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- From: regnad@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Paul Prescott)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Televideo TS 803
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 07:18:53 GMT
- Organization: The Land of Forgotten Technology
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- Two days ago I was given a Televideo TS 803 with boot disk and some other
- software. I already really like the machine, due to its graphics capability
- and not one, but two serial ports, and I've broken the barrier of transfers
- to and from it, but I've also come up with some questions that the user's
- manual doesn't answer.
-
- What is an STI? I haven't found an overlay for MEX or ZMP for this machine
- and the reason seems to be this STI. I gather it somehow replaces the Z80
- CTC, but none of my data books lists something called an STI.
-
- The manual mentions expandability to 128K and there is, indeed, a row of
- extra memory sockets, but no mention is made as to the method of using
- this extra memory. (I have the chips to plug in if there is some kind of
- built in bank switching and I find out how to use it.)
-
- There is a 40 pin header on the circuit board labeled "HARD DISK". Is
- this for a piggyback controller, or will the machine directly support
- the appropriate hard disk? (I strongly suspect the former, but I have to
- ask anyway.) :)
-
- Answers to any of these questions, or any suplimentary info on the TS 803
- will be most welcome.
-
-
- Paul Prescott
- regnad@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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