29 Aug
2012
29 Aug
'12
12:10 p.m.
There were, it
seems, various Torch Z80 addons for the BBC Micro.
Yes, quite a few - plus various self-contained machines which used the BBC
board as an I/O processor. Most of them vanished to landfill years ago, it seems, and are quite rare these days (mainly because
they didn't have any
particular following back in the day, so nobody kept hold of them).
I've still got examples of all their boards, and a Graduate, and I think I
kept a 725 - but I got shot of my disc packs[1] and C-series machine.
_All_ their boards? I am impressed. A quad-X is not at all easy to find...
As for the
Tatung, I've found very little info on XTal DOS, apart from
something calling it " a compatible but beefed-up version of CP/M
called Xtal DOS."
Yes, no experience there myself... I think I've only ever used an Einstein
for about 5 minutes :)