jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (09/09/86)
It occurred to me that some people on the net may be interested
in this bit of news. Motel Computers Ltd. is liquidating and folding
up. They were the makers of the Motel Cypher single-board computer.
I just bought a wave-soldered board from them (end of stock) and
am taking my chances on building it *WITHOUT WARRANTEE*. I didn't
get it all that cheap either (roughly $600.00 Canadian including
all taxes for the wave soldered board and 4 proprietary chips and
software).
I would not encourage others to follow in my footsteps, but on
the otherhand, if you have a computer company and would like to
get into 68K technology, I think you might be able to BUY the DESIGN
from the owners. There
s some reason to be interested in
this design. It has onboard a Z-80 alternative processor, NEC-7220
graphics generator with 128K dedicated RAM and up to 1 Meg. main
RAM. It has 64K Static RAM and 64K DMA (which I think is direct to
the static RAM). It has D to A and A to D and a battery backed
real-time clock option. Apparently all the circuitry is digitized
to make it easy to modify (relatively speaking of course).
If this sounds interesting to you, you can look up their ads
in some old issues of Byte Magazine. The phone is disconnected, but
you can still reach them by mail.
Cheers! -- Jim O.
(No, I'm NOT associated with the company in any way except as a
customer.)
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James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto
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