If this board would work with the first ver of the propeller 
console I/O board, it may bring my Imsai out of the dust.

Plagued with memory boards and two SA400 drives that
are a bit on the flaky side, I just put it aside.

Todd

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From: "Crusty OMO" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 11:17:21 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:5546] ALTAIR-IMSAI 8080 CPU Board on Ebay


Hi Group, 

Well, I put up one of these boards fully built and tested on ebay. I hope to 
reach some ALTAIR / IMSAI owners that may want to bring their system out of the 
closet. If anyone is interested in following the auction, it's ebay item # 
251712707885 
I hope it will come up on searches... I couldn't figure out how to make it 
"International shipping". 

Hopefully, it will drum up some interest in N8VEM too. 

Cheers, 
Josh 

PS. Tom, 

I do not have John's Propeller Board. Perhaps John has a blank sitting on the 
shelf with my name on it? 
I could probably write support for the board, but, it would be difficult for me 
to debug without a board to test with. 

Cheers, 
Josh 







Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 18:52:22 -0800 
Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:5544] ALTAIR-IMSAI 8080 CPU Board, BOM errors 
From: [email protected] 
To: [email protected]; [email protected] 


Josh... 

Do you supports John's Propeller Driven Console-IO Board 
on the 8080 board CP/M image?? if no, is this something your planing on 
adding?? 

ADDING THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT TWO BOARD SYSTEM... 

Thanks 


On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Crusty OMO < [email protected] > wrote: 




I don't have a lot of cards, but I'm primarily using a DANE-ELEC 1GB card, 
works fine. 
I also tried a Kingston 4GB Micro SD (with the SD adapter) - does not work. 
Another one that simply says "MICRO SD" on it, which is a 2GB Micro SD with an 
adapter, does not work. 

Another that only has "MINI SD" written on it, which is a 2GB Mini SD with 
Adapter does work. 

I recently bought some cheap cards from China, the ELITE PRO 1GB Memory Card, 
they work. 

They all work ok on my PC, I'm guessing there's some init process that I'm not 
doing correctly for these larger cards. It's not worth my time to solve the 
mystery, I just recommend people use 1GB or smaller. 

Cheers, 
Josh 




Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:31:45 -0800 
Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:5540] ALTAIR-IMSAI 8080 CPU Board, BOM errors 
From: [email protected] 
To: [email protected] 





Josh... 


what brand and size of SD cards have you tested with ?? 


thanks 



On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Crusty OMO < [email protected] > wrote: 




Hi Group, 

Well, the moment has come for me to stand up and admit I'm an idiot! 

This has come after a long search and struggle to find out why CP/M 2.2 would 
not save files correctly. 

Apparently in CP/M 2.2, they number the sectors from 0. While, iirc, in CP/M 
1.4 it started at 1. 

I spent hours testing my disk read/write routines and could not find faults. 

I even thought my CP/M image got corrupt, and Rich Cini was very kind to send 
me another image. I was hoping the files where different, but that wasn't the 
problem either. 

The whole fix, just really required me to remove a simple "Decrement Sector" 
instruction because I thought CP/M used 1 as it's starting sector, where I 
needed 0. 

Sigh... ok, problem solved.... 

New firmware file and Disk file images (with CP/M standard files uploaded) on 
the wiki site at: 

http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/file/88759892/FIRMWARE%20and%20CPM%20v-disk%20image%20AIR-V12.zip
 

Cheers! 
Josh Bensadon 





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