On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, John Lawson wrote: **** snip **** John, the only one that I have been exposed to had two 3.5" SSDD drives - Sony, IIRC, the old ones that did not open the slide on the disk - and no hard disk. It was based on the STD bus, so hardware mods should have been easy. Yours may have a later floppy, I'd guess. Rather nice little package. I would be interested to hear what HD controller they used. - don donm(a)cts.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology. Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) Z-Node 9 - 619-454-8412 *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm with Mirror at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm

On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, John Lawson wrote: Did you catch the write-up from Wired? http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/15244.html I missed all of the talks today, mostly because I couldn't take myself away from the exhibits and flea market. I will attend the talks tomorrow, including Gordon Bell's keynote, and, of course, the Nerd Trivia Challenge. ZDTV was filming the exhibits all day today, so if you get them on cable, there should be some good footage. In addition, a lot of pixs were taken, so they should be appearing on a web site near you pretty soon. In the exhibits, there were two basic themes: mass quantities and cool stuff. Uncle Roger and I exhibited mass quantities of portables, about 60 or so, including pretty complete collections of Kyoceras and Osbornes as well as a bunch of odd-balls like the WorkSlate, GO, EO, at least five prototypes, and more. There were also mass quantities of Macs, just about every model, and all of the important Commodore and Atari models. A nice collection of Suns, including the Sun-1. A nice collection of HP's, including the 9100 (1968) and 9830 (1972). An a nice collection of Heathkits, including the H-8 and my own EC-1 (1959). Highlights of cool stuff include two PDP-8's, an Apple 1, a module from the Whirlwind, a nice COSMAC Elf display, a homebrew Digi-Comp I, several MAD models, and, of course, the obligatory Altair, IMSAI, and Sol (beautifully restored and running a game of Target). Philip and Hans were there with Tek workstations and German micros. The flea market had almost as many interesting machines as the exhibit area. Kai dominated (with the list he already posted), but an Exidy Sourcerer was also sold, lots of S-100 and DEC stuff, a MAD-1, and *tons* of home computers and game machines. I bought several books (including titles from Scelbi, more early DEC paperbacks, Apple's "So Far" book, and other good stuff) as well as a few portables, an early 8080 SBC, and a nice CSA 68000 microprocessor trainer with wooden case sides (any computer with a wood case is an instant classic, you know). Oh, and Tony Cole was there selling his Cray bits. He's fishing for early micros now, so hold onto yours lest they become keychains or something. -- Doug

John Lawson wrote: > 2) A Jonos Escort portable, running CP/M 3.0. > In advance of my doing the usual WebSearch on it.. any comments > or info re: this box would be fun to hear. Hmmm, I have two Jonos computers but unfortunately no docs. We may have to get together here to see what we can find out! I do have a number of floppy disks for the unit, but mine do not have the HD.