Re: Diamond Trackstar E

[cdyson@nospam.redshift.com (Clarence Dyson)]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>Karl Asha writes ...
>> 
>> I just picked up a Diamond Trackstar E at an auction, which for all
>> intents and purposes is a IIe and z80 on a pc card. It comes connectors
>> for apple drives, joysticks, monitors, etc, and some ms-dos drivers.

The Trackstar E does not have a Z80 on it. At least mine doesn't. It
has 2 65C02's. One for the CPU and the other for the Video Processor.

>> The last known location that was distributing these things seems
>> to have been Tandy. What I'm trying to find is some sort of technical
>> information for the card so as to allow me to write a linux driver for
>> it.

Tandy still has the video cable for it. Only $50.00. I didn't bother
to ask about the floppy interface. I sat down and figured out the
video. Rather easy. Now I have to finish making it. 

>> Anyone ever run across one of these and know more about the inner workings
>> of them?

Both of mine run just fine. I haven't run into anything I can't run on
it.  Color is about as bad as on a //e though. Other than that, they
are kind of neat.

Take care,

Clarence