On Apr 13, 16:42, Joel Ewy wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > Sage II
> Sage II -- I wonder if that's the same Sage that I'm aware of.
[...]
> It had an MC68000 and ran it's own proprietary operating system, as
> far as I can remember, and a Pascal P system. I remember that it used
> some kind of 80 track 5.25" floppy drives
I'm sure that's the same one. I didn't know about a proprietary OS, I've
only seen p-System on them, but I think you could get CP/M-68K. I met
someone who claimed to have CP/M-68K for a Sage but when pressed, he
couldn't find the Sage version.
> and there was this game on it called
> "Kings & Castles." It was just a little metal box with text terminals
> hooked up to it, I believe.
Yes, it has two (? I can't see it to check) RS232 ports for terminals, a
printer port, and an IEEE-488 port.
> Every now and then my friend and I talk
> about trying to get the thing to run again so we can play that game.
Probably not hard. It's a simple layout, it only uses standard ICs, and
it's easy to get into and get at the PCB.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sat Apr 14 2001 - 05:12:29 BST