Re: Using the real card reader
Gentlemen - than you all for your help - sorted :-) For future visitors ref - read * to read the fine from your rdr list. This is digestible -
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adriansutherland67
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#285
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Re: Using the real card reader
You need a ¡°USERID¡± card with two spaces after the ¡°USERID¡±, e.g. USERID GCCCMS on the front of the deck. Then do ¡°CP START ccu¡± On a user id with appropriate permissions. If you are using
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Dave Wade
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#284
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Re: Using the real card reader
You need to get it started. There can be some confusion because if you just enter the command: START 00C while logged on as MAINT for example, this will get passed to CMS which is not what you want
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Peter Coghlan
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#283
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Re: Using the real card reader
Have you seen this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-kFCsiqB0c At about 11m50s it describes adding a user ID card to the start of the deck (file) then goes on to show the Hercules devinit
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Steven Fosdick
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#282
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Using the real card reader
Can someone help with the recipe for getting VP/CMS to read cards and spool to a user ... I am at a loss :-( A the moment the device is drained. Thanks Adrian
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adriansutherland67
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#281
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Gregg, Sorry Gregg this is not something I have ever done, somewhere along the way, someone else added it, and it became part of the n-packs. That is the idea of the 9-packs, to allow you to use VM. I
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Gary, I don't think there is an official process because any one can share the tapes and there is no official download donation. There are quirks in the install process that aren't in the readme. I
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Hello! Um no I am not. I do have a copy of it. It is funny that you mention that you then used a TRS-80 and the daisy wheel printer that it worked with. It happens that back when Hercules was both
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Gregg Levine
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#278
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
As and aside, what is the proper steps to getting Bob's release6.direct file corrected or documented? Gary
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gdblodgett
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#277
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Hi Greg, You are missing the vm370r6-essentials archive.? It contains the following files: ??? dmkddr.aws??? ??? ??? (to restore the starter tapes) ??? dmkrio.assemble??? (supplied
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gdblodgett
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#276
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
It probably been would have been a SSD.? A RAM disk would have been volatile? memory (and fact in various VM download pages include code to do such a thing.) Full screen CMS was/is a awful hack --
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Drew Derbyshire
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#275
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Hello! I said I knew it was out there, I did not miss one. If nothing I might have definitely did so, it is because I did not download it before.now. I just did. Can you describe completely the steps
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Gregg Levine
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Gregg, You missed one! http://www.smrcc.org.uk/members/g4ugm/VM370.htm and there is an additional optional tape http://www.smrcc.org.uk/members/g4ugm/vm-370/waterloo.aws.bz2 You need to BUNZIP it ad
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Dave Wade
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#273
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Hello! So its been added to the basic system regarding the 6 Pack series? I know there's a Waterloo tape some place for the basic system and of course the dreaded additional pack tape that we know how
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Gregg Levine
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#272
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Folks, Sorry I misread the question. In VM370R6 minidisks are always CKD blocked 800 bytes. In later releases minidisks can be blocked 512/1024/2048/4096. These can be on CKD or FBA but as George says
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Dave Wade
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#271
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
"The disks are formatted into 800-byte physical records, called blocks. Logical records, which may be fixed-length or variable-length, are imposed on constant physical blocks. Space required for files
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Joe Monk
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#270
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Steven, If you are referring to VM minidisks (such as those available to a cms user), I believe that the device type is always the same as what the VM operating system thinks they are. So if VM thinks
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George Shedlock <gshedlock352@...>
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#269
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
Steven, I haven¡¯t looked at the code, but VM/370R6 only uses 800byte blocks so CKD for minidisks. I don¡¯t know how this is mapped to clusters on windows or linux, but its possible it overlaps two
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/370 Hercules Optimisation
> > Related to this discussion of performance is the virtual device associated > with a minidisc always the same type of device (CKD or FBA) as the > underlying device or can it be different. If it
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Steven Fosdick
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#267
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Re: Writing / reading text files with tapes
Thanks for posting that link to the homerow site. The precompiled vma and vmagui utilities work excellently on my Win10 system. I contributed code changes many years ago to the assembler
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pjfarley3
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#266
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