[OZAPRS] Small GPS

[Ray Wells]

My uBee's were mostly made up from bits. Living near Gosford, the final 
home of the company, was handy when they had their closing down auction.

I can't remember which uBee applcation or data it was but I was 
successful in converting it from CP/M to DOS with Alien.

32k of RAM and a single 720k floppy, it was like having all of one's 
Christmases arrive at once after months of saving and loading from 
cassette tape. Don't complain to me about your P4 with GB's of RAM being 
slow!

I used dBase II in a semi-serious way on the Bee and was then lucky 
enough to get a version of dBase III for DOS. I had great difficulty 
coming to grips with the programming difference in dB IV when it was 
available.

I tried packet on mine, but bought a second hand IBM XT (4.77M and 640k 
RAM, with 2 x 360k floppies and no HDD) just in time to preserve my 
sanity, which I've since lost completely. Paid the princely sum of $100 
for it around the late 1980's.

Ray vk2tv

On 10/01/11 21:50, Norm, VK3XCI wrote:
> And I have Rodnay Zacs "Programming the Z80" if you want it.... Glory 
> be. I didn't think anyone remembered the microBee, let alone the keys 
> :( I had 3 complete units, Kitset Rom, 32K Rom and dual floppy, 
> complete with one  green and an amber monitor. Ran Packet on it right 
> up to 2002. Sadly the building I had them stored in burnt to the 
> ground. That happens in "The Bush"!  :(
>
>
> Remember the OS (CP/M 80), Wordstar and all the files would fit on a 
> single 720 floppy. And multiplan was the father of Spreadsheets... I 
> could wax on forever....
>
> 73 de Norm, VK3XCI
> Mildura, Australia
> The Wintersun City
> QF15bt.
>
> On 10/01/2011 13:20, Ray Wells wrote:
>> Dave,
>> What disks would you like for your uBee?
>> CP/M Sytem
>> Multiplan
>> Wordstar
>> Mailmerge
>> Spellstar
>> Starindex
>> dBaseII
>>
>> and one new keyboard key
>>
>> Ray vk2tv
>>
>>
>> On 10/01/11 12:18, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, James Cameron wrote:
>>>
>>>> The risk of using TTL output to drive RS-232 RxD is that the RS-232
>>>> standard doesn't define what 0V means. Usually works.
>>> It worked on ye olde Microbee, years ago. Try feeding a TTL receiver 
>>> from
>>> a genuine RS-232 driver, though, and you'll be pulling up stumps.
>>>
>>> -- Dave
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