11 Sep
2007
11 Sep
'07
10:19 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 14:46:59 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>> Looking for the card?? Why not just build one? It was a
>> construction article, after all.
>
> ... my fingers are all thumbs when it comes to hardware
> development. I'm more
> interested in "low level" programming
This would hardly be "development"; nearly
everything in the Trump
Card design is readily available and easy to find, with the possible
exception of the Z8581 clock generator. All you need is a bunch of
parts, a blank ISA prototyping board, a wire-wrap gun, and some time!
-Dave
Just building the card doesn't seem to be impossible even for me ...
... but i don't believe, that it would be working as i can rate my skills
very well :); and for debugging, i don't have any tools available.
Maybe i'm only too lazy ...
... at least, it's quite astonishing, that nothing seems to be remaining
but the Byte article describing the card. Steve Ciarcia gave some hints
(Sweet Microsystems, Nielsen Ratings) but they didn't help; and Google
(and others) gave no reference to current owners.
Other similar cards (Definicon, Opus, ...) show up on eBay from time to
time, but no Trump Card ...
Ciao Bernd