Collection list (just for phun) and wants

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Apr 14 13:36:37 2001

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> 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.

I have it as a 3 DSQD disk set in TeleDisk image form.

                                                 - don

 
> > 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
>
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