25 Dec
2010
25 Dec
'10
1:26 p.m.
On Dec 25, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Yes, a very nice design. Kinda tough to get ahold of
though. (for now anyway)
Um.. you do realize I'm one of the two people who sells the P112 kits.
We tried to take orders for a production run, but didn't have enough takers this time
around to fund a run. We do have a small number of kits available, however at the moment
I don't know how many of them are spoken for. Contact Dave Griffith (he's on this
list, or at his website at frotz.homeunix.org/p112) if you're interested. Also, as I
stated a couple of months back, there are blank boards and a very limited number of the
surface-mount components available direct from me (http://p112.feedle.net/).
I haven't been able to follow this thread quite like I would have hoped: but, it's
worth noting that if people are interested in a basic CP/M design the P112 is about as
basic as one can get, and is about as "open" of a design as one can get. The
challenge that we have right now is that the FDC chip is an obsolete part, and I don't
think there's a drop-in replacement.
It might be easier to see if the existing P112 design can be worked into a different
controller, or if a custom (preferably 'open source' licensed) new part can be
engineered. It's a bit out of my expertise, but I think I can safely speak for Dave
and say that any work towards a drop-in replacement with minimal re-engineering of either
the board or the ZSystem software would probably be warmly welcomed...