CP/M on the TI-99/4A

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Sat Nov 18 17:18:22 2000

> > different systems. There was a 6809 card for the Apple II I would
> > have killed for years ago. I'd assume these 99/4A CP/M boards
>
> I have a 6809 card called 'The Mill' in one of my Apple ][s. It seems to
> have come in 2 versions -- the cheaper one, which I have, doesn't have a
> ROM on it, and is used with a modified UCSD p-system. It thus speeds up
> Pascal and Fortran programs, but it otherwise not that interesting. The
> more expensive version of the card had a boot ROM on it, and would boot
> OS-9 (obviously configured for the Apple, and put on GCR disks). I now
> wish I'd got the latter version...
>
> It's a pretty simple card. The 6809 CPU, a few bus buffers, and a bit of
> TTL glue.

Hmm. Doesn't sound too different from the set-up in the SuperPET.

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