[sebhc] Third Party drivers/support files

[dwight elvey]

Hi
Most of the time, cleanning the heads will bring things back to life
Making sure the belt isn't slipping and making sure the surface of the 
flywheel
is smooth and clean. Make sure the head stepper moves the heads easily
as well.
Also make sure the disks rotate smoothly in the envelops.
I find that on old disk, I can rotate them a number of times in the envelops
and they work fine. If it seems that the disk isn't rotating, removing the
disk from the envelop can make the difference, as a last resort.
The only time I've not been able to read disk is when the were written
on by a bad drive or were physically damages.
Dwight

>From: Glenn Roberts <gfroberts at adelphia.net>
>
>i have the software for NOGDS Color Graphics board.  Mine is the H-8 
>version (HA-8-3?). I think i have only HDOS hard sectored media as I 
>recall, perhaps that was something you had to specify when you ordered it?? 
>I think I got mine directly from Heathkit. Unfortunately my H-17 is running 
>on only one disk and even that can be flaky with the 20 year old media i'm 
>using.  But I'll see if i can get it running soon - it would be good to 
>have the software preserved on the SEBHC site.
>
>as for the board itself it hasn't worked in a while.  It was fully socketed 
>for all the IC's. while that sounds cool (easy to replace any defective 
>chips) I've always wondered if that contributed to the failure - so many 
>connections to get dirty!  It's somewhere on my "to do" list (a long list)
>
>On the subject of getting my H17 working again, i have a couple Tandon 
>TM100-2A drives. Has anyone set up an FAQ on how to re-jumper "PC" (360K) 
>style drives to replace the standard ones that shipped with the H17?
>
>- Glenn
>
>Mark Garlanger wrote:
>>Does any happen to have driver/support disks for the Magnolia
>>Microsystems "128K RAM Board"? It was any add-on card for the H89.
>>According to an ad in Remark it featured: 128K added to your 48K for
>>176K total, full compatibility with MMS & Zenith CP/M (64K) and HDOS
>>(56K), versatile bank switching supporting 3 full MP/M II compatible
>>banks, 112k "electric disk" for MMS CP/M and Ultimeth Corp supplies
>>HDOS support.
>>
>>I'm guessing that the board I have is the 128K Ram board, because it
>>has 16 M5K4164NS -15 chips. These appear to be 64k chips based on a
>>quick google search.
>>
>>If anyone has MMS CP/M, the 'electric disk' driver, the HDOS support,
>>or any versions of MP/M let me know.
>>
>>Also, I know it's a huge long-shot, but does anyone have drivers for
>>the New Orleans General Data Services (NOGDS) HA-89-3 Color graphics
>>board? It provided color, sound, joystick, speech synthesis, and an
>>arithmetic processor to the H89. Some of these were optional add-on,
>>I'm not sure exactly what I have on my board, but it would be
>>interesting to get it working in one of my systems if someone had some
>>drivers.From the ad it looks like they support both HDOS and CP/M.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>  Mark
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