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From: vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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Subject: BigBoard II
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.013054.18342@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 21 Nov 90 01:30:54 GMT
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Hello CP/M world...
	I recently got a "patched together" CP/M machine consisting of
2 8" single sided floppy drives, the guts of an Amdek composite monitor
an ASCII encoded keyboard and a single board CP/M unit called a "Big Board II"
made around 1982. It's a very nice single board computer with 2 serial
ports, composite video output, SASI and "mini floppy" (5.25"??) interfaces
and some other goodies. It boots fine with the CP/M 2.2 supplied and I can
format 8" disks up to 670K each. My question is:
	does anyone have the firmware to let this thing use 5.25" disks
	drives as well?
	has anyone hooked a hard drive up to one of these things?
 
I'm more than willing to hack with the guts of this thing if needed; they
were kind enough to also supply full schematics for the thing. I've been told
the "Big Board" design was widely copied by Osborne, Kaypro and Xerox for 
their CP/M machines. 
 
						thanks
						vic spicer