18 Oct
2010
18 Oct
'10
12:10 p.m.
On 10/18/10, David Gari <dgari at msn.com> wrote:
I may be able to help. I've worked for Morrow Designs (Thinker Toys),
Wordstar (MicroPro) and Stoneware (DBMaster). Yes, I am older than Godbout.
I have pwned two Altairs and an IMSAI. I took a tour of the giant (empty)
Cromemco facility back in the day. Sooo much promise. So sad.
Sounds like you have a few stories to tell.
My only experience with Godbout gear was using a couple of the
full-sized boxes loaded with SRAM cards, serial ports (over a dozen
lines) and a MC68K processor board - it was a proof-of-concept
prototype for an X.25 WAN router that was a logical descendant of the
CompuServe PDP-11-based serial I/O nodes (same architect, different
company). I don't remember a single problem with the hardware - rock
solid.
When the company closed, I gave a 4' stack of enclosures to a friend
in town. I should ask him if he's ever done anything with them (I am
positive he hasn't discarded them - he's not the type).
I have a Morrow Designs OEM ADM-20 terminal that I took with me to
VCFmw, but I was unable to get more than baud barf out of it. I
should hang an HP 4951 off of it to see what it's really doing.
Care to share any interesting stories from the S-100 trenches?
-ethan
18 Oct
18 Oct
12:22 p.m.
...baud barf? (checking dictionary... nope...)
steve
On 10/18/2010 9:10 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 10/18/10, David Gari<dgari at msn.com>
wrote:
I may be able to help. I've worked for
Morrow Designs (Thinker Toys),
Wordstar (MicroPro) and Stoneware (DBMaster). Yes, I am older than Godbout.
I have pwned two Altairs and an IMSAI. I took a tour of the giant (empty)
Cromemco facility back in the day. Sooo much promise. So sad.
Sounds like you have a few stories to tell.
My only experience with Godbout gear was using a couple of the
full-sized boxes loaded with SRAM cards, serial ports (over a dozen
lines) and a MC68K processor board - it was a proof-of-concept
prototype for an X.25 WAN router that was a logical descendant of the
CompuServe PDP-11-based serial I/O nodes (same architect, different
company). I don't remember a single problem with the hardware - rock
solid.
When the company closed, I gave a 4' stack of enclosures to a friend
in town. I should ask him if he's ever done anything with them (I am
positive he hasn't discarded them - he's not the type).
I have a Morrow Designs OEM ADM-20 terminal that I took with me to
VCFmw, but I was unable to get more than baud barf out of it. I
should hang an HP 4951 off of it to see what it's really doing.
Care to share any interesting stories from the S-100 trenches?
-ethan
12:24 p.m.
re baud barf... it was a paper dictionary back to sleep now
steve
On 10/18/2010 9:10 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 10/18/10, David Gari<dgari at msn.com>
wrote:
I may be able to help. I've worked for
Morrow Designs (Thinker Toys),
Wordstar (MicroPro) and Stoneware (DBMaster). Yes, I am older than Godbout.
I have pwned two Altairs and an IMSAI. I took a tour of the giant (empty)
Cromemco facility back in the day. Sooo much promise. So sad.
Sounds like you have a few stories to tell.
My only experience with Godbout gear was using a couple of the
full-sized boxes loaded with SRAM cards, serial ports (over a dozen
lines) and a MC68K processor board - it was a proof-of-concept
prototype for an X.25 WAN router that was a logical descendant of the
CompuServe PDP-11-based serial I/O nodes (same architect, different
company). I don't remember a single problem with the hardware - rock
solid.
When the company closed, I gave a 4' stack of enclosures to a friend
in town. I should ask him if he's ever done anything with them (I am
positive he hasn't discarded them - he's not the type).
I have a Morrow Designs OEM ADM-20 terminal that I took with me to
VCFmw, but I was unable to get more than baud barf out of it. I
should hang an HP 4951 off of it to see what it's really doing.
Care to share any interesting stories from the S-100 trenches?
-ethan
12:34 p.m.
On 10/18/10, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
re baud barf... it was a paper dictionary back
to sleep now
I have it in a printed and bound dictionary, but here's the online
version of that...
http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_17.html#TAG85
-ethan
10:14 p.m.
On 10/18/10, David Gari <dgari at msn.com> wrote:
I started with S100 by building my first Altair8800 sn200! Move to a
NS* Horizon
and an Netronics Exporer8085with all the add on s100 extensions.
Now my collection has those and two Compupro S100 systems one Z80 the
other 8085/8088. The z80 8mhz system has the MPX1 board for peripheral
handling
along with hard disk and Mdrive (ramdisk) plus a 256kb of ram.
The big set is that Compupro was one of the hardball systems, Cromemco
being another. Nice crates both of them and built well.
The IMSAI was better than Altair but the S100 bus would evolve to be more
than either of them started at. Bus level incompatibilities were a big
problem
early on and Dram was a nightmare until people figured out that bus level
signals could not be counted on as 8080/8085/z80 were all different.
Allison
I may be able
to help. I've worked for Morrow Designs (Thinker Toys),
Wordstar (MicroPro) and Stoneware (DBMaster). Yes, I am older than Godbout.
I have pwned two Altairs and an IMSAI. I took a tour of the giant (empty)
Cromemco facility back in the day. Sooo much promise. So sad.
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