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From: jep@oink.UUCP (James E. Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Need Information
Message-ID: <249@oink.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 17:42:35 GMT
References: <805@nuchat.UUCP> <569@auvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jep@oink.UUCP (James E. Prior)
Organization: Random Prime Research Institute  Columbus, Ohio
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In article <569@auvax.UUCP> tech@auvax.UUCP (Richard Loken) writes:
>What CP/M clubs still exist?  Magazines that remember CP/M?  How about user
>groups?

They are very scattered.  Try Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey.
Sorry, I don't have their address or BBS phone number handy.

>I can only read pre 1986 issues of DDJ for so long.

(Sigh) I understand.  There is a magazine that still tries to cover S-100 
stuff.  The've recently had to change to include VME and Multibus, but
they are still S-100 hackers.

S-100 Journal
P.O.Box 1914
Orem, Utah  84057

Another good magazine until bought by M&T publishing was Micro-Systems
Journal.  It was the re-incarnation of Microsystems that Zipf-Davis 
killed.  Sol Libes did a hell of a good job in starting both, and the
companies that bought them, screwed them up.

>While I'm going on like this can you still buy new S-100 cards anywhere or
>unconfigured versions of CP/M from DRI or anybody else?  It idly occured
>to me that I have a 64K 8085 S-100 machine buried somewhere in the basement
>that I could put a floppy controller into and run CP/M on.

You can still buy new S-100 stuff from a bunch of folks.  Be forewarned:
They don't get any significant business from hackers, so their attitudes,
support, and prices reflect that.  They sell primarily to OEMs for
controller applications.

The following S-100 folks advertised in March issue of Micro/Systems Journal:
Macrotech (80386 CPU), Digital Research Computers (miscellaneous old stuff), and
M&T Publishing (Book: Interfacing to S-100/IEEE 696 Microcomputers).

I can't find my recent S-100 Journal issue.

>Oh one more thing Philip, I don't think I'll turf my 8" drives - new drives
>and floppies cost money which I would rather spend elsewhere and reliability
>is unimportant at my house.  Besides, I'm a luddite, I don't like 5-1/4
>drives.

Amen, keep the 8" faith.

>Richard Loken VE6BSV ihnp4!alberta!auvax
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Jim Prior    {ihnp4|osu-cis}!n8emr!oink!jep    jep@oink.UUCP

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