mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) (01/08/89)
At last reading, it has been several weeks since anyone has even peeped on this group. For a while there, it was looking like people really were interested, then interest flagged, not smoothly, slowly, no, it just ENDED. I helped stir things up last time, so here we go again. I have heard from Rick Rodman, after having passed him ALL of the text propogated on this group, and he wants to hear from some of you. He has approved my net.activities regarding our group, and wants more input. He was formerly involved with a coprocessor design effort, which I guess was dropped with the advent of the PD32. He has running code for the Bare Metal skeleton, complete with host interface. He says: Ask for these features: lots of room for SIMM RAM or 1M chips (note: why not design for 4M?), SCSI port - just a single chip these days - floppy disk controller - ditto - NTSC video output, Hi-res D/A and A/D with RCA phono connectors, telephone I/O with DTMF generate and detect as well as A/D, D/A, ring generator et al... and modular connectors for serial I/O. Designers NOTE: "Yes, a NuBus board with a '332 or '532 for $200 would be great, count me in (did I misquote somebody here?) Yes, a replacement AT motherboard would also be great, count me in there too. Get these people's names and addresses so I can write them, maybe?" Contact him and get a free subscription to the newsletter: Richard Rodman 8329 Ivy Glen Court Manassas, VA 22110 He runs a BBS (currently his Turbodos multidrive system is down - he has a CP/M backup system) at (703) 330-9049 There is another BBS in Columbia SC, that I assume is NSC-oriented run by Brian Haug at (803) 749-0859. This ia unix-based system, BTW. Let's see some activity out here! Marc Lewis