very interesting! Never seen that before. Well Mo Budlong wrote some very good software, I'm sure it is really a good device. thanks for putting that together! Steve
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:06 PM Steve Baker <stevebake...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quick update on my (previously mysterious) Gold 7.10 chip. I dusted off > the corresponding hardware (an interesting case with two 256Kb IC cards > that plugs into the system bus) and was able to get it working. It offers > two banks of 256Kb storage plus some utilities to format and test IC cards, > copy cards, transfer files to/from RAM, and so on. > > Today I made a quick PDF that has (a) photos of the software running on a > Tandy 102, the chip itself, and the IC case and cards; and (b) a two-part > article written by Mike Nugget in the Oct/Nov 1988 issues of Portable 100. > Thought it might be interesting to read a more robust hands-on review, as > I’m just starting to figure out what this does. > > The PDF is stored here in my Club100 folder: > > > http://www.club100.org/memfiles/index.php?direction=0&order=&directory=Steve%20Baker&; > > … along with the HEX and BX files of the chip itself. Now I’m totally > curious about what I have… given the chip has a hand-written label, is this > a pre-production version? Or were all of them shipped like this, thereby > asserting a relatively low volume (the 512k set had a list price of $550 > back in ’88)? Well, it’ll be fun to see what I can do with it. > > Cheers and here’s to a good week, > SB > > > — > Greetings from Steve Baker > “Gravity brings me down…” > > > >
