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Hello from Wellington New Zealand - gentle1 - 26-10-2020
Hi,
My introduction into computing was with an S100 CPM system that had the DG680 CPU, ETI640 VDU and RASEFDC floppy controller back in the early 80's.
I have been heavily involved with computers and now microcontrollers ever since.
I have just dusted off one of the S100 systems and brining it back to life. This included creating a new parallel keyboard and serial link using an Arduino.
Unfortunately my three 8" floppy drives are all not working at the moment so haven't been able to get CPM up and running.
It is good to have a forum where people are interested in similar technologies.
Cheers Bruce
RE: Hello from Wellington New Zealand - ChickenMan - 26-10-2020
Hi Bruce and welcome to the forum
Great to hear you still have a DG680 S100 system but sad to hear your 8" drives are not working. I assume you have eliminated the Floppy Controller itself as the cause of them not working ?
While we have quite a bit of documentation in the Repository on your system, but sadly we do not have a working CP/M image for your system and when you do get an 8" drive working we would like to see what can be done to generate a disk image.
RE: Hello from Wellington New Zealand - someone - 26-10-2020
G'Day Bruce!
Welcome aboard.
Someone spent a lot of time in Wellington NZ, and building and developing their S100 system with a similar configuration to yours.
Just holler if you want someone to help you or just have a yabber.
In addition to the above, someone built an FPGA CP/M and ARM CP/M system and can provide some insight into getting a BIOS going for your system.
Cheers