On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Mar 19, 16:29, Dean Billing wrote:
> > Subject: Western Digital PASCAL microengine / p-system.
>
> > I have also been scanning all of the WEB sights that have information
> about
> > UCSD PASCAL and obsolete and disappeared computers and I find no
> reference
> > to Sage Computer Technology of Reno, NV. They made the Sage II/IV
> systems
> > that came with UCSD PASCAL installed. They were M-68000 based systems
> and
> > probably ran other operating systems too. Anybody remember them?
>
> If you mean what I think, I have two of them (Sage-II's). A Sage-II is a
> cream-coloured box with dark grey front and rear panels.
>
> >From memory (they're stashed away somewhere) they're about 14" wide x 17"
> deep x 3.5" high, with an 80-track half-height DSDD 5.25" floppy in the
> front, and a power LED. On the back there's two serial ports, parallel
> port, power connector and switch, and some other stuff (can't remember
> what). Mine have 128K DRAM, of which 64K is directly accessible to the
> p-System, and the rest is used as a RAM disk. One of the serial
> linesconnects to a terminal (I have drivers for VT-100 and VT-52).
>
> If you want more details, I don't have any manuals (except the standard
> p-System manuals) but I could dig one out and describe it more carefully
> (ie, more accurately :-)).
>
> I've never seen another OS run on one, but if anyone has any other OS, I'd
> be happy to try it out :-)
>
> --
>
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of York
>
I have a 3-disk set of CP/M-68K for the Sage II/IV.
- don
donm_at_cts.com
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) Z-Node 9 - 619-454-8412
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
see old system support at
http://www.psyber.com/~tcj/
visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at
http://www.devili.iki.fi/cpm/
with Mirror at
http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm/
Received on Sat Mar 20 1999 - 14:24:31 GMT