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I used a bamboo rake. I hated that stuff. When I bought my first house, it had green shag; my current house had orange shag carpet...

Need to toss 50 or 100 relays into your system...

Yup, the Drivetec, later Kodak (after Drivetec's bankruptcy). The positioner was pretty clever--two steppers connected by a lever arm...

Without knowing what's in the GALs, it's going to be pretty hard. There's a Linux driver for the 5380 on Github, if you want to try...

Get your 'scope out and write some code for DEBUG. The board is very simple and the code for the BIOS is openly available. If you...

Have you tried drivers for some of the NCR5380 cards, such as the Trantor/Adaptec T128?

Given the weird characteristics of the Hitachi unit ( (2,7) RLL encoding), I think that Herb has it right--driven by the hard disk...

Looks like a very nice board! If I needed one, I'd get this one.

There was one short-lived version offered by Hitachi; I'm not aware of it making any market headway. Herb Johnson tells the story...

That probably explains why my XT-CF is still working with the 2764 EPROM. I do have a batch of 28C64s, but have used them on other...

I'm still using the original in a clone. This is from the time when you built it yourself from the PCB. There is the infamous "chuck...

I believe the F-85 was launched in either late 1978 or early 1979. It's hard for me to remember the official launch date because we had...

I recall my Sony monitor--every time the scan rates changed, you'd hear relays clicking. One burnout monitor casualty was the MDA/MGA...

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It probably will, but not for BIOS-oriented text display, of course.