Hi Tony,
>> Have you ever found software which will drive the Centronics port
>>as GPIB?....
>No. It wouldn't be too hard to write it, though...
>
>All I/O is memory mapped. The base addresses for the 3 VIAs seem
>to be....
Aha....you have detailed technical docs on the machine???
I managed to get a "service manual" several years ago but it has nothing even
remotely useful in it.... :-(
>What I was really looking for, though, was sound _input_ software. The
>hardware is almost there (you'd need a preamplifier, that's all).
Sorry, I'd misunderstood what you meant.
>Aren't they 80 track? They certainly seemed to be. Which of course means
>the heads are different to the PC drive ones....
Augh, major brain fade....you're correct of course, the Sirius uses 80 track
drives (I'd been fiddling with an XT before I wrote the message).
What I think I was getting at....is that pretty much any 80 track drive from
that era should work, as long as you can remove the analogue/motor control
boards (which isn't usually possible on more modern drives).
TTFN - Pete.
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Received on Sat Jul 10 1999 - 18:05:17 BST