Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!POURNE@mit-mc From: POURNE%mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: FDC Recommendations Message-ID: <17634@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Mar-84 02:42:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.17634 Posted: Fri Mar 23 02:42:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:55:52 EST Lines: 20 From: Jerry E. Pournelle1. CompuPro is now distributing Tony Pietsch's HMX BIOS for CP/M 2.2 systems, and his TMX BIOS for CP/M 8/16; both are ENORMOUS improvements over the stuff that Compupro used to put out. (It was only recently that they discovered there was any such things as software...) 2. There is a wonderful machine called a Disk Maker that has an S-100 board, and will drive 5 1/4" drives; it can manage to convert almost anything to something that almost anything else can read. At $1500 it's the cat's meow for anyone who's got the problem of transferring stuff from one format to another. 3. Tony Pietsch has designed a new S-100 board that does all the IBM PC Graphics; it makes the CompuPro systems about 85-90% compatible with the IBM PC (and one whack of a lot faster). It should be for sale Real Soon Now (watch upcoming comlumns for more info). A brass board exists and works, so it's only a question of time.