Looks good @FreddyV - considerably more oomph on the storage board than the system it’s serving I’m sure!
@Malc Ive not costed up the single slot but it will be about the same as the first one. The challenge still comes back to the bracket.
The ROM I have moved to a PLCC btw.
@Malc - I've done two - an updated version of my single-port small card and a 'full feature' dual-port card. Both are based on the '376.
There is quite a lot of logic on the dual-port "twincharger" card which makes it relatively expensive (maybe USD 100). It's in discrete logic as I'm always...
My parts box has brands like SanDisk. Verbatim, Kingston, PQI Industrial, some Seagate Microdrives too, ranging from 32MB to 8GB and all work fine. I haven't had a non-working card so don't know for sure what it is about them that is the problem. It is though worth noting that CompactFlash is a...
I'd suggest looking at the 5V line - voltage and stability. CompactFlash is a dual-voltage specification, 3V3 and 5V, and the Tandy I think is CMOS? So, there could be some marginal signal levels causing problems.
The adapter supports any ATA-2 compliant hard disk (almost all of which will be long defunct) but also microdrives, if you want something a bit unusal. CompactFlash is best for most people though as it's easy to plug them in to a modern PC for file exchange too (via a USB adapter).
Thanks. At least with the ROM at D800, I think it's OK - the ROM can be seen in the memory address space just fine. Do you have the system configuration disk? I wondered if that might have any settings relating to option ROMs. I did read mention of two ROMs in these machines (one for OS/2) but I...
I'm troubleshooting an issue with an IBM PS/2 model 25 (8086 based) using Revision 0 system ROM (the ROM contains at the start 00F2122 (C) COPYRIGHT IBM CORPORATION 1981,1987 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED) with XTIDE Universal BIOS (XUB).
I can see previous threads where people get this machine working...
I guess this is hand-coded to the peculiarities of a real IBM CGA card as it doesn't want to play on either a Tandy 1400 nor an Amstrad PPC640. I'd be really interested to know more about how the scrolling and reflections are achieved as it kind seems impossible at 4MHz!