29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
4:02 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: Why is it that ...
Also not hard to find is a TI-99/4A with Peripheral Expansion Box, 32K RAM
card, Disk controller and drive (all of these will be in most PEBs you
find) and a P-code card and software (these turn up on eBay every now and
then). As with the Apple, it's possible to run the system with one drive,
but it's _much_ nicer with two. The only annoying thing about the P-code
card is that it "takes over" the PEB; to boot the system as a 99/4A you
have to pull the card. There is a hack to add a switch to the P-code card
to disable this; the details are somewhere in my basement, awaiting a quiet
winter afternoon with a soldering iron.
Mark.
I suspect that by far the most common P-system-capable machine is the
Apple ][ with a language card. Finding one of those is not going to be
hard.