It's been a hell of a day! HP 9845/2x i8008/Sage II/2x Grid/TI

[Tony Duell]

> 
> At 09:45 PM 5/15/05 +0100, you wrote:
> >>    Left there and went to see the guy that I'd meet that morning. He gave
> >> me a ***MINT*** Visual 50 terminal, a MINT Sage II computer with ALL the
> >
> >I haev a Sage II (the later model with half-height 80 cylinder drives),
> 
>    That's like mine but it only has one HH drive. Any idea if these will
> handle four floppy drives? The manual says that it could handle four

The schematics in the back of my Owner's Manual only show DS0 and DS1 
wired up, so I guess it only handles 2 floppies.

> Winchester drives. IF you have the Winchester board. I don't :-(  It

Nor do I. But to tie in to a thread a few weeks back, I have a 
third-party board in mine. It's fixed on pillars stuck to the main board, 
and connects to the 2 50 pin bus headers. It contains a few TTL chips, 
and has a 20 pin header that's designed to link to a Pluto graphics unit 
(or at least that's what I think it's for). Alas I don't have any 
software to drive it.

> doesn't say about the floppy drives other than you could get two drives in it.
> 
> >and the _excellent_ owner's manual with full schematics in the back. What
> >I don't have is an OS for it :-(. If anyone has the set of original disks
> >that came with such a machine, I am looking for copies (IIRC it was the
> >UCSD p-system, with some Sage-specific utilities). 
> 
>   You're in luck. I got all four original disks. I haven't looked closely
> at the manuals yet but they look like they're pretty complete. I got five
> manuals with it: Assembler/SDT, p-System Program Developement (I think this
> compiles to native code and not just p-code), p-System Operating System,
> Getting Started/Word 7 and Technical Manual.  In one of them it mentioned

The only manual I got with mine was the Owner's Manual, but it's very 
useful. It doesn't mention much of the stnadard P-system stuff (but I 
have other p-system manuals...), but it does cover all the non-standard 
units, it contains schematics, info on setting up the terminal driver, 
using the ROM monitor, etc.

> that there was also a Service manual and a Operating System Architecture
> Manual. I have the Assembler for it and I'm pretty sure that it includes
> the Pascal Compiler. They say that they also had Fortran and BASIC and

I think Pascal was standard.

> CPM-68k for it so I'm on the look out for those.

I hate to mention this, but IIRC Don Maslin's archive contained CP/M 68k
for the Sage :-(

All (!) we have to do is find some way of transfering disk images to me 
in a format that I can actually make use of.....

-tony