Re: docs or software for Quay 900 (uses Quay 90F/MPS board)

2015-08-16 Thread Eric Smith
I just realized that the toggling of pin 14 is thanks to the feature of the uPD765/8272 that automatically polls all four drives. I mostly have worked with WD controllers which don't do that. So I still don't know why the TWOSIDED/ signal isn't being reflected in ST3. I'll have to trace out how it

Re: docs or software for Quay 900 (uses Quay 90F/MPS board)

2015-08-16 Thread Eric Smith
My references to pin 14 should have been to pin 10 for the TWOSIDED/ signal. Pin 14 is the SIDESELECT/ signal which was working fine.

Re: docs or software for Quay 900 (uses Quay 90F/MPS board)

2015-08-15 Thread Eric Smith
In July 2014 I mentioned that I did some reverse-engineering of a Quay 900 computer system, based on the Quay 90F/MPS single-board Z80 computer and two CDC/MPI 9406 double-sided 8-inch floppy drives. Back then I wrote a simple monitor ROM and a floppy disk formatter program, but at the time I didn