[net.ham-radio] Xerox 820 Questions

karn@allegra.UUCP (Phil Karn) (04/10/84)

From Larry Kayser
Re Xerox 820 boards
I have been sort of tracking the 820 news and since one of these 
boards is due here soon I would like to determine some details so
that we might make reasonably prompt use of the 820.

Specific Questions
-Does anyone have a complete assembler listing for the 820 BIOS?
(I understand the BIOS is in two parts, disk for 6 sectors and 
EPROM as well)
-Has anyone brought up BYE running beneath the CCP, that is lower
in the memory space?
-Has anyone brought up ZCPR2 on the 820?
-Has anyone brought up SIGNON on the 820?
-Has anyone brought up a Western Digital 1001 hard disk 
controller on an 820?
-Has anyone done a simple modification for double density?
-Has anyone added a large RAM capability to emulate a disk drive?


My specific interest is to use the 820 in a gateway to replace an
old 8080 system.  Any help will be appreciated.
Regards, Larry Kayser