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   F.J. Kraan to Mike Y   
   Re: Info on Pickles & Trout CCB board fo   
   01 Aug 10 12:35:56   
   
   From: fjkraan@xs4all.nl   
      
   On 07/31/2010 12:54 PM, Mike Y wrote:   
   > Wow, I didn't know that existed at all!  But it took up a slot in the   
   > motherboard.   
   >   
   > I had made a number of boards for friends that sat on the HD cable for my   
   > Model II.  One was a clock board.  I just got tired or setting the date and   
   > time all the time on every boot.  I did that because I was short of slots.   
   > 4 original Model II cards, a graphics card, the HDC card, and then 68K and   
   > Memory card filled it up.   
      
   An HD cable as in I/O-only-bus like that of the Model 3/4, connecting to   
   a WD1002/HD0 or WD1002/5 card? I still have one of those.   
   >   
   > Another was a PC bus card that you could plug in a T1000 mouse with clock   
   > callender (or actually ANY PC card, as long as it used every other IO   
   > address)  There was actually support for it hidden in the tar disk set for   
   > Xenix.  The first one I made actually let the T2000 mouse board work on my   
   > Model II, but then I ended up making a lot of them that worked on the PC bus   
   > since I could get T1000 mouse boards pretty easy.   
      
   The idea was to get or rebuild an existing clock card, but if the T1000   
   mouse/clock card has a driver, that would be an option too :-) Are there   
   drivers available for TRS-DOS 2 and CP/M?   
   >   
   > Mike   
   >   
   > "F.J. Kraan"  wrote in message   
   > news:4c51b876$0$22917$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...   
   >> Has anyone has any info on the Pickles&  Trout CCB board for the Model II?   
   >> It is a real time clock and speaker board. I have an old advertisement:   
   >> http://www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/tmp/P&T_CLOCALPEEP.jpg.   
   >>   
   >> It is of course supported by the Pickles&  Trout CP/M for the model   
   >> II/12/16.   
   >   
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