24 Apr
1997
24 Apr
'97
6:54 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Doug Spence wrote:
Interesting. I performed the piggyback RAM hack on my
Amiga 1000 (back
when it was worth real money) and that seems to still be holding up. I
*don't* want to do that to my PET, though. :) (In fact, in retrospect, I
wish I hadn't done it to my Amiga, either - I should've bought an Insider
board instead and keept the Amiga in its original condition. I wasn't a
collector yet, though. :) )
Don't worry. It just adds character to the machine. You can just say
some "unknown" hacker made the mod if anyone asks. And don't forget to
mention it adds character to the machine.
BTW: Who here thinks I'm crazy for wanting to run
an "old-time BBS" off a
VIC-20? Who here thinks it's impossible? :)
Not me. Of course its totally possible. As soon as there are 27 hours
in the day I'm going to be putting up and old style BBS on my Sinclair
ZX80! (Just kidding, it'll be on a Linux box probably, but I'll just say
it runs on a Sinclair).
This strange contraption wouldn't be some kind of
interface between the
PET and an S100 bus, would it? (THAT would be cool!) How would I know an
S100 bus if I saw one? :)
It would have slots that have 100 pin connectors (50 on side side, 50 on
the other).
Sam
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