Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics that should be avoided

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> On Sep 21, 2005, at 4:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> >>    Whatcha got?  I've still got some CP/M machines here too.
> >
> > Z-100.  Dual processor (8085 and 8088), S100 bus, 640x512 color 
> > graphics.
> >
> > The interesting bit is that CP/M itself runs on the 8088, while the
> > application runs on the 8085, and there's some hardware for doing
> > system calls between the two.  That gives pretty much all of the 64k
> > address space to the application.
> 
>    Sweet machine.  I've got a Kaypro II and an Imsai 8080 here, along 
> with a couple of TRS-80s.  The latter are not, of course, native CP/M 
> machines, but they'll run it if properly coaxed with the right boot 
> disk. :)  I'm still very partial to CP/M.

Nuts!  Somewhere packed in a box deep in some closet I should have my
old KIM-1 single board computer along with the home-brew power supply
I made for it.  Real men don't need operating systems --  they just
enter the program using a hex heypad and then throw a switch to run
it! 

Stuart