Re: BX720D Project

On 2014-11-28 19:04, Steve Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After about 6 years I finally (well almost) completed my BX720D project.
> As you may know the CBM-II high-profile machines were planned to have
> built-in disk drives and 8088 coprocessor board. Well, Commodore never
> completed or released such a machine, although they did build all the
> parts needed to assemble one. Recently I was able to test one of the
> 8088 boards that I've had sitting around for 7 years and finally got it
> working, so I set myself to completing my project.
>
> The computer is a Commodore 710 with a 110V power supply, and 256K ram
> installed. The internal drives are taken from an 8296-D machine. They
> needed to be modified to fit into the CBM-II.

Nice - someone else had to finish the job CBM was once supposed to do. 
Just - why did you have to modify the drives? I could bet I have some 
machines of this style with internal drives in my storage. CBM did it. 
So basically the 8088 board would be missing. Or you just didn't have / 
wanted to do it on the particular machine you had at hand?

-- 
SD!

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