Talk:Ferguson Big Board
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[edit] Removed telephone spam
--Wtshymanski 15:22, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Big board Geocities pages
The commented out external links are not available in the Internet archive either. The archive lists pages in June and October of 2002 but both pages are blank. --Blainster 23:13, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Centronics Port
On the Xerox 820/820-II implementation of BigBoard, a Centronics port was not fully implemented. Instead there was a Zilog PIO (parallel) chip that was brought out to a row of header pins. A custom cable could be built using ribbon cable between a header plug and a Centronics connector, but there was a specific way to wire it up, more complicated than a straight through connection. User:DaveM Sept. 1, 2006
[edit] MicroCornucopia
MicroCornucopia was magazine for the BigBoard (KayPro, Xerox 820, etc.) community published in Bend, Oregon. It featured useful hardware projects and ran ads for independent software and hardware developers. For example a 1MB RAMdisk interfacing with the KayPro's printer port was advertised. This was tremendously faster than floppy disks and even the hard disks of that era.
Once MS-DOS had virtually squashed CP/M, MicroCornucopia tried to reinvent itself with articles for the MS-DOS world, but couldn't make a go of that. User:DaveM Sept. 1, 2006
