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Jason,
I have a Prism III which does not use PrismUp so some of your problem is
unfamiliar to me. However I can tell you that you do not need to run
OS/2 Warp 3 inside an emulator to get it to work on a modern computer.
I am running OS/2 on a hand-me-down Dell GX150 (a PIII) but it should
run on much newer machines. Naturally it runs very fast on these
machines. The only thing I am not sure of off the top of my head is
whether it will run on a dual-core processor.
What you need is updated drivers to handle hard drives bigger than 4GB
and probably updated drivers for video and network cards. These are all
available from the hobbes archive at
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub. For the drive
you can use Dani drivers, most likely danis506r181. The others I'd have
to look up depending on your video card and NIC. Let me know if you
want to go down that path and I'll find more info.
I strongly recommend two other variations on the standard setup. First
I use NetOp remote control software to allow me to control/monitor the
mass spec from my office. It also allows me to transfer files to my
office machine for backup and post-processing without having to buy a
(very expensive) Windows client for OS/2. The mass spec computer is
also invisible to the rest of the Windows network - which is good.
The second variation sounds complex but it was worth the effort. The
hard drive is partitioned into a c: and d: drive. The operating system
and some other software (eg a program for taking screen shots - so I can
keep copies of background scans, peak shapes etc) sit on c:. The d: has
the Isotech directory and a command-line only version of OS/2. There is
a boot loader which allows me to select which one to boot. Once the
system was working I zipped the d drive and transfered it to my office
machine. Then I rebooted into the d drive and from there zipped the c
drive, then rebooted back into c: and transfered the zipped c drive to
my office machine. That gave me a zipped copy of the whole
installation. When the inevidable hard disk crash occurred it was
pretty straightforward to unzip the images onto a new disk and get going
again in a day or so. There were some minor issues but I've forgotten
the details. (Of course the data is backed up after every run so
nothing was lost there.)
Let me know if you need any help and I hope you get you computing
somewhat closer to the 21st century.
cheers,
David
Jason Curtis wrote:
> Here is a crazy question that will not pertain to most people with
> modern mass spec operating systems!
>
> Has anyone ever experimented with or gotten PrismUp to run on a modern
> computer using an emulator? I have got it to start using DosBox and
> gotten the processor speed correct but it fails as the dongle can not
> be read because DosBox does not support parallel ports. Any help or
> suggestions of emulators would be great.
>
> I am running my Prism II mass spec with OS/2 Dual Inlet 2.4
> inside Parallels on an WinXP machine. My goal is to also run PrismUp
> with an emulator inside Parallels on the same WinXP machine. This
> will allow me to get rid of 2 aging and difficult to maintain computers.
>
> (For those who don't know and are curious, PrismUp is a DOS
> translation program that VG used for some of its OS/2 based machines
> in the mid 1990's. It runs on a dedicated computer that sits between
> the mass spec microprocessor and the mass spec operating system. All
> it does it translate commands and responses back and forth.)
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help. Jason
>
>
> Jason Curtis, Ph.D.
>
> Stable Isotope Mass Spec Lab manager
>
> Associate-In Geochemistry
>
> Department of Geological Sciences
>
> 241 Williamson Hall
>
> University of Florida
>
> Gainesville, FL 32611
>
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, office 352-392-2296
>
> lab 352-392-3344, fax 352-392-9294
>
>
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David Wheeler
Professional Officer
Geochemistry Laboratory
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong,
Wollongong, 2522, NSW
Australia
Phone 02 4221 4586 (office)
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