29 Mar
2011
29 Mar
'11
11:07 a.m.
On 3/28/2011 11:05 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 28 Mar 2011 at 21:52, steve shumaker wrote:
Helbig didn't say much about the relationship although I got the
impression this was not something that Godbout was involved in - they
were simply using their technology. Buried in the disks I have here
are a stack of 5 1/4 floppies labeled "MS-DOS 2.0 OEM Support" No
idea the contents. (He included over 200 pieces of media - mostly 8"-
and I've yet to open any of them.") Much of the documentation appears to
be a mix of MSDOS and CPRO BIOS listings. The company was "G and G
Engineering"
Steve
On 3/28/2011 9:12 PM, David Griffith wrote:
As I recall the 85/88 setup, Godbout initially did not want to invest
in an OEM license for MS-DOS, so a procedure was worked out where a
standard PC-DOS ($40 from your local IBM retailer) system was used as
the starting point with a new set of I/O drivers installed.
I used to have such a disk for test purposes--but I don't recall if I
still have it.
--Chuck
I just came across an 8086 S100 CPU board from
Seattle Computer
Products and I started thinking... How much trouble would it be to
use this board to come up with an IBM 5150 work-alike? What sort of
custom boards would need to be made?
There apparently was work done in that vein by a small firm the bay
area using standard compupro boards. I scored a large S100 system
about a year ago from one of the engineers that worked on it - a Mr
Gary Helbig.