Bill Hicks

This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
able to get a dos disk setup.

Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.

Also, I pulled the keyboard apart on the 128, and was able to wash
every bit if it. Works like a champ now.

Bill

D Finnigan

Bill Hicks <billwebzcpm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Today I received the blank discs and they are >not the ds dd 360k ones
> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I >open the box, will they
> work?

Unlikely.

Steve Nickolas

On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Bill Hicks wrote:

> This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
> a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
> serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
> able to get a dos disk setup.
>
> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
> from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.

Prolly not. It didn't work on a GS.

-uso.

ict@ccess

On Jan 7, 3:03*pm, Bill Hicks <billwebz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
> a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
> serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
> able to get a dos disk setup.
>
> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
> from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.
>
> Also, I pulled the keyboard apart on the 128, and was able to wash
> every bit if it. Works like a champ now.
>
> Bill


You were able to transfer data to your laser to create a DOS disk
setup without a bootup disk on your Laser?

Rob

Steve Nickolas

On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, ict@ccess wrote:

> On Jan 7, 3:03*pm, Bill Hicks <billwebz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
>> a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
>> serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
>> able to get a dos disk setup.
>>
>> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
>> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
>> work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
>> from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.
>>
>> Also, I pulled the keyboard apart on the 128, and was able to wash
>> every bit if it. Works like a champ now.
>>
>> Bill
>
>
> You were able to transfer data to your laser to create a DOS disk
> setup without a bootup disk on your Laser?
>
> Rob
>

All it takes is the serial port.

-uso.

Kevin Dady

On Jan 7, 8:44*pm, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, ict@ccess wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 3:03*pm, Bill Hicks <billwebz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
> >> a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
> >> serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
> >> able to get a dos disk setup.
>
> >> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> >> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> >> work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
> >> from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.
>
> >> Also, I pulled the keyboard apart on the 128, and was able to wash
> >> every bit if it. Works like a champ now.
>
> >> Bill
>
> > You were able to transfer data to your laser to create a DOS disk
> > setup without a bootup disk on your Laser?
>
> > Rob
>
> All it takes is the serial port.
>
> -uso.

and a hacked up old style keyboard cable, or a midi cable readily sold
many places

Michael J. Mahon

Bill Hicks <billwebzcpm@gmail.com> wrote:
> This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
> a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
> serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
> able to get a dos disk setup.
>
> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
> from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.
>
> Also, I pulled the keyboard apart on the 128, and was able to wash
> every bit if it. Works like a champ now.
>
> Bill

Glad you got your keyboard working!

The HD disks are totally unusable, however.

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon

ict@ccess

On Jan 7, 8:44*pm, Steve Nickolas
<lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, ict@ccess wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 3:03*pm, Bill Hicks <billwebz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> This week, while waiting for blank discs I ordered on eBay I wired up
> >> a serial cable using an old pc keyboard adapter and a 9 pinn to 25
> >> serial cable. Using Adtpro and a few old commodore plus 4 discs I was
> >> able to get a dos disk setup.
>
> >> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> >> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> >> work? It has been so long I don't even remember if it mattered going
> >> from high to double, though I know you can't go the other way.
>
> >> Also, I pulled the keyboard apart on the 128, and was able to wash
> >> every bit if it. Works like a champ now.
>
> >> Bill
>
> > You were able to transfer data to your laser to create a DOS disk
> > setup without a bootup disk on your Laser?
>
> > Rob
>
> All it takes is the serial port.
>
> -uso.


Then as a owner of a Laser 128EX, I highly recommend a Ramfactor card
in the external slot. The RAMfactor can be set up to boot DOS3.3 and
ProDOS at the same time and set up as 1x 140 kb and 1x 800kb disk at
the same time. I have 4 of them, if you want one for a small nominal
fee plus shipping.

Rob

Patrick Schaefer

Am 07.01.2012 22:03 schrieb Bill Hicks:

> Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> work?

No, they won't. This is like using "Metal" type tapes on your CrO2 deck.
The drive will not be able to magnetize the disk properly.


Patrick

Bill Hicks

On Jan 8, 6:26*am, Patrick Schaefer <pa.schae...@web.de> wrote:
> Am 07.01.2012 22:03 schrieb Bill Hicks:
>
> > Today I received the blank discs and they are not the ds dd 360k ones
> > I expected, but ds hd 1.2 mb ones. Before I open the box, will they
> > work?
>
> No, they won't. This is like using "Metal" type tapes on your CrO2 deck.
> The drive will not be able to magnetize the disk properly.
>
> Patrick

This is what I feared. Well will complain to the seller again and see
if I can get some working disks from another source.