20 Mar
2009
20 Mar
'09
4:19 p.m.
Contact? Michael Louie <gohim at att.net> of Microcomputer? Solutions for the Disk
3. The will give you a good price. I think that he said that he still have one in it
original bag along with all its documentation. He definitely has two RAM-22. The other 3
he is holding for me at this time and given my thought of late to design and build my own
16 MB NV RAM I may be giving up my claim on those 3 RAM 22 boards.
Michael is a very good source for new and used CompuPro Boards.
I have a Super I/O Controller board that I got bought from Harte. It has EIDE interface
and tera byte drives a cheap these days about $90 for a terabyte drive.
The board that will be the core of the port are INTERFACER 4, System Support 1, Disk 1A
and Super I/O Controller. The CPU type I have not settled on yet. I am hoping it will be
680x0
Currently I am doing research on porting LINUX to a non-pc platform. The project is not
slated to start until after the "Trenton Computer Festival" next month. I am
hoping to find some boards of interest there. I haven't been there in more than 16
years but I hear you can still get lucky.
I will be documentation how I do the port, if that is going to be helpful.
Michael
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote:
From: Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com>
Subject: Large S-100 systems (was Re: CompuPro CPU-68000)
To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:40 PM
Michael Hart wrote:
Now that you mentioned I think I may revisit making a 16MB board for the
S100 bus for my upcoming LINUX port. The amount of headache I am
having getting what I want is becoming a bit too much.
<ears perk up>
Interesting... On my list of fun ideas is porting some flavor of *NIX to a
CompuPro 32016-based system. I've got the CPU board stashed away, and enough
other CP/Viasyn parts to make a go of it, except perhaps mass storage. I'd
have to borrow the DISK3 from an 8/16 system, or puzzle out one of the random
"SCSI" cards I picked up along the way...
Finding a 1MB RAM24 would be tough, let alone more than one. I recall seeing
other large boards advertised in Micro Cornucopia in the late 80s, but
haven't ever run across that generation (386 era) of S-100 gear since or in
person.
I might play along at home on a big RAM board project.
--Steve.