10 Aug
2007
10 Aug
'07
6:31 a.m.
Ah, a memory from the past.
Back in the 80's I developped the embossing part of a national debet card
system, "dankort". The data came on 9 track tapes, accompanied by a stack of
blank cards and a stack of photos. The phots had barcodes attached to them,
containing an ID found on the tape. I could then emboss the same barcode
contents on the debet card, so we could keep a track on all data and
produced output. The card is still in national use, but I dont think the
243's used are still alive
Nico
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Corti" <cc at corti-net.de>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject: SORD
I have a SORD M243 Mark V system that came with PIPS,
BASIC and SGL. This
Z80 system from 1982 seems to be interesting as it has a built-in color
monitor and graphics capabilities. But whenever I load SGL (Sord Graphics
Language) into memory I can't load anything other afterwards (like BASIC),
I get "memory exhausted".
The system has "only" 192 kB RAM and is expandable to up to over 700 kB. I
wouldn't mind building a memory expansion but I don't have the description
of the hardware, especially of the pseudo-S100 bus of this machine. Does
anyone have a hardware manual or the description of the I/O bus?
I'm also looking for other software like Fortran, MDOS distribution disks
or even CP/M (not sure if there was a CP/M for the M243).
Christian