26 Mar
2000
26 Mar
'00
8:48 a.m.
Hi Tony,
Hmmm, I'm racking my brains but I don't recall any external unit. For some
reason I seem to recall both cassette recorders attaching to seperate DIN
sockets on the back of the machine...?
But then again my memory of this is very hazy....it was 1979....
Yep, that's exactly what happened....we obviously got a machine which was
intended for someone else....
I do recall
though that at one point we had a pair of cassette
recorders running on the machine....
Do you have any memories of the 'dual cassette controller'.... All the CP/M
based machines were 32K machines....apart from one
which had been mistakenly shipped with 64K. :-)
Hmmm... Unlikely...
The 380Z used 4116 16K DRAMs....
Are you saying that RML shipped machines with extra boards in
them??? Oh yes... The 380Z had no backplane. You slotted the
boards into
card guides that were fixed to the bottom of the case. And then ran
a 50 wire ribbon cable that carried all signals....
Yes, we had the top off ours numerous times.
I remember reading an article on the machine where they went into quite a
bit of detail on the bus....including how to build your own boards.
I *THINK* I recall them remarking how similar the bus was to the SS-50 bus,
BICBW.
I have one -- somewhere...
Believe me, I know the problem....
TTFN - Pete.
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Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer.
Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC)
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