Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Sep 9 13:46:59 CDT 2007
On Sep 7, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Bernd Kopriva wrote:
>>>> Steve Ciarcia did a Z8000 card as a project in BYTE, called Trump
>>>> Card.
>>>
>>> Ahhh,
>>> i'm looking for this one for quite some years now ...
>>> ... even Steve dropped his own inventory some years too early :(
>
>> Looking for the card?? Why not just build one? It was a
>> construction article, after all.
>
> ... my fingers are all thumbs when it comes to hardware
> development. I'm more
> interested in "low level" programming
This would hardly be "development"; nearly everything in the Trump
Card design is readily available and easy to find, with the possible
exception of the Z8581 clock generator. All you need is a bunch of
parts, a blank ISA prototyping board, a wire-wrap gun, and some time!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
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