tezza wrote:lizardb0y wrote:I've started on my Briel 8800micro build, and am logging it
here. My plan is to do something every day this month, whether big, small or indifferent. Today there are big thumbs up to
Element 14 for being consistently the best place to order parts from, ever.
Andrew, reading your blog (and watching the video) makes ME want one. All those geeky switches and lights!
Yeah, it's great isn't it? It took less time to build than I'd expected, but all those chip sockets, switches and LEDs took a fair bit of effort!
tezza wrote:Does the Briel 8800 come with a cabinet to mount the faceplate and board, or do you have to do that yourself?
Everything is (in theory) supplied with the kit. Mine was missing a couple of caps and the 16Mhz crystal, but that was completely accidental.
tezza wrote:I'm assuming if the SD card was working it would boot to CP/M, yes?
Using this boot method it boots into it's own bootloader, from where you can load binaries directly off the SD card by specifying the filename. It only has 32K SRAM as supplied so CP/M isn't possible. Vince has just annouced an expansion card that takes it to 64K SRAM and two RAM disk emulated floppy drives which will allow CP/M:
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