Very cool. I don't think I've ever seen or heard of this. Read Mike's
article. Very capable unit. Wonder if they sold very many. May be extremely
rare.
On Sunday, January 10, 2021, 04:06:10 PM EST, Steve Baker
<[email protected]> 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…”
