Hi at all,
in the newsgroup comp.os.cpm, more than 10 years ago, there has been a
little discussion about the varying of SBC Ferguson BigBoard 1.
Below i indicate where to find all topics availabe also at this address:
http://elazzerini.interfree.it/FERGUSON BIGBOARD's Daughters.doc
The folks were: Alastair S. Preston, bill_h, David Tweed, Don Maslin, Holger
Petersen, Max, O. Alan Jones, Paul Lenz, and Scott Marti.
I'm interested to know better those SBC varying: schematics, layout,
pictures, EPROM listing, experiences, and so on to try to assemble those
info in my website:
http://elazzerini.interfree.it even with link to other
materials across internet. Here you can find the entire discussion in word
format in my website.
Those SBC were:
- JLS Computers (aka Vidtek). produced in Toronto similar to SBC BB1
supported through the Micro/Access online BBS system;
- California something or other name: Bill Sigmund and another
fellow who got Ferguson to 'fix' most of the shortcomings of the original BB
and the Xerox 820 from the SBC BB1;
I'm interested also to get contact with who have or had BBII came with
VARBIOS and ZCPR3... Twente Digitaal in the
Netherlands.
Some info seems to be on a magazine called Computing Now!, the Canadian
computing magazine.
Is anybody who could help to find some issues (already scan on internet)??
At this moment I prefer to leave out from my searches the Kaypro and the
Xerox 820 already WELL documented on Internet.
Bigboard motherboard
1 O. Alan Jones 8 Feb 1998
2 David Tweed 9 Feb 1998
3 timolmst 9 Feb 1998
4 Don Maslin 9 Feb 1998
5 Alastair S. Preston 9 Feb 1998
6 bill_h 9 Feb 1998
7 Paul Lenz 11 Feb 1998
8 bill_h 12 Feb 1998
9 Max 13 Feb 1998
10 bill_h 13 Feb 1998
11 Don Maslin 13 Feb 1998
12 Paul Lenz 14 Feb 1998
13 Alastair S. Preston 12 Feb 1998
14 Max 13 Feb 1998
15 Max 13 Feb 1998
16 Holger Petersen 10 Feb 1998
Thanks for any kind of support.
Regards
Enrico - Pisa - Italy