New subject: Geek House Clean Up

9 Sep 1999

Damn...  I've been sitting on a real s-100 exidy expansion box for the
sorcerer for a long time now (no, its not for sale) and I can't find an
sorcerer to go with it eiither...  alas

Hmm...  I'd be willing to trade a Heathkit H8 or maybe a TRS6000HD, or....
if that would pry one from somebody's hands...

;)
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell &lt;ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: Spectravideo 318

...
   Well, I have
an Apple ][ here, but I'm also looking for an
 Exidy Sorceror.  Anybody know of one in the UK that's
 looking for a good home (or a swap)?

 Is it true that the Exidy's ROM cartridge is housed in an
 8-track tape case? 
My sorceror is not looking for a good home because it already has one :-)....
...

But yes, the ROM cartridges _are_ 8-track tape cases with the tape and
mechancial bits removed and the end cut open (not very well IMHO) to
allow the edge of the PCB to fit into the edge connector in the machine.
The ROM PCB contains 4 ROM chips and a couple of TTL ones (address
decoder I think).

Hence the question on a University of Bristol computer society quiz
'Where did 8 tracks become 8 bits' ;-)

-tony

was Spectravideo 318 now Exidy Hunt