Hi Ruud, On 7/22/13 10:35 PM, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) wrote: > When Patryk and I visited Anders some years ago, we got several boxes that > looked like the second one. I don't know if Patryk wanted some as well > otherwise they ended up all with me. I still have them and I'll check > things this evening. Anders was nice enough to send one of his boxes to me. The one that he sent me is a HardBox. The HardBox and the SoftBox are the same hardware with different EPROMs and minor configuration differences. The HardBox provides a CBM DOS interface to a Corvus hard drive. The SoftBox is a CP/M computer. It can optionally use a Corvus under CP/M but the Corvus can't be used as a CBM DOS device. I compared the HardBox and SoftBox boards and worked out the differences. I was able to successfully convert a HardBox into a SoftBox and run CP/M on it. Steve Gray has done it now also. > I never was able to do anything with them because I couldn't find any info > on the internet. I have both types working now and can help. Anders scanned the HardBox manual and made a disk image with the utilities. Those are on my site now. I was able to format a Corvus drive on the HardBox using the disk. Almost all of my work has been on the SoftBox. I got the disk and manual from former employees of Small Systems Engineering. I had the disk for many months before the manual was found. During that time, I disassembled the Z80 BIOS and most of the utilities to find out how they work. I now have a good understanding of the SoftBox internals. I have posted dumps of the EPROMs that I have. Please check if you have a different version, especially if it is a SoftBox. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Naberezny (mike@naberezny.com) http://6502.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-07-23 07:00:16
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