18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
9:10 a.m.
On 10/18/10, David Gari <dgari at msn.com> wrote:
I may be able to help. I've worked for Morrow Designs (Thinker Toys),
Wordstar (MicroPro) and Stoneware (DBMaster). Yes, I am older than Godbout.
I have pwned two Altairs and an IMSAI. I took a tour of the giant (empty)
Cromemco facility back in the day. Sooo much promise. So sad.
Sounds like you have a few stories to tell.
My only experience with Godbout gear was using a couple of the
full-sized boxes loaded with SRAM cards, serial ports (over a dozen
lines) and a MC68K processor board - it was a proof-of-concept
prototype for an X.25 WAN router that was a logical descendant of the
CompuServe PDP-11-based serial I/O nodes (same architect, different
company). I don't remember a single problem with the hardware - rock
solid.
When the company closed, I gave a 4' stack of enclosures to a friend
in town. I should ask him if he's ever done anything with them (I am
positive he hasn't discarded them - he's not the type).
I have a Morrow Designs OEM ADM-20 terminal that I took with me to
VCFmw, but I was unable to get more than baud barf out of it. I
should hang an HP 4951 off of it to see what it's really doing.
Care to share any interesting stories from the S-100 trenches?
-ethan