On July 16, Rich Beaudry wrote:
Just wanted to share a very tiny, but nonetheless
important moment for me.
Took a homebrewed S-100 power supply, connected it to a nice Wameco
motherboard (thanks ajp!), threw in a Cromemco SCC (thanks Mike for the
monitor and Control Basic), and was greeted by a wonderful "OK >" prompt on
my terminal. "QUIT" out to the monitor prompt (":"), and fooled
around a
bit, then a "B" back into Control Basic.
Not much I admit, but a working SCC, good EPROMs, and a working
PS/motherboard... It felt really good.
Next up, I added a Cromemco 8K ByteSaver II, and read out some 2708s. I
tried to program a couple, but got stymied. I think I just need to do more
"R"ing of TFM. Neat to finally be able to at least read them out.
All I need to do is throw in a couple of 16K Static RAM cards, and either a
Cromemco TUART or a Godbout Interfacer, and I'll be rocking a bit! Final
test is the Dynabyte floppy controller!
Baby steps, I admit, but still felt cool....
Sounds like an extremely gratifying victory. Very cool! Congrats!
-Dave McGuire