west@uts.am.reading.UUCP (Jeremy West) (09/19/85)
Keywords: Xpath: reading uts.am gateway.cs Xref: ukc net.micro:9159 net.micro.cpm:4199 I saw an ad over here for HSC co-processor boards, which add a 8086 or 68000 with 256k-2.5M onto a Z80. Basically the Z80 chi sits on an interface board which does all the neat stuff to allow CP/M68K to use the Z80's disk, keyboard, screen etc, and the Z80 to use the extra RAM as a RAM-DISK. (CP/M68K is the default O/S). Can anyone give me any impressions about these things? Are they value for money? (and what are you paying for them - for us its about US$1000). Are there better ways to get a good CPU without junking perfectly good terminals/disk-drives? (Gimme Amiga!) Also, can anyone give me a name of a supplier, or the address of HSC itself (they are NY based, I think). Please mail replies, I'll summarise if there's interest Many Thanks, Jerry West ---------- west%rdg.cs@ucl-cs.ARPA | Dept of Computer Science, west@cs.reading.UUCP | University of Reading, west@uk.ac.reading.cs (JANET) | READING, RG6 2AX, U.K.