20 Feb
1999
20 Feb
'99
6:13 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I was digging throught the pile of "stuff"
from days of old, and find I
have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
Certainly do. Just ran across some Cromemco manuals at the Junque
shop - a HD5 hard disk and most interestingly, a Cromemco Network
Interface, dated April 83, chock full of details. Appearently they
used their own propriatary 'C-Net' (twin-ax), only does 500 kbits/s
but I guess it was cheaper than Ethernet at the time - chart
compares $1000/node for c-net vs $6000/node for Ethernet (hard to
imagine now that we're buying 100Mbps nics for <$30!)
Other finds: A Zenith Data Systems ZA-100-1 Boot Rom source
listing, Vol I, ROM ver 2.5
And sadest of all, PART of a Motorola Evaluation Kit MEK6800D2,
manuals, some classroom papers and the keypad/display only.
Scoured the store and couldn't find the cpu board. Oh well.
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com