RE: BETSI Expander for the Commodore PET

2017-05-09 Thread John Ball via cctalk
>This sounds an awful lot like the KIMSI, which was the same manufacturer. I >have such a unit, and as you would expect, it connects to the KIM-1. I can >drag it out and take a picture of it but I don't remember it particularly >complex on the board. I know Bruce Damer has a KIMSI as well in the c

Re: BETSI Expander for the Commodore PET

2017-05-08 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 5/8/2017 6:02 PM, william degnan via cctalk wrote: Don French talked about the S100 expansion he created for the TRS 80 Model 1 A friend sold a TRS80 -> 488 -> sasi pile that allowed him to hook up 2.5mb and 5mb drives. I don't recall his company but he did well enough to bootstrap Peer

Re: BETSI Expander for the Commodore PET

2017-05-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> So it seems in the early days of the PET a company by the name of > Forethought Prouducts sold an expansion module called the BETSI which > plugged into the expansion bus of the PET and gave you four S100 slots. If This sounds an awful lot like the KIMSI, which was the same manufacturer. I have

Re: BETSI Expander for the Commodore PET

2017-05-08 Thread william degnan via cctalk
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:35 PM, John Ball via cctalk wrote: > So it seems in the early days of the PET a company by the name of > Forethought Prouducts sold an expansion module called the BETSI which > plugged into the expansion bus of the PET and gave you four S100 slots. If > you google around

BETSI Expander for the Commodore PET

2017-05-08 Thread John Ball via cctalk
So it seems in the early days of the PET a company by the name of Forethought Prouducts sold an expansion module called the BETSI which plugged into the expansion bus of the PET and gave you four S100 slots. If you google around you can find a flyer advertising the unit and optional power supply an