5 Feb
2008
5 Feb
'08
10:43 a.m.
Around 1981-1985 a friend loaned me a Piece of Equipment. It has a S-100
Bus with five slots Horizontal in the Back. I had a regular Keyboard and
a Hex Keypad. I remember I cold enter in Hex Code and was able to Access
a FDC to test it.
Can't be sure of the MFG. But Xpandor comes to mind. My Friend says SOL.
Does this ring a bell with anyone
TIA
Bob in Wisconsin
5 Feb
5 Feb
10:53 a.m.
--- "Robert J. Stevens" <trebor72 at execpc.com> wrote:
Around 1981-1985 a friend loaned me a Piece of
Equipment. It has a S-100
Bus with five slots Horizontal in the Back. I had a
regular Keyboard and
a Hex Keypad. I remember I cold enter in Hex Code
and was able to Access
a FDC to test it.
Can't be sure of the MFG. But Xpandor comes to mind.
My Friend says SOL.
Does this ring a bell with anyone
Well, it does sound like a Sol-20. Was it blue? The
Sol-20 has five horizontal S-100 slots in the back,
and a built in keyboard. Check out www.sol20.org.
-Ian
9:36 p.m.
Robert J. Stevens wrote:
Around 1981-1985 a friend loaned me a Piece of
Equipment. It has a S-100
Bus with five slots Horizontal in the Back. I had a regular Keyboard and
a Hex Keypad. I remember I cold enter in Hex Code and was able to Access
a FDC to test it.
Can't be sure of the MFG. But Xpandor comes to mind. My Friend says SOL.
Does this ring a bell with anyone
TIA
Bob in Wisconsin
Bob,
The Sol or the Expander could both fit the description. The Sol was FAR
more common, though. Neither had a hex keypad -- both had numeric
keypads to the right of the main keyboard. Also, both were designed in
part (Sol) or whole (Expander) by Lee Felsenstein.
Sol:
http://www.sol-20.org (among many)
Expander:
http://www.corestack.com/machines/expander.html
I don't know about the Expander, never having used one, but the Sol has
a small (2K) ROM monitor where you can ENTER hex, jump to a memory
location, load/save from/to cassette. Booting a northstar floppy system
was just jumping to the boot ROM (commonly at E800).
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