Cromemco Dazzler

From: cswiger <cswiger_at_wilma.widomaker.com>
Date: Sat Feb 20 14:13:30 1999

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> I was digging throught the pile of "stuff" from days of old, and find I
> have a board-set (S-100) which is a Cromemco (remember them?) Dazzler video

Certainly do. Just ran across some Cromemco manuals at the Junque
shop - a HD5 hard disk and most interestingly, a Cromemco Network
Interface, dated April 83, chock full of details. Appearently they
used their own propriatary 'C-Net' (twin-ax), only does 500 kbits/s
but I guess it was cheaper than Ethernet at the time - chart
compares $1000/node for c-net vs $6000/node for Ethernet (hard to
imagine now that we're buying 100Mbps nics for <$30!)

Other finds: A Zenith Data Systems ZA-100-1 Boot Rom source
listing, Vol I, ROM ver 2.5

And sadest of all, PART of a Motorola Evaluation Kit MEK6800D2,
manuals, some classroom papers and the keypad/display only.
Scoured the store and couldn't find the cpu board. Oh well.

        Chuck
        cswiger_at_widomaker.com
Received on Sat Feb 20 1999 - 14:13:30 GMT