z80 timing... 6502 timing - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Apr 1999

I just never considered a computer a useful tool if you couldn't use it
until you rebuilt it (hardware or software).  That was the case with the
early TI home computer boxes.  They had totally unexploited potential for a
long time.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Sellam Ismail &lt;dastar(a)ncal.verio.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: z80 timing... 6502 timing

...
 On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> For the longest time, the TMS 9900 didn't appear in anything one could
> consider a reasonable computer.  There was one model I saw at a colleagues
...
 > home which had expansion capability, but he often
complained that cards for
...
 > interesting applications, like mass storage, etc,
were not available.  I
> didn't pursue it and so I believe(d) it to be true.  I saw one ad for an
> SC/MP, in '77, but that one was a homebrewed model.  Other than that, it
was
...
 > not of much interest here.  Was that not the case
in Germany?  The processor
...
 > was still in National's data book, but I
really wasn't then and am not now
...
 > of any operating system or application software
for it.    I don't believe I
...
   ever saw a
real SC/MP based computer. 
Richard, the rest of the world does not peer through the same blinders you have on.
...

Sellam                                    Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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