Info on z80 system requested
Don Maslin
: Today I received a Z80 system without any software and without any
: documentation. I know little about this system, it does not even has a name on
: it! Here is what I know:
: - on the mother board there one can find the following: Z80A CPU, Z80A DART,
: Z80A CTC, Z80A DMA, Z80A PIO and 128 KByte of memory (16 * D4164C). The board
: is designed by WaveMate Inc, Hawtorne, CA in 1982
This sounds like the old Wavemate Bullet. If so, the hard disk
controller is connected through a 50 pin SASI/SCSI/bus-extender header
(J1) on the right hand side of the board. I have a couple of those boards
that were rejects and are not fully populated. That little sucker was
priced at $749 including CP/M 3 according to an old price list that I have.
Wavemate is no more, though.
: - on the MFM hard disk controller there is also a Z80 CPU (mostek). The
: controller board is placed beneath the mother board
Wavemate sold a HDC, also.
: Connecting an asynchronous terminal device to either of the DB25 connectors
: does not result in any text on the screen, only some strange characters
: immediatly after power-on. After power-on the floppy disk is selected and
: the harddisk initialises (you can hear some head movements). There is no
: visible reaction is the back-side button is pressed.
: Does anyone out there knows what brand of Z80 system this is? Can somebody give
: me some pointers to documentation about this system and/or software, especially
: the bootfloppy and the OS?
I can't help you with a system disk for it, unfortunately. Wish I had
one for the archive!
: From the amount of memory one can expect it to be a CP/M 3 system. If so, I
: would like to revive this system, just for fun.
Yes, it was CP/M 3,see above.
do...@crash.cts.com
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Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
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