I have a modified dos program that talks to the data i/o its the one that they sold with the unit but only ran on a 286 or lower system the modified one i have works in windows 7 in a dos box not tried it on a win8 or 10 system but i dont see why it would not work
if your interested i can send it to you On 8/21/2015 8:05 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: > Something must be wrong here, the 29B/unipak is very easy to use. > I was the rep in Houston (USDATA) and I must have sold 50 of these. It went > for $4500 with the unipak. > > A typical demo we would plug in a dumb terminal, its a lot more effective > demo to select a device than from the keypad. > > One of these I sold to Gateway Technologies, Rod Canion. The demo and sale > went down at a pancake house on the Southwest Freeway. > They used it to suck the BIOS out of the IBM PC, and form Compaq Computer. > > Randy > >> Subject: Re: Data I/O 29B >> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org >> From: a...@bitsavers.org >> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:45:12 -0700 >> >> >> >> On 8/21/15 5:33 PM, Billy Pettit wrote: >>> This is the poorest documentation I've ever seen on a piece of test >>> equipment. >>> >> The problem is they went through at least three generations of >> programming packs (individual device, unipak, unipack2/2A/2B) >> >> There is a text file (unipak2.txt) that I sent you that lists >> about 1000 devices along with the family and pin adapter. >> >> I gave up on anything earlier than the 2900/3900/Unisite a LONG >> time ago. I'd just offer them to people in the bay area and not >> even bother testing them. I should have the docs on bitsavers for >> them. >> > -- The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended solely for the use of the named addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized use, copying, disclosure, or distribution of the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited by the sender and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail.
