On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Tony Duell 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:
>
> 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.
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.
> 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 :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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