6 Nov
1998
6 Nov
'98
8:41 a.m.
What did Advanced Micro Devices make in the late 70s (?) that ran
AMDOS/29? I got several 8" disks a couple weeks ago in AMD disk sleeves
with the following hand-written labels:
System 29
AMDOS/29
V1.2
S/N 18-0
CPM
BASIC-E
AMDOS-29
BASIC-E
COMPILE
RUN
PROMGEN 1
Some of these are obvious. I'm hoping it'll ring a bell for someone who
can tell me what they belong to.
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6 Nov
6 Nov
9:13 a.m.
I should've also added that one of the disk sleeves reads:
Advanced Micro Computers (An affiliate of Siemens)
in the same font as the normal AMD name and the logo is the same except
there's two lines inside the center of the sqaure of the logo. Here's a
gif:
http://www.vintage.org/crap
I didn't know AMD ever made whole computers.
There's a copyright on the bottom of one disk sleeve with the year 1977 on
it.
(BTW, does anyone know how to get PaintShop Pro to acquire more than one
photo at a time from the digital camera?)
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
What did Advanced Micro Devices make in the late 70s
(?) that ran
AMDOS/29? I got several 8" disks a couple weeks ago in AMD disk sleeves
with the following hand-written labels:
System 29
AMDOS/29
V1.2
S/N 18-0
CPM
BASIC-E
AMDOS-29
BASIC-E
COMPILE
RUN
PROMGEN 1
Some of these are obvious. I'm hoping it'll ring a bell for someone who
can tell me what they belong to.
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10:09 a.m.
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
I should've also added that one of the disk sleeves reads:
Advanced Micro Computers (An affiliate of Siemens)
I would doubt that Advanced Micro Computers and AMD are at all related.
- don
in the same font as the normal AMD name and the logo
is the same except
there's two lines inside the center of the sqaure of the logo. Here's a
gif:
http://www.vintage.org/crap
I didn't know AMD ever made whole computers.
There's a copyright on the bottom of one disk sleeve with the year 1977 on
it.
(BTW, does anyone know how to get PaintShop Pro to acquire more than one
photo at a time from the digital camera?)
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
donm(a)cts.com
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) Z-Node 9 - 619-454-8412
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj
visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at http://cws86.kyamk.fi/mirrors/cpm
with Mirror at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm
What did Advanced Micro Devices make in the late
70s (?) that ran
AMDOS/29? I got several 8" disks a couple weeks ago in AMD disk sleeves
with the following hand-written labels:
System 29
AMDOS/29
V1.2
S/N 18-0
CPM
BASIC-E
AMDOS-29
BASIC-E
COMPILE
RUN
PROMGEN 1
Some of these are obvious. I'm hoping it'll ring a bell for someone who
can tell me what they belong to.
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10:41 a.m.
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Don Maslin wrote:
The logos indicate that they are.
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I
should've also added that one of the disk sleeves reads:
Advanced Micro Computers (An affiliate of Siemens)
I would doubt that Advanced Micro Computers and AMD are at all related. 
10:41 a.m.
Sam asked about AMD software called AMDOS/29.
In addition to second-sourcing the Intel 8080, and offering an improved
version, the Am9080A (yes, that's a nine in the part number), AMD was of
course famous for their Am2900 bit-slice family. They offered an evaluation
board that used 29xx parts to emulate an 8080, but ran faster than a real
8080.
I don't recall exactly what AMDOS/29 ran on, but it could have been the
8080 emulator board, or some other 29xx-based system.
On a related note:
AMD had a microassembler for the 29xx parts called "AMDASM". It was
available in FORTRAN source code. I'm looking for both the
FORTRAN sources and the AMDASM user manual.
Cheers,
Eric
10:53 a.m.
On 7 Nov 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
AMD had a microassembler for the 29xx parts called
"AMDASM". It was
available in FORTRAN source code. I'm looking for both the
FORTRAN sources and the AMDASM user manual.
Well, I don't have that, but according to this note in the disk sleeve
these disks contain source for:
PFORMAT
PPROG
PLPROG
For what its worth.
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2:27 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Damn! If I found these in any place other than the Salvation Army (one of
the nationwide US charitable thrift stores) I would have found the
computer that went with them. The Salvation Army is notoriously bad at
separating out stuff.
What did
Advanced Micro Devices make in the late 70s (?) that ran
AMDOS/29? I got several 8" disks a couple weeks ago in AMD disk sleeves
with the following hand-written labels:
A System/29, I think. According to the back of the AMD data book, this is
a 8080-based computer running AMDOS (a bit like CP/M) used as a
cross-development system for the 2900-series bit-slice chips. Physcially
it looked a bit like an Intel MDS. No I don't have one (yet). But it's a machine
I would like, due to my
interest in the 2900-series chips.
Well, its on my wants list now. According to the bait corollary to
whoever's collecting theorem, the System/29 should be showing up anytime
now :)
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