24 Apr
2021
24 Apr
'21
12:43 p.m.
Moving forward on setting up my collection and I was taking a look at an
Exidy Sorcerer S-100 Expansion box I had received long ago. I wondered
if anyone could help with info on the cards I found inside. The first is
clearly a memory card but not familiar with the company. The second is a
disk controller and the third is a parallel/rs232 interface. I haven't
found any doc on any of them yet. If you have doc or info on the cards
or anything else about the expansion box please let me know. Haven't
tested or done any more with it yet other than open it up and look
around inside. Had this for ages but only now had room to take it out of
the box.
1) 64K Static Memory card copyright 1981 Memory Merchant
2) Double Disk controller by Jade Computer (Doesn't seem to match the
image on the doc I found on Bitsavers for their Double D controller but
suspect it is one)
3) Interfacer II Triple Parallel / RS232 Serial I/O from CompuPro -
Godbout
Links to pics below.
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-1.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-2.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-3.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-4.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-5.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-6.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-7.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-8.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-9.jpg
Thanks.
David Williams
www.trailingedge.com
24 Apr
24 Apr
1:01 p.m.
On 2021-Apr-24, at 12:43 PM, David Williams via cctalk wrote:
Moving forward on setting up my collection and I was
taking a look at an Exidy Sorcerer S-100 Expansion box I had received long ago. I wondered
if anyone could help with info on the cards I found inside. The first is clearly a memory
card but not familiar with the company. The second is a disk controller and the third is a
parallel/rs232 interface. I haven't found any doc on any of them yet. If you have doc
or info on the cards or anything else about the expansion box please let me know.
Haven't tested or done any more with it yet other than open it up and look around
inside. Had this for ages but only now had room to take it out of the box.
1) 64K Static Memory card copyright 1981 Memory Merchant
2) Double Disk controller by Jade Computer (Doesn't seem to match the image on the
doc I found on Bitsavers for their Double D controller but suspect it is one)
3) Interfacer II Triple Parallel / RS232 Serial I/O from CompuPro - Godbout
I take it you haven't found s100computers.com.
Info for the Compupro Interfaceer II is readily available there, with scan of original
manual with schematic.
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/CompuPro/Interfacer%20II/Int…
Mem Merch 64K and Jade FDC are listed there as well, I haven't looked below the link
level for them though.
There used to be another S100 site under maben-something but it seems to have vanished.
It was a lot of duplicate with S100computers but had some additional stuff.
Links to pics below.
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-1.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-2.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-3.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-4.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-5.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-6.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-7.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-8.jpg
http://www.trailingedge.com/images/ExidyS100-9.jpg
1:23 p.m.
On 2021-04-24 15:01, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
I take it you haven't found s100computers.com.
Info for the Compupro Interfaceer II is readily available there, with
scan of original manual with schematic.
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/CompuPro/Interfacer%20II/Int…
Mem Merch 64K and Jade FDC are listed there as well, I haven't looked
below the link level for them though.
There used to be another S100 site under maben-something but it seems
to have vanished.
It was a lot of duplicate with S100computers but had some additional
stuff.
No I hadn't found that site yet, thanks!
I knew of the maben site but haven't been able to access it for some
time so figured it was gone now.
Anyway, thanks for the pointer. That takes care of the cards, now just
need to find info on the expansion box itself.
This was a pretty complete Exidy setup it would appear. Came with the
Sorcerer, the expansion box, monitor, some drives. Bunch of cassette
tapes and what appears to be a speaker box of some sort with what I
assume to be a volume control on the side with an possible headphone
jack and a ribbon cable with a DB-25 coming out of it.
David Williams
www.trailingedge.com
25 Apr
25 Apr
6:36 a.m.
Be careful with the cassette tapes. Many of the pressure pads have gone bad. Playing them
can cause the tapes to get folds that will make the tape data difficult to extract. Most
tapes can be opened up and the pressure pads repaired.
Dwight
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Subject: Re: Exidy S-100 Expansion cards questions
On 2021-04-24 15:01, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
I take it you haven't found s100computers.com.
Info for the Compupro Interfaceer II is readily available there, with
scan of original manual with schematic.
http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%20Folder/CompuPro/Interfacer%20II/Int…
Mem Merch 64K and Jade FDC are listed there as well, I haven't looked
below the link level for them though.
There used to be another S100 site under maben-something but it seems
to have vanished.
It was a lot of duplicate with S100computers but had some additional
stuff.
No I hadn't found that site yet, thanks!
I knew of the maben site but haven't been able to access it for some
time so figured it was gone now.
Anyway, thanks for the pointer. That takes care of the cards, now just
need to find info on the expansion box itself.
This was a pretty complete Exidy setup it would appear. Came with the
Sorcerer, the expansion box, monitor, some drives. Bunch of cassette
tapes and what appears to be a speaker box of some sort with what I
assume to be a volume control on the side with an possible headphone
jack and a ribbon cable with a DB-25 coming out of it.
David Williams
www.trailingedge.com<http://www.trailingedge.com>
9:51 a.m.
On 2021-04-25 08:36, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Be careful with the cassette tapes. Many of the
pressure pads have
gone bad Playing them can cause the tapes to get folds that will make
the tape data difficult to extract. Most tapes can be opened up and
the pressure pads repaired.
Dwight
Be a while before I can get to the cassettes or the disks that came with
this but I'll watch for that. Thanks for the heads up, wouldn't have
thought to check them.
Seems like so many parts can break down when you get old. :)
David Williams
www.trailingedge.com
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