I never used an MDS or ISIS, but I did have a lot of documentation from
one back in the '79-82 or so time period.  I recall having the assembly
source for the MDS BIOS, from which I learned a lot of what I know about
8080 assembler and how BIOS, interrupts, etc. work.  I seem to recall the
MDS would run CP/M as well as ISIS, but I don't think I ever knew anything
about ISIS to begin with.

Here's a link I found that might help out:

http://www.hitex.demon.co.uk/x86/oldx86.html

They support old projects, if this is important enough to someone to pay
for...

Dale
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Mark Skeels wrote:

> Hi, List.
>
> I got no response to this on [OT]: so let's try on [EE]:
>
> I'm trying to get source code for old projects out of an old Intel MDS
> system. The company that owns it lost all the manuals. I spent an hour last
> night trying to remember the syntax for the copy command under ISIS.
>
> Does anybody remember the device name for the serial port, or the (paper
> tape) punch device?
>
> IIRC, one can copy files directly to the device using the copy command.
>
> Also, anyone know where I can find, say, an ISIS manual on the net?
>
> Also, do you know where I can pick up a copy of a utility called HTRANS?
> It's used to send stuff out of the serial ports. How about IDOS80?
>
> If worst comes to worst, they've got PLM-80 for the beast, but with no OS
> manual, it would be next to impossible to write anything to solve the
> problem.
>
> TIA,
> Mark Skeels
> Engineer
> Competition Electronics
> meskeels@earthlink.net
>
> Soli Deo Gloria!
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