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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : little help?
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CaptainBoing Guru  Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2171 |
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/01/oz_retro_computer_collection_in_dire_straits_bulldozers_on_horizon/ |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9753 |
Crikey.....  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2971 |
Hey All, I see a copy of `How to program the Z80' by Rodnay Zaks.. I think I still have my copy lying around here somewhere.. It was my bible back in the `80s' Sad I hope someone rescues the collection. Kind Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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Azure Guru Joined: 09/11/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 446 |
I am not sure how they reached out before now or if arranged circumstances changed. It seems a little late given the stuff they have to clear out, find homes for and the time left to do it. Dave at EEVBlog did this walkthrough of the storage space. |
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| bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2971 |
Thanks Azure, I loved that clip. Kind Regards, Mick Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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| Azure Guru Joined: 09/11/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 446 |
Dave at EEVBlog also posted this second video, after he left his tripods there and had to go back. They should just scrap all the newer gear especially monitors and focus on the historic equipment and documentation/disks/tapes/cards. |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2171 |
+1 what is the point of keeping an example of every far eastern 386MHz PC clone that flooded the market in the 90s? |
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panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1116 |
Speaking about old kit, anyone out there have an operational cp/m system with 8" dsdd floppy disk drives? I have a pile of 8" floppies that I woulke to recover the data from (cp/m source, assemblers, compilers, zpr3, microsoft programs etc.). Doug. ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1314 |
Check out this second video at the 06:50 point. Amazing. :-) Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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OA47 Guru Joined: 11/04/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1013 |
Don, do we class you as Historic Equipment as well? Regards OA47 |
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Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5157 |
I think we could classify Don as a Historic Equipment of national significance! I do hope they can preserve as much as possible. Even items from the last 20 years would be of interest, like a Viewsonic SVGA monitor, I repaired dozens of those but cant remember the last time I saw one. Once I had several dot matrix printers, but realise now I dont have any, and wish I had kept at least one. Things disappear before you realise they are going, and then you miss them. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| bigmik Guru Joined: 20/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2971 |
Don, OMG, I just about fell out of my chair... Well I do that a lot these days.. I was hoping to see the photo I took of the DonMon screen, that you included in your instructions, but alas the glory was all yours.. You most certainly were/are. I reckon 3 Cheers Don..  Enjoy your retirement.. Kind Regards, Mick EDIT** But at least we have one up on Dave.. We both know what the LNW board was.. I myself must have made up 50 or more of the darn things.. They were a third party expansion interface for the TRS-80 and I made a mod for the System-80/PMC-80 to provide a 40 pin interface (they had an S50 external Interface) so they could be used on them as well. They provided an extra 32kB of Ram (to take the max to 48kB), a printer interface, serial interface and most importantly a Floppy Drive interface.. Now my memory fails me... Did the LNW also have a HDD interface? Mik Edit 2 ** No it didnt have a Hdd interface.. I just checked using Dr Google.. LNW Expansion MG Mick's uMite Stuff can be found >>> HERE (Kindly hosted by Dontronics) <<< |
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| Azure Guru Joined: 09/11/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 446 |
Not quite a Hard Disk, but it did have a cassette tape interface  |
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| Bizzie Senior Member  Joined: 06/07/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 192 |
Panky and anyone else interested. I have two Sorcerer cmp machines I believe. If anyone wants a challenge. No floppies though.  One in original box!  Rob White |
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| donmck Guru Joined: 09/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1314 |
Aha, the Exidy Sorcerer. A Z80 CPM machine with the then new S-100 bus that looked extremely promising, however, it came out at a time when IBM was launching the NEW PC XT format, and every Asian manufacturer and his dog jumped onto the PC platform, and the world once again had changed. Cheers Don... https://www.dontronics.com |
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