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.
