15 May
2005
15 May
'05
3:48 p.m.
At 09:45 PM 5/15/05 +0100, you wrote:
That's like mine but it only has one HH drive. Any idea if these will
handle four floppy drives? The manual says that it could handle four
The schematics in the back of my Owner's Manual only show DS0 and DS1
wired up, so I guess it only handles 2 floppies.
Left
there and went to see the guy that I'd meet that morning. He gave
me a ***MINT*** Visual 50 terminal, a MINT Sage II computer with ALL the
I haev a Sage II (the later model with half-height 80 cylinder drives), Winchester drives. IF you have the Winchester board. I
don't :-( It
Nor do I. But to tie in to a thread a few weeks back, I have a
third-party board in mine. It's fixed on pillars stuck to the main board,
and connects to the 2 50 pin bus headers. It contains a few TTL chips,
and has a 20 pin header that's designed to link to a Pluto graphics unit
(or at least that's what I think it's for). Alas I don't have any
software to drive it.
doesn't say about the floppy drives other than you
could get two drives in it.
The only manual I got with mine was the Owner's Manual, but it's very
useful. It doesn't mention much of the stnadard P-system stuff (but I
have other p-system manuals...), but it does cover all the non-standard
units, it contains schematics, info on setting up the terminal driver,
using the ROM monitor, etc.
and the _excellent_ owner's manual with full
schematics in the back. What
I don't have is an OS for it :-(. If anyone has the set of original disks
that came with such a machine, I am looking for copies (IIRC it was the
UCSD p-system, with some Sage-specific utilities).
You're in luck. I got all four original disks. I haven't looked closely
at the manuals yet but they look like they're pretty complete. I got five
manuals with it: Assembler/SDT, p-System Program Developement (I think this
compiles to native code and not just p-code), p-System Operating System,
Getting Started/Word 7 and Technical Manual. In one of them it mentioned that there was also a Service manual and a Operating
System Architecture
Manual. I have the Assembler for it and I'm pretty sure that it includes
the Pascal Compiler. They say that they also had Fortran and BASIC and
I think Pascal was standard.
CPM-68k for it so I'm on the look out for those.
I hate to mention this, but IIRC Don Maslin's archive contained CP/M 68k
for the Sage :-(
All (!) we have to do is find some way of transfering disk images to me
in a format that I can actually make use of.....
-tony