jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) (08/14/90)
jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes: >Azog-Thoth@cup.portal.com (William Thomas Daugustine) wrote: [..] >Sord made CP/M machines (one, I think, used twin Z80 cpus) and a bigger >machine with a 68000 and a Z80 in it - it ran CP/M-68K, the Z80 was an >i/o processor. This is from seeing an ad for them several years ago. [..] Just to add to the folkoristic contents of this thread, I know about the CP/M machine (I have one at home in boxes). The CP/M machine used a Z80 to be rearwards compabible with the older SORD, the Z80 equipped M5 (?). The CP/M machines name is SORD M68, incidentally. If anyone know of any software for the M68, please let me know. E.g. the libraries to drive the various hardware in the Z80 directly from CP/M-68k (such as: GPIB bus, serial port, etc). Thanks in advance Jens Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O "It never runs around here; it just comes crashing down" apologies to Dire Straits
geoff@actrix.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan) (08/15/90)
In article <1990Aug14.090624.7886@diku.dk> jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) writes: >The CP/M machine used a Z80 to be rearwards compabible with the older SORD, >the Z80 equipped M5 (?). The CP/M machines name is SORD M68, incidentally. > >If anyone know of any software for the M68, please let me know. E.g. >the libraries to drive the various hardware in the Z80 directly from >CP/M-68k (such as: GPIB bus, serial port, etc). > I have two SORDs gathering dust due to lack of software. An M23 (Z80) and an M68 (68000 and Z80). They used CP/M and CP/M68K and also a proprietary operating system. They also had some sort of 4GL thing called PIPS. The only thing I have for the M68 is BASIC (which runs in Z80 mode) and CP/M68K. I'd be _very_ interested to hear of a 68K development system or even something to access the serial ports (there seems to be no way to do this from BASIC) These machines also used a weird-alice 1.2Mb disk format. Anyone have any info on it? If I can't use the machines I'd like to use the floppies in an AT but they don't seem to be the same as AT 1.2Mb drives 8-( -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoff McCaughan Email: geoff@actrix.co.nz Phone: +64 3 539545 or 852101 Amiga/Hardware/Unix/Quantum Mechanics Hacker Phax : +64 3 539567 "Anarchy: Think of it as evolution in action." ^ NEW ZEALAND!