Alright, Mark & Alison. This is your fault! I ordered one. I am absolutely not responsible for my own actions!?
I have to wonder if I'll have any clue how to run the silly thing. Though I did find my copy of Zaks' Introduction to Microprocessors the other day. Maybe I won't have to cry like a baby and beg for help. No bets. I think I still have my Wordstar 3 disks...?
Bill in OKC
William R. Meyers, MSgt, USAF(Ret.)
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new
problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
LAZARUS LONG (Robert A. Heinlein)
On Saturday, August 1, 2020, 07:40:42 PM CDT, Mark Moulding <mark@...> wrote:
Alison, I picked up a few weeks ago.? It went together in about an hour, and is very close to what you described.? It uses a Z-180 (Z*) code compatible, plus two serial ports (and some other stuff) on-chip.? It comes with a micro-SD pre-loaded with several versions of CP/M and a few others as well (Z-System, Forth, Basic).? Each "Hard drive" on the SD card is broken into 16 "Slices", each of which is the 8 MB maximum size for CP/M.? The whole thing is only a little bigger than a deck of cards, and costs about $75.? Looking at the listing on Tindie, it appears that it may not be available much longer...
It's really fun to use - I leave it plugged into my main computer (it can be powered from the USB-serial adapter).? Then when I'm working on something else and need a break, I just fire up my H-19 emulator, and away I go!? I've loaded WordStar (my favorite editor of that era), as well as Turbo Pascal (which achieved for me what P-System did for you), so I'm back in 1981.
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Mark Moulding
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Bill in OKC too