14 Apr
2001
14 Apr
'01
11:05 a.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
...
CP/M-68K would be fun.
Thanks. I need to convince him to dig it out and see what it does. Maybe
there's nothing wrong with the machine, but something wrong with him!
--
Joel Ewy
mailto:ewy@south_NOSPAM_wind.net
http://www2.southwind.net/~ewy
Err, one thing about the Sage is that it's so darn
_easy_ to repair.
There is one large PCB with everything on it. It sits at the top of the
case with the drives and PSU under it, so it's trivial to look at signals
on the IC pins. All the chips are standard, off-the-shelf parts (well, the
EPROMs are programmed, of course). All chips are in sockets. and there are
schematics in the user guide.
What more do you want :-)...
That's what I like to hear! However, I was talking with my friend who owns it
today, and he didn't think it was broken, so that memory must have been an
uninitialized variable.
far as I can remember, and a Pascal P system. I
remember that it used some
The standard OS was the P-system. I think CP/M-68K was also available. I
don't know if anything else was ported to it.
kind of 80 track 5.25" floppy drives and
there was this game on it called
...
If you need a hand, I have the manual for mine alongside me, so I can
suggest tests, etc. Does it do _anything_ at switch-on?
-tony