Oh, that is awesome! I love talking to people who actually used the machines back in their hayday. Do you remember much about it and the cpu you were using etc?
@@anovaprint hmm forgot but mostly z80 and 8088 & 8086 forgot the rest. but primary storage was sugart 820 DSDD. made me king of the nerds on my block not a bad. flea mkt haul. once i repaired it mostly ran CP/m few other things. truly seemed like a window to the world. thru the eyes of a kid..
Man nice video. I've wanted to do this for 3 years but have been too busy with non computer projects to do it. That hard drive card is one of the cards I thought would be cool in a modern altair or s100 build.
Awesome! Thank you! Yeah, it's kind of a ship in a bottle project for me where it's going to take me a loooong time to sort. I'm also really curious what can be done with those CF cards so feel free to come back and share if you find anything interesting on the subject.
I noticed as you panned across you had a small hand held oscilloscope. From my own experience (I was trying to repair a BBC Model B at the time), it actually hampered my attempts to make accurate measurements as it really does have very limited capabilities. Just be aware that you may see things with it that just don't look quite right. It may be fine on an older machine like the CompuPro, but just be aware that it doesn't read frequencies well, even with a proper oscilloscope probe. Good luck with all your projects, I'm interested to see how the CompuPro goes :)
Good eye! I forgot to talk about that thing as I specifically got the cheapest thing I could find to get my foot in the door. Not bad for around $25! Those limitations are good to know about. I imagine I'll have to upgrade if I do anything that needs some real fine tuning.
Here is the problem that I ran into. I have several S100 machines and a KIM-1 as well as a lot of other late 70's and early 80's computers. The problem that I had, is that I could never stick to one computer for very long... So, I have decided to spend a lot of time on my KIM-1 to start. I have already made several videos and read several books. But I am still enjoying myself on this simple system. You should be able to hook your CompuPro up to your regular computer using a terminal program. That way you can resolve your keyboard issue and allow you to upload programs into your Compupro's memory. So, that you might be able to create some boot disks.
