ISO intel iPDS-100 w/8085 pod (UK)

[Adrian Graham]

Hi Jim,

> The latter will only let you trace but have run control to stop or do other actions (dump rom and memory spaces).  Sometimes there are tricks to dump the memory space w/o ICE, but still nice to have an idea what is going on and being able to dump registers, etc.

This is what I’m after, also being able to walk the RAM space or single step one of my RAM testing ROMs that I’ve put together. I’d love to be able to put together a RAM/ROM style board in the same vein as Dave Curran’s PET RAM/ROM board, still learning the skills required to be able to do that though.

> If you are after bit rot, however it might be nice to use.

Very much this, but bit rot caused by battery rot.

> I am guessing you put up the same complaint over on Twitter?

Yup :) 

> Do you have any parts of the MDS, or were you looking for the entire rig with the 8085 ICE?  A friend has a ton of parts from a scrapping operation eon ago, could check with him if you have a working MDS to see if he has any complete ICE for that.

Unfortunately not, and given the price that they go for these days I’m very unlikely to get one. I don’t yet have a need to access the full ISIS development suite used to build the Executel software, but being able to read the source code would be very handy in watching the machine working with the LA, I’ve found quite a few faults with them between the analyser and scope.

Keir Fraser’s Greaseweazle should be capable of reading 8” floppies and the tools are available to translate the output file into a working disk image I can extract the source files from - the floppies look to have been kept in a reasonable environment and haven’t gone obviously mouldy yet.

Cheers,

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