Funny we were just talking about Corvus OmniNet over the past few days.
That definitely sounds like the kind of connector that OmniNet used. I
have no idea if it worked with TRS-80, but I guess I wouldn't be
surprised that it did.
- Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Louis Florit
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:34 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Corvus Omninet... TRS-80?
I have a TRS-80 I got from Weird Stuffwhile I was living in Silicon
Valley.
It was the last few left from what aparently was a school 'Please take
these dinos away' disposal. Its a model IV, but has no drives. I was
tempted to gut the case, create some sort of adapter for the keyboard to
connect it to an internal PC mobo and replace the monitor as well.
Needless to say I never got around to it.
Its in working condition, (turns on, goes into basic, keyboard works)
but the case is showing its age and exposure to the elements.
While I was in the process of taking it apart to clean it up, I saw two
butterfly nuts with a piece of what seemed a cut off telephone cable, 2
leads.
I asked on the trs80 newgroup and they mentioned that it could be a now
little known networking card for a system, Corvus Omninet. This would
explain the diskless condition of the TRS-80, as it would load up its
files over the network to do anything interesting besides load up the
basic rom.
Since I didn't hack the TRS80 into the abomination I was thinking of, I
would like to sell it (cheap! take it off my hands! I've too many
computers) to someone more interested in it; mail me offlist: florit
_at_t
unixville.com
Anyone have a server for this setup? Definitely cool on the unknown
factor.
Louis
PS: I also run The Unofficial Timex Sinclair 2068 website at
http://www.timexsinclair.org
Received on Fri Jun 07 2002 - 23:52:29 BST