Re: [N8VEM-S100:673] CP/M-68 on the ECB mini-M68k CPU board

8" media generally holds up pretty well so I'm hopeful that most or all of this data can be saved (I tend toward foolish optimism - that's why I collect vintage gear :>) ). Things are buried under a few layers of honey-do projects but I'll try to get something going in the next week or two and pass it along.

Jack

From: John Coffman <jo...@gmail.com>
To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tue, January 17, 2012 3:50:49 PM
Subject: Re: [N8VEM-S100:673] CP/M-68 on the ECB mini-M68k CPU board

I'm impressed if you have 8" disk drives that still work. Somehow, somehow, I hope you can recover the data on those source disks. BTW: I am cross-compiling with GCC. I hate the GAS syntax for assembly code, but the GCC-generated code is second to none.

I have not posted source code or listings yet, as there are still a few pieces needed to make a palatable distro. I am keeping Mike Sharkey up to date with the source backups; and I would be glad to send the zip files to you for the asking.

--John

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Jack Rubin <jack....@ameritech.net> wrote:
John (and other 68K fans),

I've located a bunch of old CP/M-68K stuff recently, including CP/M-68K v 1.3,
FORTH and 68K tiny BASIC. Is there a central listing of the software you already
have? Almost everything is on 8" disk which I should be able to read but I don't
have a system set up currently.

Hopefully, moving to the S100 68K board should be pretty easy from here.

Great work!

Jack

----- Original Message ----
> From: John Coffman <john...@gmail.com>
> To: N8VEM <n8...@googlegroups.com>; n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Tue, January 17, 2012 10:38:50 AM
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:670] CP/M-68 on the ECB mini-M68k CPU board
>
> Motorola 68000 enthusiasts:
>
> CP/M-68 is working well on the ECB mini-M68k CPU board, supported by the
>MF/PIC board for serial I/O and IDE interface (8255). The attached screen
>shows:
>
> F: the ROMdisk, with just a couple of utilities
> B: the RAMdisk, 1Mb. I'm glad I put 2Mb of SRAM on the CPU board. Half
>is for CP/M, and the other half is its RAMdisk.
> C: an 8Mb CP/M partition on a CF card. The photo shows a different,
>smaller CF card.
>
> This CP/M supports up to 16 drives -- as soon as I hook the disk
>initialization to the CF card partition table.
>
> Although this is CP/M 1.2, the binary utilities are from an extensive
>collection from Douglas. The release notes indicate that 1.3 was mostly bug
>fixes to utility programs.
>
> The boot process still needs streamlining, and a utility for setting up the
>partitions on IDE disks (i.e., CF cards) needs to be written.
>
> What is running now really has the feel of CP/M.
>
> --John
>
>
>