Northstar Horizon

[Chuck Guzis]

On 25 Nov 2006 at 3:27, jim stephens wrote:

> And my memory of 256 bytes may be off, I vaguly recall maybe on 32 bytes 
> are visible and used by the processor at boot.  People had to use pretty small proms 
> in the early days of the hobby.

I recall that the disk controller had a small bipolar prom and that 
it was indeed 32 bytes.  It was miles better than toggling the boot 
code by hand...  A 256-byte boot prom back then would have been an 
almost obscene luxury... ;)

--Chuck