Hi Leon! Thanks! Just for clarification, the FPMini is an
"unannounced project" at the moment -- basically a home brew side
line. The jist of the idea is to make an S-100 Front Panel board
similar to those found on early S-100 machines and retaining the S-100
form factor.
While it has some functional overlap with the S-100 System Monitor
Board, the FPMini is quite different. It is less capable as a system
monitor and is restricted to 8-bit only. However, it can do more
"traditional" front panel tasks like bootstraping the CPU in a ROM-
less system. There may or may not be a niche for such a board. We'll
see how this progresses.
This is really just in the "good idea" and/or private experimentation
stage right now. I'll post more later if and when things further
develop. Sorry to be so ambiguous but the project is still quite ill-
defined.
Thanks for the encouragement though! Have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
On Nov 25, 2:52 am, Elsid<le...@swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
Sorry for the Typo. I meant IMSAI of course.
On Nov 25, 6:48 pm, Elsid<le...@swiftdsl.com.au> wrote:
Andrew,
I noticed you dropped a schematic and pcb for a FPMini (Mini IMSIA
8080 Front Panel) athttp://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder�m=S-100%20...
It looks to be from the guy at this blog:http://uxpro.com/fpmini/blogs/blog1.php
Are you or is he, going to make a production run of this board. If so
I would be very interested in getting a couple.
Leon Byles- Hide quoted text -
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