>> Three questions:
>>
>> Where will you be shipping from?
>>
>I'm in Denver
I am in New Jersey.
>> How much do you want?
>>
>I'd settle for a similar function for the ISA bus.
I don't have any ISA cards to give away, so I offer you $10 per card.
>What's a slave card?
A Slave S-100 card usually have some memory, a CPU and at least a RS-232
connector. What would happend is that when your system started up. Your
master CPU on the S-100 bus would load the memory of the slave cards with
something, like the slaves own version of CP/M. You could have as many of
these things as you box could fit. There were a number of way I/O to the the
users of the system could be accumplished. One was route all the slaves I/O
to the user throught the the s-100 bus to a I/O card connected to the users
terminal. The other and more tipical way what to have each user have their
termianl connected to the slaves RS-232 port. The drawback to this method
was there had to be a bus master handling all bus traffic to an from I/O
devices such as disk drives for each of these slaves since the slaves could
not do it themselves.
Compupro made a Z80 slave card that supported between 64K and 256K or RAM
that had a RS-232 port. If I recall correctly you could only put 8 of these
on you bus. But you could hack them to put as many as your bus supported.
This is the type of board I am looking for.
There was another method of placing multiple CPU on your bus. That basical
ment building a Single Board Computer (SBC) that could use the S-100
Temporary Master Access (TMA) hand shaking. The S-100 supported up to 16 of
these TMA on a bus. The advantages is the TMA's tended to use the bus more
efficiently comparied to slaves boards with requried a bus master present
servicing them. I don't know who use to make SBC that fully IEEE 696
standard for TMA access but do know that they were out there.
>I have a couple of primitive (as primitive as any S-100 board) SBC's from
>whoever made the famous SBC-100 and SBC-200. I have one of each, I think,
>and they're in unknown condition, as I inherited them from someone who was
>moving away and didn't want to haul them.
What an SBC-100 and a SBC-200 do?
Keep me in mind should you know of anyone who has IMSAI 8080 system for sale
out in your neck of the woods.
Michael
I'm not quite willing to give away my secret source yet (they're a
commercial source), but I wanted to let folks know in case anyone is
desperately searching for the following....
My source has several omnibus modules available:
M868 simple dectape control $100.00 plus shipping
M8650 console interface $100.00 plus shipping
Let me know if interested...
Jay West
At 09:32 PM 2/4/99 +0000, you wrote:
>me wants the machine code monitor. But the user in me wants to be able to
>enter text. And most people are just users.
I didn't know there *was* a user in you. 8^)
>Yes, you could get text editor ROMs for the HX20. But you couldn't buy an
>HX20 and start using it to enter text in the field. That, IMHO, is why
>the M100 was more successful.
Don't underestimate the value of a RatShack on every corner.
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It's difficult to give you information about wirewrapped boards. What,
exactly, did you want to know. You're probably right in that the backplane
is S-100, since that's what the Wunderbuss was. It's clear what the 8"
floppy drives are. I certainly can't tell you what the punch/reader is if
you can't tell. Mounting a motherboard on plywood was an easy way to do
things if you knew well in advance that you needed to "get at" the boards
with 'scope probes, etc. It saved extender boards and the associated
problems.
Dick
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> From: Mike <dogas(a)leading.net>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Help: Thinker toys Wunderbuss???
> Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 5:16 PM
>
> I have a chance to get an old system but I'm having trouble locating info
> for it....
>
> It's a homebrew (s-100??? mounted on plywood for chriscakes). Thinker
toys
> Wunderbuss, 11 slot mb, 2x8" drives, 2x(stringy?)wafer drives, alot of
> wirewrap boards... maybe a punchtape/reader :) !!!
>
> Can anyone give me more/any info on this type of setup??
>
> Thanks
> - Mike
I'm specifically looking for a power supply for a Commodore 64, but I'd
also like to pick up some old documentation, too.
In particular, I used to have the "Programmer`s Reference Manual" and a
book that mapped all of the memory locations and described the kernel
routines in detail.
Any info would be appreciated. I'm in the Pittsburgh, Pa area.
Dave McMurtrie
Actually, I meant to say "Date" not "Time".
Can't blame this on the europeans. "02/04/99" should work either way.
Actually, I assumed that it was operator error but the other apps work OK.
Since the other software works properly (IE: Profile III), I "think" we can
eliminate hardware problems. And... since the dummy behind the keyboard
(Me) is functioning correctly, that only leaves the software.
Another question: There are several sites on the net that have Model III
and IV software on-line. How do I get the software from a modern Pentium
(surfing machine) on to a diskette that is readable by the Model IV?
I also have a TRS-80 TL2 with 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 inch drives. Can I download
the software on to a 720K disk and then transfer it 360K using the TL2?
Thanks...
Steve Robertson - QA Team Leader <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail [SMTP:dastar@ncal.verio.com]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:24 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Need a copy of TRSDOS 6 OS
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Steve Robertson wrote:
> I am having a little trouble with my TRS Model IV . When I boot off of
the
> TRSDOS system disk, the system prompts for the time and won't go any
> farther. When I enter the time, it clears the field and prompts again.
Are you sure you're entering the time in the "correct" format (i.e. not
like those silly Europeans who put the day before the month?)
Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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At 11:23 AM 2/5/99 -0800, Sam Ismail wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Steve Robertson wrote:
>> I am having a little trouble with my TRS Model IV . When I boot off of the
>> TRSDOS system disk, the system prompts for the time and won't go any
>> farther. When I enter the time, it clears the field and prompts again.
>Are you sure you're entering the time in the "correct" format (i.e. not
>like those silly Europeans who put the day before the month?)
Try entering a 1998 date. The year '99' to TRSDOS may be "special" in the
sense that they code it to mean "date not initialized". If this fixes it
then you've just entered the Y2K Zone ...
--Chuck
In einer eMail vom 05.02.99 16:09:15 MEZ, schreiben Sie:
<<
John,
Hi. Do they have a website? If yes, can you supply the URL?
Thanks,
John Amirault
Jgzabol(a)aol.com wrote:
> There is a _WORKING_ 1130 at the IBM Museum in Sindelfingen, Germany.
>
> John G. Zabolitzky
>>
As far as I know, they do NOT have a web site. I believe telephone is the
only way to get into any contact with them.
John
