers, using other people's drives. One
>>>>approach is to take the housing apart, note the model and serial number from
>>>>the stickers on the drive itself.
>>>
>>>  There is software which also gives the manufacturer and model number.
>>>I'm not certain whether it's Apple's hard disk utility or one of the
>>>public domain disk formatters, but I remember seeing the name and model
>>>of my hard drive displayed on my screen when I was setting it up.
>>>
>> 
>> Yeah, the Chinook Utilties will tell you exactly what your drive is.
>> 
>> -------
>> Mike
>> 
> This reminds me that a friend asked me to find out whether the Chinook
> Utilities have been updated to cope with the DMA SCSI card as yet?  He was told
> earlier this year that this was under way, but has not heard as yet. Apparently
> the utilities are one of the best for SCSI on the Apple 2.
> 
> On the note of software, I see in a recent TeXHaX that Albert Chin is getting
> somewhere with porting TeX to the GS. This is good to see, I remember a few
> posts along that line last year. Guess that the C compiler problems have caused
> a delay. Now that ORCA/C 1.1 is out maybe it will work out (I hope, I would
> love to have TeX on the GS).
> -- 
> Stephen Harker
> Monash University
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Stephen Harker
Monash University