12 Dec
2013
12 Dec
'13
10:05 p.m.
Not meaning to hijack, but FYI:
If anyone near the St. Paul / Mpls Twin City area is looking for an
MDS-225/MDS-800 system (white box / blue box), please get in-touch. It's
been sitting for a decade, but does include quite a few ISIS 8-in floppies,
and an Intel ICE hardware setup. Came out of a telecom design firm in
Wisconsin - it was stored after they moved to Microchip PIC stuff.
Last time I offered it for sale (a decade ago), it sold on eBay to some
dope who couldn't grasp the concept of "LOCAL PICKUP ONLY".
So here it remains.. still, looking for a new home. Cash or very limited
swaps.
-L
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 12/12/2013 08:08 PM, dwight wrote:
I don't recall what hard drive it was that we
used when back at
Intel. We used a number of Series IIs and MDS-800s. We had some
type of network so that hard drive could be shared between
machines.
I do recall that the hard disk for the MDS was *expensive*, something into
the low 5 digits. But, in general, that was true of any of the stuff that
was MDS-related.
It was possible to build your own MDS-ish system if you picked up one the
of the Multibus card cages, supplied your own power supply and used Intel's
cards to populate the system. We had a system that booted ISIS-II just
fine constructed that way.
One thing that I remember about ISIS-II is that there were no "builtin"
commands--everything loaded from disk, even COPY. The syntax was a bit
more intuitive than than CP/M-; e.g. to copy a file from one drive to
another, it was "COPY :F0:THISFILE TO :F1:" I also recall that location
4000H was a magic location in ISIS--where user programs got loaded, maybe?
--Chuck