Hi Sellam,
Well, I'm pinging out to a bunch of former Atari programmers in hopes
that someone may have taken some diskettes home that might have the needed
software. From what I've been told, many of these Z-2's were hooked up to
the various VAX's at Atari and serially loaded utilities and programs
to/from the Vax's that way, but some people did backup locally to disk
drives connected to the systems. In the meantime I'd just like to get some
core functionality going on this Z-2 just to understand it better and to
play around with it as well.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: Wanted: Cromemco assistance
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>
> > > I have various versions of Cromix on 5.25" and 8" disks, but will have
to
> > > dig these out, and the chances of this happening in the next 2 months
is
> > > close to zero :( Is that what they used for these systems, or did
they
> > > use CP/M? In that case, again, I have the OS, but it will take a
while to
> > > dig them out.
> >
> > They also used CP/M.
> > There were a couple of different Cromemco CP/M formats SS, DS, ....
> > They made some dual processor systems Z80 + 68000, for a LOT more money
> > than the Radio Shack model 16 (a cheap dual processor)
>
> I'm wondering what the development environment was for the system that
> Curt has.
>
> Curt, if you didn't get any software with the machine, how are you going
> to get the Atari specific functions of the machine working again?
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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Received on Fri Aug 23 2002 - 17:30:01 BST