21 Jul
2005
21 Jul
'05
9:10 p.m.
So yesterday (or was it the day before) I won the following Sage II computer on
ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5218919241
The seller wanted $35 for shipping, but being local, I knew I'd have an
advantage since I can just pick it up.
I never used one, but I recall them as being pretty sexy for the time. The
machine comes with no documentation. Fortunately, even though the auction
It's a reasonable 68000-based machine. It's got 2 serial ports (one of
which is used for the user's terminal), a parallel printer port and GPIB
as standard.
It's all on one PCB, right on top under the cover. Testing signals on IC
pins is _trivial_. All the ICs (anoe are custom, either) are in sockets.
The user manual, which I have, includes schematics.
Not a bad machine for hardware types :-)
-tony