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Does anyone remember or have experience with this early computer designed to run Unix? AKA "Public Domain 32000" by Dave Rand and George Scolaro
It is called the PD32 and uses an NS32016 chipset. It was described in MICRO CORNUCOPIA, #32, Oct-Nov 1986, magazine
https://archive.org/download/bitsavers_microCornua32Oct86_11179272/Micro_Cornucopia_32_Oct86.pdf
The full article is available on the internet with schematics and description of the software. It runs as a coprocessor on either CP/M or IBM PC/XT clones. For the former, the circuit can be placed in an 8 bit PC/XT ISA slot.
Has anyone seen this board? Built it or used it?
I believe it is related, possibly an open source predecessor, to the Definicon DSI-32 coprocessor board for the PC/XT (8 bit ISA slot). There were are two articles in Byte Magazine in August-September 1985.
It is called the PD32 and uses an NS32016 chipset. It was described in MICRO CORNUCOPIA, #32, Oct-Nov 1986, magazine
https://archive.org/download/bitsavers_microCornua32Oct86_11179272/Micro_Cornucopia_32_Oct86.pdf
The full article is available on the internet with schematics and description of the software. It runs as a coprocessor on either CP/M or IBM PC/XT clones. For the former, the circuit can be placed in an 8 bit PC/XT ISA slot.
Has anyone seen this board? Built it or used it?
I believe it is related, possibly an open source predecessor, to the Definicon DSI-32 coprocessor board for the PC/XT (8 bit ISA slot). There were are two articles in Byte Magazine in August-September 1985.
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