Re: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[allison via cctalk]

On 07/05/2017 04:14 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 7/5/2017 12:32 PM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote:
>> PLEASE, under what directory you put the pdf of the manual  ??
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/micromint/
Thats only for the SB180FX... there are two versions the SB180 and the
later FX.
Never mind also the BCC180.  All z180 powered but not the same.

The first SB180 was limited to 256K of ram, the FX used the Z180 in the
higher lead
count J-lead package and could address 1MB.  The BCC180 was for control
aps and
carried 156Kof Dram and up to 128K of 32K eprom or ram but had no disk
IO but tons
of 8255 (times 2) IO.

I have the BCC180 and the SB180 (first version).

Allison

Re: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

argh.. forgot there was already a micromint dir, so I moved it there

On 7/5/17 5:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> it will be under microMint early tomorrow
> 
> On 7/5/17 12:32 PM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> PLEASE, under what directory you put the pdf of the manual  ??
>>
> 

Re: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

it will be under microMint early tomorrow

On 7/5/17 12:32 PM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote:

> PLEASE, under what directory you put the pdf of the manual  ??
> 

Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[GerardCJAT via cctalk]

Sorry for this late UPDATE !

Replies were numerous, S180 has been claimed. Thanks guys.

 
 Original Message - 
From: GerardCJAT 
To: cct...@classiccmp.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2017 6:33 PM
Subject: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180


Remember it ? 

I have an almost brand new one, powered only half dozen times. ( was running 
CPM ...  Good old days   ;-)   )

It is free to a good home, but I expect you to pay packaging and shipping from 
FRANCE

I do not know if you can contact me off line.  :-(   Please, try and let me 
know  !!

Re: Ciarcia Micromint (was: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Ken Seefried via cctalk]

From: John Wilson 
>  And what was that Z8000-based BASIC coprocessor (or at least,
> I think that was the only software for it) on a long ISA card?  He did
> some crazy stuff!

Indeed.  Z8001/Trump Card was in the May & June 1984 issues of Byte.
There was a BASIC and a C compiler.  I heard that it was a minor
commercial success as some big company used them as a DB accelerator
of some sort using custom programming.  Would be interesting to track
down that story.

I vaguely recall Ciarcia did a 68000 or 32000 ISA card, but my
google-fu fails me; probably misremembering.

The video board for the SB180 was very cool, featuring an HD63484
video controller.  Pretty advanced stuff back in those days.

KJ

Re: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 7/2/17 11:26 AM, Straight Up Productions via cctalk wrote:
> How would you take payment for shipping? I am interested, though I am in
> the USA.


Has the firmware and OS been archived somewhere?

I just scanned and pdf-ed the manual, waiting now for some disk space to free 
up on the bitsavers server.

Re: Ciarcia Micromint (was: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Raymond Wiker via cctalk]

> On 3 Jul 2017, at 01:49 , John Wilson via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, John Wilson wrote:
>>> That sounds like the MPX16?  I thought the SB180 was a Z180 thing.
>> 
>> You're right.
>> 
>> Sorry
>> thinking about the wrong one.
> 
> Well they were both super cool.  And what was that Z8000-based BASIC
> coprocessor (or at least, I think that was the only software for it)
> on a long ISA card?  He did some crazy stuff!

I think that was called the "Trump Card" (which was generally a much more 
positive thing in the past).

Re: Ciarcia Micromint (was: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[John Wilson via cctalk]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 03:54:44PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, John Wilson wrote:
>>That sounds like the MPX16?  I thought the SB180 was a Z180 thing.
>
>You're right.
>
>Sorry
>thinking about the wrong one.

Well they were both super cool.  And what was that Z8000-based BASIC
coprocessor (or at least, I think that was the only software for it)
on a long ISA card?  He did some crazy stuff!

John Wilson
D Bit

Re: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Straight Up Productions via cctalk]

How would you take payment for shipping? I am interested, though I am in
the USA.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 12:33 PM, GerardCJAT via cctech <
cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Remember it ?
>
> I have an almost brand new one, powered only half dozen times. ( was
> running CPM ...  Good old days   ;-)   )
>
> It is free to a good home, but I expect you to pay packaging and shipping
> from FRANCE
>
> I do not know if you can contact me off line.  :-(   Please, try and let
> me know  !!
>

Ciarcia Micromint (was: Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[Fred Cisin via cctalk]

It was Ciarcia, not Garcia

It was designed for reasonable MS-DOS compatability, with a terminal.
Then Ciarcia released a keyboard interface ISA card to be closer to PC.
9 slots with the 5 slot spacing of the 5150 case (not the 8 slot spacing 
of 5160), with the additional ones in between - no good for thick/double 
cards.



On Sun, 2 Jul 2017, GerardCJAT via cctech wrote:


Remember it ?

I have an almost brand new one, powered only half dozen times. ( was running 
CPM ...  Good old days   ;-)   )

It is free to a good home, but I expect you to pay packaging and shipping from 
FRANCE

I do not know if you can contact me off line.  :-(   Please, try and let me 
know  !!

Steve Garcia / Micromint SB180

[GerardCJAT via cctalk]

Remember it ? 

I have an almost brand new one, powered only half dozen times. ( was running 
CPM ...  Good old days   ;-)   )

It is free to a good home, but I expect you to pay packaging and shipping from 
FRANCE

I do not know if you can contact me off line.  :-(   Please, try and let me 
know  !!