20 Sep
2006
20 Sep
'06
6:08 a.m.
Subject: CP/M for Fairchild F8 : resolved.
From: Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel <jos.mar at bluewin.ch>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:03:24 +0200
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
I asked around and, as many posters suspected, the box was part of a
larger system : A Sentry IC tester, made by Fairchild. That would
explain the use of the F8.
The row of DRAMs I thought to have seen was, at closer inspection, a set
of bipolar PROMs. Total real ram on the board : 4 x 2114. So no CP/M for
sure....
Still, I have never before seen a floppybox with printeroutput !
The CP/M disks (SSSD) are therefore most probably from another, unknown
system.
I'd bet they are from an old Intel MDS800 development system [big blue box].
They ran ISIS but CP/M was ported to them as the first system and standard
distrubution CP/M for years after had the MDS800 bios in the text
(CP/M alteration guide).
Allison