Questions about Central Point Deluxe Option board

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jun 30 15:33:40 2002

At 06:39 PM 6/30/02 +0100, you wrote:
>
>"Peter C. Wallace" wrote:
>> Actually it seems to me that if you wanted to create a universal
>> floppy controller, the whole FDC + bus interface would fit easily in a <$20
>> FPGA (with maybe some small amount of external SRAM).
>
>Actually, I didn't notice any RAM on the board that was scanned
>and put up on the web. But I did notice a little 8-pin chip that
>I didn't recognise. A Google search for "UM8326" revealed
>this information about a board called "Transcopy":
>
> http://dbz.icequake.net/oldskool/dob/transcopy.html
>
>Is this actually the same hardware?
>

    Yeap, that's it! His screen shots of the Transcopy screens look just like what I remember. Does does picture of the original box. It you go to the next higher lever on his website he has some good info on the copy boards.

    Joe

>--
>John Honniball
>coredump_at_gifford.co.uk
>
Received on Sun Jun 30 2002 - 15:33:40 BST

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