thanks for the replies everybody! and todd I have sent you an email. and more on topic, I found a link to TurboDOS on Wikipedia - it was a multi user cp/m ish s100 system.
thanks all! On Monday, March 30, 2015 at 9:12:16 PM UTC+11, Andy Smout wrote: > I have a fluke 9020a troubleshooter with a 8088 pod and I am looking for a > 8088 sbc or minimal system to do some testing with the fluke, in prep for > doing some arcade pcb repairs etc. > I happened on the n8vem site whilst researching diy sbc's and the 8088 > s10 board looked like a possible candidate. > Could this board be run as a standalone SBC ? without the s100 bus ? > or is there an alternative 8088 s100 pcb that could ? > > also is the xi8088 covered in this group too ? (I have seen some > references to it here) > the xi8088 looks like I could populate the minimum required components to > achieve a simple 8088 sbc and I am wondering if there are any pcbs still > available ? > > apologies for the dumb questions :) > > oh, and along the s100 lines, when I was studying CAd/CAM I was using a > machine that iirc was a multi pcb system with turbo dos os (multi user > system) that was used to do data transfers between the McDonald douglas > unix machines (the drafting machines) and the CAM controllers. does anyone > remember such a system ? after reading up on this site, I now realise it > must have been an s100 system of some sort and it was relatively ancient > (and always crashing too). > > cheers, Andy > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
