Soroc was: new finds

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jul 2 20:25:42 2003

Bill,

   I'm not positive about the 120 having a 1802 since I've never
disassembled one but I've seen a number of websites that claimed that they
did. Search for "Soroc Terminal" on Google and you'll get plenty of hits.

   Joe

At 03:06 AM 7/2/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey Joe,
>
>How sure are you about IQ-120's having 1802's? ISTR doing a class project on
>that, studied the schematics (wish I had those now!), and concluded that
>the design was very much like a microcoded CPU - some PAL or PGA controlling
>register transfers, with a state register acting as a kind of micro-program
>counter... Now I wonder if that was some other terminal. It was 20 years
>ago, and my memory aint what it used to be.
>
>I may be interested in that IQ-130; I'll e-mail you off-list. My IQ-135 is
>actually in pieces (courtesy of UPS ten years ago). But there's a happy
ending:
>I've found somebody with an ailing IQ-135 that needs parts. I'm packing
it up
>for shipping now.
>
> Bill.
>
>
>On 29 Jun 2003, Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I THOUGHT it had an 1802 until I took it apart for cleaning/checking.
>> Then I found out that it had one of those "RARE" NEC Z-80s :-/ It turns
>> out that this is a model 130 and not a model 120. The 120s did use 1802s.
>> This one also has the 1602 USART. I searched E-bay and didn't find anything
>> related to Soroc. I searched the net and found quite a few hits for the
>> model 120 and only one hit for the 130 and that was a message that Erik K.
>> posted few weeks ago. I didn't see anything for a 135 but I did see a
>> mention of a model 140.
>>
>> > The one sitting next to me here (an IQ-135) definitely has a z80.
>>
>> Do you need a 130 to go with it? This one is interesting but I don't
>> have room for things like this.
>>
>> Joe
Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 20:25:42 BST