It's Alive, ALIVE!

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Jul 16 16:38:44 2001

On July 16, Rich Beaudry wrote:
> Just wanted to share a very tiny, but nonetheless important moment for me.
> Took a homebrewed S-100 power supply, connected it to a nice Wameco
> motherboard (thanks ajp!), threw in a Cromemco SCC (thanks Mike for the
> monitor and Control Basic), and was greeted by a wonderful "OK >" prompt on
> my terminal. "QUIT" out to the monitor prompt (":"), and fooled around a
> bit, then a "B" back into Control Basic.
>
> Not much I admit, but a working SCC, good EPROMs, and a working
> PS/motherboard... It felt really good.
>
> Next up, I added a Cromemco 8K ByteSaver II, and read out some 2708s. I
> tried to program a couple, but got stymied. I think I just need to do more
> "R"ing of TFM. Neat to finally be able to at least read them out.
>
> All I need to do is throw in a couple of 16K Static RAM cards, and either a
> Cromemco TUART or a Godbout Interfacer, and I'll be rocking a bit! Final
> test is the Dynabyte floppy controller!
>
> Baby steps, I admit, but still felt cool....

  Sounds like an extremely gratifying victory. Very cool! Congrats!

           -Dave McGuire
Received on Mon Jul 16 2001 - 16:38:44 BST