20 Feb
1999
20 Feb
'99
4:50 a.m.
I was digging throught the pile of "stuff" from days of old, and find I
have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
board set. I don't remember using this for anything. What probably
happened is that I read the doc's and determined it was indadequate for my
purpose and set it aside . . . the box (the cardboard box in which it was
pacakged by Cromemco, looks like sh*t but the contents were apparently
unharmed by the passage of 20 years, of which most were spent in the junk
pile.
Is anyone interested?
Dick
20 Feb
20 Feb
5:30 a.m.
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I was digging throught the pile of "stuff"
from days of old, and find I
have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
board set. I don't remember using this for anything. What probably
happened is that I read the doc's and determined it was indadequate for my
purpose and set it aside . . . the box (the cardboard box in which it was
pacakged by Cromemco, looks like sh*t but the contents were apparently
unharmed by the passage of 20 years, of which most were spent in the junk
pile.
The Dazzler produces a 128X128 resolution color raster image on a color
monitor, or TV set if you use an RF modulator. It was the second board
that Cromemco produced.
Is anyone interested?
Sounds like something interesting to put in this Cromemco computer that i'm
upgrading, so i'd be interested in it. Do you have the documentation, or
any of the software (the game of life, kaleidoscope, dazzle writer)
-Lawrence LeMay
9:13 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I was digging throught the pile of "stuff"
from days of old, and find I
have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
Certainly do. Just ran across some Cromemco manuals at the Junque
shop - a HD5 hard disk and most interestingly, a Cromemco Network
Interface, dated April 83, chock full of details. Appearently they
used their own propriatary 'C-Net' (twin-ax), only does 500 kbits/s
but I guess it was cheaper than Ethernet at the time - chart
compares $1000/node for c-net vs $6000/node for Ethernet (hard to
imagine now that we're buying 100Mbps nics for <$30!)
Other finds: A Zenith Data Systems ZA-100-1 Boot Rom source
listing, Vol I, ROM ver 2.5
And sadest of all, PART of a Motorola Evaluation Kit MEK6800D2,
manuals, some classroom papers and the keypad/display only.
Scoured the store and couldn't find the cpu board. Oh well.
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com
21 Feb
21 Feb
6:21 p.m.
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:
I have some Mac Nubus cards with a switch that selects Cnet or normal
ethernet.(might be token, I could look if anyone was real curious).
I was digging throught the pile of
"stuff" from days of old, and find I
have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video
Certainly do. Just ran across some Cromemco manuals at the Junque
shop - a HD5 hard disk and most interestingly, a Cromemco Network
Interface, dated April 83, chock full of details. Appearently they
used their own propriatary 'C-Net' (twin-ax), only does 500 kbits/s
but I guess it was cheaper than Ethernet at the time - chart
compares $1000/node for c-net vs $6000/node for Ethernet (hard to
imagine now that we're buying 100Mbps nics for <$30!) 
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