new finds :-)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jun 29 20:10:01 2003

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

At 01:22 AM 6/28/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:53:29, Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>> Visted one of my favorite scrounging places today and found a Otrona
>> Attache and a Soroc Terminal (1802 CPU :-) :-) Also got two shugart 851 8"
>> floppy drives, an IC Master (1988) a stack of DRI CPM manuals, a DEC PDP-8
>> handbook and a notebook full of Mostek computer board manuals. Oh and an
>> AIM-65 User's Guide.
>
>Are you sure about the Soroc having an 1802? Which model of Soroc? I
>thought Sorocs used z80s. The one sitting next to me here (an IQ-135)
>definitely has a z80. It does have a 1602 UART though...
>
>Speaking of which, how many Sorocs are still out there? Were they as
>common in the rest of the world as they seemed in my corner of it? I
>hardly ever hear of them anymore, even on e-bay.
>
> Bill.
Received on Sun Jun 29 2003 - 20:10:01 BST