21 Aug
2002
21 Aug
'02
11:24 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Curt Vendel wrote:
I am planning on purchasing a Cromemco Z-2 system
shortly, it has
some special purpose Atari designed boards installed and was used within
Atari to develop Atari 2600 VCS games. However the unit is missing the
front cover, disk drive and OS software. If anyone can point me to a
site(s) with good information on the systems and anyone who may have
spare parts to sell like boards, keyboard and so forth, please let me
know, thanks.
Wow! Super cool! As you know, I have a set of these boards that I got
over 10 years ago way before I realized their significance. Which boards
did you get?
The Cromemco Z2 is a typical (well, much nicer) S-100 system. If it had a
keyboard attached at all, it would have been a parallel keyboard. Much
more likely, though, is that you'll just need to find a decent dumb
terminal to connect up to one of its serial ports, or just use a PC with
some good terminal software (like ProComm).
I can't help you with the front cover, but as far as the disk drive,
probably any single-sided, single density 5.25" drive will do, such as a
Tandon T100 (I hope I got the model right).
I have various versions of Cromix on 5.25" and 8" disks, but will have to
dig these out, and the chances of this happening in the next 2 months is
close to zero :( Is that what they used for these systems, or did they
use CP/M? In that case, again, I have the OS, but it will take a while to
dig them out.
Write me privately if I can be of assistance.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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