28 Nov
2005
28 Nov
'05
10:39 p.m.
Back from break, finally. Apologies for delays in response.
(My first child, a son, was born a week ago... I'm up to my neck in "What
the hell have I gotten myself into?")
Now that is funny... I'm pretty sure Anthony was the name of the chap I
picked the Vector up from, and the serial number lines up - so I guess
thats the same machine.
The internet never forgets!
The documentation does not mention MP/M, I'm fairly certain that it runs
multiple copies of CP/M, as Mike Stein suggests.
The floppy drive is a Tandon unit, although I've yet to pry it out enough
to identify which model number. Thankfully some very helpful chaps around
have offered to line me up with appropriate CP/M boot disks (Gord & Mike
rock), so I'm a happy chappy for now.
The FlashWriter is a pretty clever piece of toy, and I'm fairly confident
I can build a terminal for it easily enough. The FlashWriter II rev 4 (as
I have) can spit out composite video with a jumper setting, and uses a
parallel ASCII keyboard, which I'm going to use a Ubicom SX20
microcontroller to translate between a PS/2 keyboard and such.
Thanks all for your help;
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/23/2005 at 2:21 PM JP Hindin wrote:
The thing is a pretty nifty set up, to be honest,
I didn't know it was
nearly so cool ;)
Isn't this whole thing deja vu all over again--only 6 years later?
http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1999-May/127508.html
This was almost certainly an MP/M II system.
FWIW, if you're wondering about the Flashwriter cards, there's a MDM7
overlay for them wandering around on the web.
Cheers,
Chuck