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
> 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 wr
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.
On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 02:46:53PM -0700, Fred Cisin via cctech wrote:
>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
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
cop
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 goo
