Poly 88

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey_at_hal.com>
Date: Tue Feb 9 16:59:06 1999

Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org> wrote:
> Dwight Elvey wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> > I have an old Poly 88 ( the first single button frontpanel S-100 ).
> > It has Tiny Basic in PROMs. If any out there would like to
> > fill the two empty sockets on their CPU board, let me know and
> > I'll have the parts read out.
>
> If you need docs on the Poly 88, let me know as I have the masters for quite
> a few of the Polymorphic board manuals. I don't think I have Tiny Basic in
> Prom, and I would love to get a copy of the binary file! Also, I have quite
> a few of the CPU, Video, and Disk controller boards, although most seem to
> be missing a few parts (they look like production boards that didn't quite
> get built up all the way.)
>
> Marvin

Hi
 I have a complete working unit. The Tiny Basic wasn't
original equipment. A fellow here in the Valley implemented
the Tiny Basic from the original Dr Dobs. He put the
links into it to do the Poly 88's key board in and console out
routines. I got a copy of the PROMs shortly after I bought
mine in about '79 or so. I have quite a bit of documentation
on this unit and a listing of the original Tiny Basic someplace.
We should inventory what we have and see what is missing.
 I modified my system a number of years ago to be able to
use dynamic memory boards, as per a Polymorphic ap note, and
also increased the size of the CPU boards static RAM but
otherwise it is the original orange box.
 Give me a few days to read the PROMs into a useable form.
Dwight
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