TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia
A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago. ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:18 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
You can also try here bitsavers.org/bits/TI/990/TX990_TXDS_2.0/ ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:27 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago. ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:18 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him? -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:30 PM Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
You can also try here bitsavers.org/bits/TI/990/TX990_TXDS_2.0/
OK. Thanks! I will pass this along to them and see what they say.
________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Kelly Leavitt via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:27 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia
They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago.
________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:18 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia
A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him?
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:27 PM Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org> wrote:
They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago.
So are you saying that since it is the same CPU, then it should be able to use the same disks?
------------------------------ *From:* vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 19, 2020 2:18 AM *To:* vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> *Cc:* Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> *Subject:* [vcf-midatlantic] TI DS990/1 OS - Request from VCF Italia
A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him?
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:17 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:27 PM Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org> wrote:
They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago.
So are you saying that since it is the same CPU, then it should be able to use the same disks?
A simple Google search shows that these ran something called DX10 and DNOS. You need those disks. I seriously doubt anything else would work without knowing how to gen an OS for the 9900 processor, disk controller, etc. VCF Italia is looking for DNOS disks. Look in the CVFed software libraries for 8" disks that say DX10 or DNOS on them. Fire up the DS990 that Kelly rescued and copy the disk and mail to Italy. I'd do it but my DS100 got torched during the unicorn milking machine fire of 2009. Bill
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:09 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 10:17 AM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:27 PM Kelly Leavitt <kelly@catcorner.org> wrote:
They use the same CPU as the TI/990 there should be some disks at infoage from the TI/990 rescue I did from Wayne Verderber 8 years ago.
So are you saying that since it is the same CPU, then it should be able to use the same disks?
A simple Google search shows that these ran something called DX10 and DNOS. You need those disks. I seriously doubt anything else would work without knowing how to gen an OS for the 9900 processor, disk controller, etc. VCF Italia is looking for DNOS disks.
Look in the CVFed software libraries for 8" disks that say DX10 or DNOS on them. Fire up the DS990 that Kelly rescued and copy the disk and mail to Italy. I'd do it but my DS100 got torched during the unicorn milking machine fire of 2009.
Thanks Bill! I will take a look. You will have to tell me the story about the unicorn milking machine fire of 2009 someday!
Bill
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
OK. Updating this thread. I found a TI 990 machine in the warehouse and am looking for disks. This seems to be the larger version of the machine and not the /1. The Italian guy (Piero Andreini) is looking for TX 5 for the TI 990/1 which looks like a desktop computer. Piero says that there are no disk images available on websites nor manuals that he could find. He said he needsTX 5 operating system and TPL. As I continue my search in the warehouse now that I have a better idea of what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any sources of getting this OS? On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 2:18 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him?
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
Here are some brochure describing the system: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a98dwt8ubsex129/AADOCHqU3EZWlD5gOwD0Ud-Ga?dl=0 On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 2:18 AM Jeffrey Brace <jeffrey@vcfed.org> wrote:
A member from VCF Italia is looking for an operating system for the Texas Instruments DS990/1 with 8" FD1000 floppy drive. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find it for him?
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeffrey@vcfed.org
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