On Jan 30, 2008 8:25 AM, Carl Denk wrote: > Ah, for the days of CPM, when if you bought a printer or terminal (there > wasn't mice, plug in keyboards and monitors) and had to modify the bios > for such mundane operations as clear screen, line feed, etc. Things were > nice straight forward, there was aa jump table that took you to the > driver, a little assembly work, code it in hex (adecimal), and write it > to a 8" floppy, and if you could afford it, the Mitsubishi double sided, > double density gave you 1024k.( Think it was k and not m) ~) ZCPR! And yeah, you had to know a few things, but it booted in less time than it took the power switch to stop clicking, and it got the job done. My Ampro LittleBoard mounted on top of the 5 1/4 floppy it booted from, would run four floppys, and also had mult-initiator arbitrating SCSI for the hard drive. Two computers on one hard drive was just fine. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist