1 Nov
2006
1 Nov
'06
12:54 p.m.
Chris M wrote:
a little off-thread, but were there any peecees made
in the UK that didn't use proprietary logic (asics and
such)?
I had one from Ferranti like that. It was a real oddball - huge case, two
power supplies (+5V from one, other voltages from the other), and two main
PCBs (one housing the backplane and a bunch of logic, the other for the CPU
and built-in ports). It had at least memory, serial, keyboard and parallel
built in - and I'm fairly sure it had MDA graphics and a FDC too. I believe it
had something like 4 8-bit ISA slots, plus a much larger custom slot for
unknown usage.
Unfortunately I never had original software for it and never got it to boot
with any of the versions of either IBM or MS DOS that I tried. In terms of IBM
compatibility, I'm leaning toward 'not very'.
Sadly it went to landfill about 5 years ago (although I did try to get rid of
it on here first!). On a brighter note I've since stumbled across an identical
machine at Bletchley though - although I've not yet seen any software or
manuals for that one either!
cheers
Jules