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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Josef_M=C3=B6llers?= <josef@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Just wondering...
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 23:12:22 +0200
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On 02.06.25 17:55, pH wrote:
> On 2025-06-02, Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 02.06.25 15:31, John wrote:
>>> If people have migrated to another site...
>>> ... or maybe have (gulp) died off...
>>
>> I, for one, am still lurking.
>> But I find little time to tinker with my SB180FX.
>>
>> Josef
> 
> Oh! Is that the Board from Steve Ciarcia of Byte Magazine?

Yes. I did have a GT180 as well, but that didn't survive a faulty power 
connection (as did the SB180FX, but I managed to get replacements for 
all the chips on that board).

>  Was it a Hitachi
> chip?

Yes, an HD64180.

>  I don't recall....and was it CP/M 3?

It was a CP/M clone called Zsystem.

At the time I worked for a computer manufacturer who occasionally sold 
surplus stuff to employees, so I had quickly added a 10MB (in words: TEN 
MEGABYTES ... ALL FOR ME!!!!) hard disk through an Adaptec host adapter, 
later a Quantum 40MB SCSI disk, but now it has a solid state SCSI flash 
disk. Also, as I feared that the floppies wouldn't last longer, I 
replaced the FDDs with a USB-Floppy-Adapter, allowing me to have almost 
all floppies online.

>  Memory fades.....

What was it we were talking about? ;-)

Josef