5 Oct
2010
5 Oct
'10
9 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Christian Kennedy
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 8:34 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: EPAY DEC Qbus Z-80
On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:16 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
Chris, it sounds like you have some knowledge of these boards. Anything else you can
share with its new owner? :-) I couldn't resist.... -- Ian
With my limited exposure to the DEC/PDP stuff,
this looks strange...
Z-80 chips on a QBus card? Is it noteworthy? worth
bidding on?
unusual? just plain junk? What would it work with/in /on?
It's one of Virtual Microsystem's embedded processor boards. VMI made
Qbus, Unibus and Nova (Data General) bus boards which allowed the
execution of CM/P and MS-DOS (*not* PC-DOS) programs on DEC and DG
hardware. The strangest of the bunch was a multiprocessor 68020-based
embedded PICK system that I ended up laying code for sometime in the
mid-80s.