[ale] petition

[James P. Kinney III]

I don't know if a port would be possible for this beastie. It currently
runs on CP/M. Everything is in ROM. To change the OS would require
fabricating a rom flasher from scratch as they are not built any more.

It has an rs232 port. So it could be used as a serial port controller
for a house automation system. Let's see, how do I write an app in 4k
ram...?

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 12:44, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> Hmmm... aren't there people who make a hobby of porting Linux to things like
> that? :-)
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:12 AM
> > To: Gene Matthews
> > Cc: ALE
> > Subject: RE: [ale] petition
> >
> >
> > Hey! I've got a 1984 NEC Starlett laptop with wordstar in ROM. No floppy
> > drives! Built in 300 baud modem, 32k ram.  The keyboard is really nice.
> > Someone probably paid $3k-$5k for this thing new. I would have to refer
> > to the manuals for all the 2 key commands to actually _use_ wordstar. I
> > had a disk with visicalc a long time ago. But the 8" floppy drive is
> > long dead!
> 
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