Minor Tektronix success story.

From: Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk <(Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk)>
Date: Wed Aug 19 13:00:27 1998

Tony Duell qouted Jeff as having written:
 
>> Maybe you would have been better off using an HP IEEE disk drive:
>
> Problem is, I don't think Philip has the CS/80 protocol (mainly because
> I'm looking for it, and he's not offered it to me ;-)). And without that
> impossible-to-find document, it's almost impossible to use HP drives.

True. The reason was, I have _no_ HP disk drives, but I have _three_
8050s (one working, one in bits, one badly mangled), not to mention a
4040 and a 2031 (which would also work), and at least six PETS. So the
Commodore stuff was the obvious choice.

And Tony is also right: I don't have the CS/80 protocol.

Besides, most of the problems were with the Tektronix lacking facilities
for opening files, loading and saving named files, etc.

Not to mention its asserting of IFC just when I didn't want it to...

> The Commodore protocol is pretty well documented in a number of books
> ('Programming the PET' has enough info, I think).

by Raeto West? Exactly what I used.

>> In this neck of the woods anyway, Commodore IEEE related 'stuff'
>> is pretty scarce . . .
>
> It's not that rare in the UK. I've got an 8050, 8250LP and a number of
> printers here.

Agreed. Lots of PETs were used in commercial/scientific applications -
probably because of the GPIB - and there are even books like West or
Osborne & Donahue in the library here at work.

Philip.
Received on Wed Aug 19 1998 - 13:00:27 BST