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From: geoff@actrix.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan)
Newsgroups: misc.wanted,misc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Info wanted: SORD M68 (was SORD Computer)
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.003652.7299@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 15 Aug 90 00:36:52 GMT
References: <32692@cup.portal.com> <6044@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1990Aug14.090624.7886@diku.dk>
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Summary:Me too!

In article <1990Aug14.090624.7886@diku.dk> jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) writes:
>The CP/M  machine used a Z80 to be rearwards compabible with the older SORD, 
>the Z80 equipped M5 (?). The CP/M machines name is SORD M68, incidentally.
>
>If anyone know of any software for the M68, please let me know. E.g.
>the libraries to drive the various hardware in the Z80 directly from
>CP/M-68k (such as: GPIB bus, serial port, etc).
>

I have two SORDs gathering dust due to lack of software. An M23
(Z80) and an M68 (68000 and Z80). They used CP/M and CP/M68K and
also a proprietary operating system. They also had some sort of 4GL
thing called PIPS. The only thing I have for the M68 is BASIC (which
runs in Z80 mode) and CP/M68K. I'd be _very_ interested to hear of a
68K development system or even something to access the serial ports
(there seems to be no way to do this from BASIC)

These machines also used a weird-alice 1.2Mb disk format. Anyone
have any info on it? If I can't use the machines I'd like to use the
floppies in an AT but they don't seem to be the same as AT 1.2Mb
drives 8-(


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