29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
8:14 p.m.
On Nov 29, 23:12, Tony Duell wrote:
> > There's also a thing called a Sage II.
I've only ever seen 2 of them. One of my mad
friends (who I happened to
be with) and I got them for a very low price...
This machine has one of the best user manuals I've seen. It's got
schematics, parts lists, etc in it. And, it's easy to repair because
_all_ ICs, even the TTL glue, are in sockets. Apart from the EPROMs
(which contain a machine code monitor and disk bootstrap), every chip is
stnadard.
Yes, they're nice. I have one left -- I had four, but sold or gave the
rest away. All the ones I've seen had one DSDD 80-track 5 1/4" floppy, but
I beleive there was a hard disk option. I never had a manual, though, nor
CP/M 68K.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York