8 May
1998
8 May
'98
6:15 a.m.
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
<But I remember one computer from the early
80's (don't remember the name)
<where the floppy was the computer -- a small SBC mounted on top of the
<floppy, and that's all there was.
AmproLB a complete z80, 64k, 2serial, printer port and SCSI on a board
the size of a 5.25" floppy. I have one.
I also have a SB180 that is faster with 4x the ram on a card half the
size.
Neither stepped around the problem by putting all of the base software on
rom. The EPSON PX-8 did. I also did it for a s100 system years before
that. With EPROMS, EEProms and Flash ram as dense as they are a 1.44mb
floppy seems a lot of work.
Allison
I learned from a friend who picked it up (for $3.10) at the swapmeet that
HP made a lunchbox that had HP-UX all in ROM. No drives in the box.
- don