3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
10:01 p.m.
Anybody have one of these - they were cool, monochrome but hi res (320x240, but I'm
gessing, I forgot)
A couple of neat features:
Parallel keyboard interface
Cassette interface
ROM monitor, cassette BASIC including graphics commands, line arc rectangle AND sprites!
I built a couple of these from their kit, about $200 or so.
On the subject of BASIC with added commands I think all of us early OEMs of 8080 and z-80
machines used the same technique. We dissasebled Microsoft's code, and found where
the syntax error trap was. We then jumped to our code, and parsed our new added commands.
Our product was an industrial PC based on the Intecolor. We added serial protocol and
rs232 comm commands for PLC's linked to realtime graphics for factory automation. 20
years before Wonderware, Intelution, and Allen Bradley...
aaa the days
Randy
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
From: legalize at xmission.com
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:14:57 -0700
CC:
Subject: Graphics for S-100 machines (MicroAngelo S-100 Graphics Board by SCION)
One of these just sold on ebay item # 290186096576
I was looking at it because its graphics (I have no S-100 machines),
but even had I remembered to bid on it I would have been priced out
:-).
Are graphics boards for S-100 machines common at all? It seems not.
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