I vividly remember my Pulsar Electronics Little-Big-Board.
It was an STD bus board, sporting a 4Mhz Z-80, 64K ram, 8" floppy disk
interface (1.2Mb!!!), RTC, and dual serial ports.
The board came with a full BIOS listing, as well as the device specific CP/M
stuff. I remember that you could re-link the CP/M innards to allow HDD
support (I was never *that* rich).
Spent *many* hours on that box, running Wordstar, and a cool pascal compiler
called Turbo Pascal. I used a terminal that I brought from the US (ZRT-80).
I still have it, in a 19" box, with dual M4854 (5.25" 77 Track) drives.
(Boy, it was hard to find the HD media then). The box had the bigest
storage on the block, and I was the envy of all my friends when it came out.
A mate had an kaypro system that supported dual 170K? disks. (grin) From
memory, the board cost about $500 Aus, each drive cost about $450 Aus, and
the Apple II power supply for the case cost about $35US from Jameco. All in
1985 currency.
Anyway, back onto topic. I still have all of the listings, and the full
schematics for the box as well.
Doug Jackson
MSS Operations Manager
Citadel Securix
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Archer [mailto:archer_at_topnow.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:08 AM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: BACK-OT: which CP/M machine is best (to copy)? :)
>
>
> Geoff Reed wrote:
> >
> > all of the CP/M machines I have here at the moment are
> serial terminal
> > based, I think that these are the rule, rather than the exception.
>
> Coolness. Maybe I'm asking all the wrong questions.
>
> The *right* question is: what terminal-based
> system would be good to use as a starting point/reference
> design? (i.e. "rip off and modify" :)
>
> That is: what's your favorite terminal-based
> CP/M system and why? :)
>
> Big points for:
>
> * Well-documented
> * Available BIOS ASM sourcecode
> * Available schematics
> * Particularly popular, collectable appeal (might as
> well
> emulate something people like.)
> * Unusually clever, minimalist, or just "good" designs.
>
> It would be so cool to get a fast Z180 adapted to fit
> as a superfast CP/M replica. :)
>
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