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Fantastic, sounds like a great addition to the Sorcerer for a real time solution.  Are you prepared to send scans of your design and coding of the unit, or I can scan them for you ?

Hi Chickenman, unfortunately I don't have a full listing... only fragments of hand written code.

The actual external hardware was a classic Veroboard solution and similarly I appear to only have some early partial circuit diagrams.

This was some 40 years ago so I'm a bit hazy about some of the aspects. I presume the code was typed in and then dumped onto cassette and loaded by same as required.

But as I said, the ease with which you could interface with the Sorcerer via the S100 bus was very impressive. Great documentation.

There was a microbee S100 expansion chassis but it wasn't popular because was far easier and cheaper to directly attach to the microbee's Z80 bus. One can easily add a Z80 CTC internally in a microbee at address PORT04-07. The CTC was omitted from the microbee to allow it to meet a low price point.