I saw a new video about the PiDPs. And it said you get them assembled at around 4:32.
Monthly Archives: May 2024
RDOS Extended Basic… I give up
I spent quite a while on this…this is the Readers Digest version. Software I started with the latest version 5.90… 071-000048-15__E_RDOS_Extended_BASIC_rev_5.90__3379__1975-1989.9trk This error (DIRECTORY DEPTH EXCEEDED: BASIC.DR) baffeled me for a while… When that didn’t work, I tried version 5.80… 061-600075-00__DG-RDOS_Extended_BASIC_rev_5.80__30569__1985-1986.9trk However I finally realized DG-RDOS is not the same as RDOS (which runs on …
Wild Hare Nova/Eclipse Emulator
Got brave and tried (without checksum) this emulator
trs80gp-2.5.3
Just noticed…Model 1, 3, 4 now accept .wav files as cassette input. One less conversion step!
Got new key finder
SmartTag2 to replace the Tile my daughter bought me. I probably wouldn’t have bought it in the first place but I ended up using it often. It started as a luxury and turned into a necessity. The Tile’s battery died months ago, and you have to replace the whole device. This new device was cheaper …
neofetch… colorful
neofetch | pv -qL 200|lolcat
DG Nova install Basic… Fail!
I thought I’d plow ahead. But at the end of the “Extended BASIC Revision 05.90 06/23/88 System Generation” I got an error saying BASICA. something didn’t exist. So I thought I’d just try and reinstall and noticed this error, on step 4 of “Loading BASIC Modules” when I tried to load the tape. I thought …
DG Nova install Basic… progress?
Perhaps I should be happy getting this far and stop. More questions (up to 24) and directories to create. It just seems overly complicated to create a basic… BASIC
Followup email about BLIS/COBOL
I wrote “Everyone’s always surprised when I tell them about an OS written in COBOL”. Bruce Ray responded “Technically, the operating system and COBOL compiler/interpreter were written in Nova assembler, not written in COBOL. It ran programs written in IPI’s COBOL language – okay, okay, a technical quibble?”. So if he’s right Wikipedia should be …
Emailed Nova Site about BLIS/COBOL
I described it as an obsecure OS. But the Guy was well aware of it. And had this interesting reply…