8089 was Re: Hyperion Passport, Apricot, Convergent Technologies workSlate,

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Dec 30 19:31:53 1999

   

At 10:04 PM 12/30/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>

>a strange machine -- one of the few MS-DOS boxes to use an 8089 I/O
>coprocessor (which I why I got interested in it -- nice chip).

  Hi Tony, I have an 8089 in a CPM machine but I haven't been able to find
out much about that chip. What can you tell me about it?

  FWIW the same machine has ECC memory controller in it too but I don't
remember it's number. Memory is in banks of 11 ICs!

   Joe
Received on Thu Dec 30 1999 - 19:31:53 GMT