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From: loverso@sunybcs.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso)
Newsgroups: net.micro.trs-80
Subject: Request a dying species...
Message-ID: <1898@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 04:10:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 04:10:47 1985
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Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: Model I

I just dug thru my closet and unburied my Model I, which had been sitting
there for 3 years.  At this point, I would like (initially) some pointers
and info...

To start off, does anybody still manufacture double density disk boards.
Percom had the DoublerII and Logical Systems had the 5/8 Switch, I think.
Both used to have them, but I dont know if they still do.  Which one was
better, anyway, I dont remember!  What about a cpu speedup kit?  1.78mhz
is the pits.  My rams are 120ns jobs (I >think<) so it can handle a z80a.

One other question - has anybody hacked together a 80x24 crt controller
system?  If not, I will.  I am about to (try to) design a window based
intelligent terminal emulation package, and will be doing initial design on
the model I; later on to be ported into (possibly) 8031 and shoved into a
Wyse 75 (or something else, maybe).  It would be nice to have a full screen,
and I'm working out a port based scheme to switch btwn normal video and a
new video controller and memory at 3000-3100.

Still going- I have a cross assembler for z80 under unix, but what I'd like
would be a z80 C compiler - either a cross compiler running under unix or
one in z80.  Anyone have pointers to that?

Are there any model I owners left out there?  Please drop me a line!
[btw, have you seen 80-Micro?  last time I bought a copy, it was >500 pages!]

Thanks!  John