Thanks! Yep, it’s very well-built and I’m looking forward to digging into it once I (finally) put together my MVT100 kit that you sent me months ago! (I’m perhaps too cautious…)
By chance, is Mo still associated with King Computer Services (that’s one of the companies mentioned in the credits screen)? I sent an email to them and attached the PDF too. https://www.kingcomputerservices.com/contact.htm It’d be great to learn more about the history of this project, how long it was on the market, if the manuals are available somewhere, etc. (looks like I’ve found my next windmill). Cheers and again, thanks, SB -- Greetings from Steve Baker “Gravity brings me down…” > On Jan 10, 2021, at 5:10 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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&; > > <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…” > > >
