On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 7:20 PM Chris Fezzler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any NEC PC-8500/Starlet owners or folks familiar?
> To keep it short, in 64K Mode, all the 64K in the computer is assigned to
> the OS and all the RAM in the cartridge is for storage.  Is that correct?
>
>
I've never got it into all-RAM mode. Admittedly though I haven't tried that
hard. I thought the point of that was to run CP/M, but the only way I know
you can do that is with the floppy disk attached, that no one has.
Theoretically you could probably do it with just the ROM/RAM cartridge. If
someone has docs or files that would help.

I do believe I have the boot disk though.


> The NEC PC-8508A ROM/RAM Cartridge...is there a "ROM" socket in there?
>
>
I don't know. I will open it up.

Here are pictures:

https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=NEC_8508A_RAM/ROM_Cartridge

-- John.

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