27 Nov
2006
27 Nov
'06
4:14 p.m.
On 27/11/06 20:01, "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
S/hard/impossible
Of course, the drives were only sold in france so they still fetch a premium
I haev an idea mine a prototype English ones....
Heck,
even Orics / Jupiter ACEs / RML380Zs / Sorcerors aren't *that* common
I am told the Oric disk drives are hard to find.... over there. It's still possible to get Stratos
machines but only if you've
got deep pockets.
Oh well....
I am not convinced. A Tiger turned up on E-bay
recently, and did not sell
for that much money.
WHAT! Nobody told me about that.....bah! *sulks*
I'd love a Tiger, if only to complete my Tangerine collection. The writeup
it got in Personal Computer News sold it as a fantastic machine with its 3
CPUs......
It's certainly an interesting design. I'd love to find the disk
controller (or at least a scheamtic of it) for mine -- all the ROM I have
does is ask for a boot disk (presumanly CP/M).
3 CPUs is a bit of an overstatement. There is a Z80 in there for user
programs. And a 6809 for I/O (!), the former with 64K RAM, the latter
with 8K IIRC. The last 'CPU' is an NEC 7220 graphics chip with 96K video
RAM. 3 bitplanes, there's no text mode IIRC.
-tony