I like the colour of that NEC, very smart! I'm still drinking my first brew of the day, so the cogs aren't turning at full speed. But do I understand you've made your own external floppy drive? Albeit a highly powerful one? Love the housing for it btw.
All the best James Sent from my iPad > On 17 Apr 2019, at 12:54 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > A recent email (Jan 2019) from Gary Weber of http://www.web8201.net repeaked > my interest in the NEC8201/M100/M102 which I own. > > I have a few NEC8201 some are stock and some modified extensively. > > https://scout.homeunix.org/wib/public/web/nec8201/index.htm > > This is a very very old web page which was running on a single chip Web in a > Box, since the email from Gary it is now rehosted on one of my Mac Mini > Servers. > > In time I will update the Web page and a new Blog I have started also on the > same Mac Mini Server as I have a very large resource of information, > modifications and original documentation from NEC a half a life time ago > regarding the ROM code design. All this needs to be scanned and uploaded and > made nicer to look at. > > In the last few weeks I have installed a REX3 recently purchased from Steve > Adolph, fantastic piece of design and coding. This has been installed into my > Red repainted NEC8201 and interfaced via RS232 with the Disk Drive as shown > on my site above. > > I have future plans to manufacture a PCB with better quality ADC/DAC Data > Aquisition hardware and machine code to access, I intend to incorporate high > quality Inamps with Filtering and excitation included. My work these days is > with the UNiversity of Adelaide working as an Electronics Instrumentation > Technician, I also maintain Flight Simulators (military in the past). Due to > retire from full time work in Jan2020 and build RC Boats and Electronic > design. > > I have been considering building onto the same pcb as the above mentioned DAQ > chips, an SDCARD storage, the whole lot to mate internally into the expansion > port. > > All this is something I have wanted to do for years but life > Parents/Children/Grandchildren/Work took first place. > > Cheers, > TC
