This is very cool.
Could you look a little more at the cards?
Do they come apart to see the board inside?
Is the battery permanent or a removable coin cell?
Does the main unit with the sockets come apart to see that board?
I love how thin the unit is.
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bkw
On 1/10/21 5:25 PM, Steve Baker wrote:
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
<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
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Greetings from Steve Baker
“Gravity brings me down…”
On Jan 10, 2021, at 5:10 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospru...@gmail.com
<mailto: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
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Greetings from Steve Baker
“Gravity brings me down…”
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bkw
