On 02/21/2013 10:00 AM, gids.rs@sasktel.net wrote:
Seems like there might be a market for another run of the Freed boards - Alex? I have one of my Freed clones running at 20Mhz :-).If you gave Alex the specs, Steve, to make and sell as a 20 Mhz CPM clone. You can count me in for one.
I didn't give Alex any information. He's forgotten more about computer engineering than I'll ever know! My only contribution was to work out why the original PCPI ramdisk driver didn't work on the built-in memory. Turns out the original author never allowed for the possibility of having > 256k available for this application. Perhaps the only thing he overlooked. The software design is an all-time classic. Beautifully done and cutting-edge for the times.
As to whether we can Alex into offering another run of the Z80 boards - who knows? Doesn't hurt to ask (he reads this group periodically).
Steve