11 Jun
2001
11 Jun
'01
4:36 a.m.
Well, sometimes great things just happen when you
aren't looking.
Friday night I got an email from a woman who lives 10 minutes from me. She
was moving and had a Sol-20 with a Helios II disk system and would I want
to take it?
!!!
Needless to say, I did. I'm a happy guy. Well, I
was before
I got it, so maybe I should say even happier guy.
There are two problems: although she had about 8 8" floppies, only one of
them appears to be hard-sectored, which I think the helios system
was. Second, although there is a very nice persci manual, the manual
containing the technical information (programming, schematics, theory of
operation) for the two-board disk controller wasn't to be found.
I know like Bob Stek and I, you've got a pretty complete collection
of SOLUS/Proteus News... have you thought about compiling a list
of people who were subscribers, or who wrote in, and contacting
them? I know, 20 years later, it's a long shot. Too bad Stan
Sokolow got out of it; was it you or Bob who contacted him one
month after he dumped all the PTC stuff?
Regards,
-dq