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