Re: Just wondering...

On 02.06.25 17:55, pH wrote:

On 2025-06-02, Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 02.06.25 15:31, John wrote:

If people have migrated to another site...
... or maybe have (gulp) died off...

>
I, for one, am still lurking.
But I find little time to tinker with my SB180FX.
>
Josef

 Oh! Is that the Board from Steve Ciarcia of Byte Magazine?

Yes. I did have a GT180 as well, but that didn't survive a faulty power connection (as did the SB180FX, but I managed to get replacements for all the chips on that board).

 Was it a Hitachi
chip?

Yes, an HD64180.

 I don't recall....and was it CP/M 3?

It was a CP/M clone called Zsystem.
At the time I worked for a computer manufacturer who occasionally sold surplus stuff to employees, so I had quickly added a 10MB (in words: TEN MEGABYTES ... ALL FOR ME!!!!) hard disk through an Adaptec host adapter, later a Quantum 40MB SCSI disk, but now it has a solid state SCSI flash disk. Also, as I feared that the floppies wouldn't last longer, I replaced the FDDs with a USB-Floppy-Adapter, allowing me to have almost all floppies online.

 Memory fades.....

What was it we were talking about? ;-)
Josef