28 Mar
2011
28 Mar
'11
9:52 p.m.
On 3/28/2011 9:12 PM, David Griffith wrote:
I just came across an 8086 S100 CPU board from Seattle Computer
Products and I started thinking... How much trouble would it be to
use this board to come up with an IBM 5150 work-alike? What sort of
custom boards would need to be made?
There apparently was work done in that vein by a small firm the bay area
using standard compupro boards. I scored a large S100 system about a
year ago from one of the engineers that worked on it - a Mr Gary Helbig.
Along with the hardware, I was handed 4 large boxes of docs and code
that supposedly contain the source code for a bootable MS-DOS C-Pro
system. Still sorting and scanning hardcopy but supposedly all the
code is in a set of 8" floppies that came with the system. It
apparently used the 8085/8088 dual cpu card and the CPro PCVideo card.
Steve....