Phillip Vogel wrote:

>Way, way, way back when, I was working on a rather complicated control
>system. The company I was working for had been very low tech up to that
>time, and I was forced to sneak new technology into the products behind
>everyone's back.
>
>I was thinking Z80, they were thinking relays. At some point, I decided
>to stay up late and build a pretty cool state machine using eproms,
>counters, timers and some other glue logic. I had to build an eprom
>programmer with switches and lights (did I mention that this was a LONG
>night?). Within a few days, this was working better than anything they
>had done up to that point. I was still thinking Z80. Now they were
>hooked on the state machine, and I had to screw around with that thing
>for months tweaking, tuning and cursing.
>
>One day when the boss was away, I brought in the TRS80 Model I. It took
>a couple of hours to hook up the address & data busses in place of the
>eproms, and just a few hours to write  some assembly code to make
>something that worked WAY better than the best we had had up to that
>point. The final product had a Z80, and the boss never looked back.
>
>So, the Model I lives in my attic.
>
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>
>Since I've gotten this far off topic, I might as well go a little
>further. I have boxes FULL of Z80 development stuff. Emulators,
>debuggers, data books, parts, software... Everything you need to do some
>major Z80 projects (and I've done quite a few). This stuff is up in the
>attic with the TRS80, and I'd love to find it a new home. Anyone
>interested? I'd trade for pretty much anything useful. My wife wants me
>to put it on ebay, but I thought I'd ask here first.
>
>Phillip
>
You might try comp.os.tandy. The standard Z-80 stuff might not go for much
on ebay. But I've seen some real wierd things happen when people start
bidding on old* computers.
(* Its hard to think of something as "old" that was made after I
got out of High School)

Jim

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