I raided Al Kossow's Corvus Concept PDF's yesterday, great stuff, a lot of
work on his behave, major kudo's to him.
Hmmmm..... The whole idea of designing the slot around the whole Apple II
design is interesting and makes a lot of sense since Apple II's were really
the mainstay of Corvus networks, IBM's came on later and Atari 800's were
limited to a 64 node multiplexing network and did not have Omninet
capabilities.
If you run across the schematic I would be willing to pay for any copying
and postage, thanks again Frank.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank McConnell" <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Corvus Floppy Drive?
> "Curt Vendel" <curt_at_atari-history.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. If you happen by a Corvus floppy in the
future,
> > keep me in mind, I'd be interested in it. Now if I can find some
spec's
> > on the 4 bus slots it would be fun to try and build a controller. I
did a
>
> Did you get any disks?
>
> The bus slots are similar to Apple ][ slots. In fact I think
> the Concept hard disk controller is really the Apple ][ Corvus
> parallel-interface hard disk controller.
>
> You probably want to webulate to
> <http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/corvus/> where you will find several
> scanned manuals including:
>
> ConceptHWRef.pdf - the Concept Hardware Reference
> ConceptServiceMan.pdf - the Concept service manual
>
> Somewhere I have a (photocopied) schematic of the 8" floppy disk
> controller too. I'll see if I can dig that out and scan it.
>
> -Frank McConnell
>
>
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 14 2001 - 09:51:15 GMT