> .... My Einstein came with the 80 column add-on
....
I've never seen one, but I've always suspected
it was a 6845 + 2K RAM +
character generator + TTL glue logic in the obvious configuration. How
close am I?
Not close, exact. The 'MODEL TK02 80 COLUMN MONOCHROME CARD' has:
UM 6845 8440 , TMM2016BP-10 , TMS2764JL-45 , a 10Mhz oscillator (may
be 16 or 18 - can't quite read it and havn't put a 'scope on it yet)
and fifteen 74LSxxx chips.
How much hardware-related info do you have? I can find
(easily) things
like connector pinouts, etc.
Absolutely none but I'm not looking further than getting an OS at the moment
- if it then doesn't work however, I'll remember your kind offer.
John Honniball asked about the disks in the Einstein - having now taken them
out of the steel box sleeve which every 3.0" drive seems to come in I can
report that they are different to the Amstrad PCW8256/8512 drives -
whereas the Amstrad are the 'infamous slack belt' drives, the drives in my
Einstein are Teac direct drive (hurray!).
Doug.