[sebhc] Re: [HEATH-TEMPE] H-89 Computer

[Bob And Bettina Groh]

Dwight, come on, you can't leave us hanging like that! I have a slew of 
old IDE hard drives lying around - real small one's (only a couple of 
100 MB). Too small for any use on my PC's and now you indicate that 
maybe adding one to my H-89 could be somewhat simple?  I would be 
willing to throw my hardware design 'expertise' into the pot for doing a 
schematic and PC layout (seems there is fairly inexpensive board fab 
houses out there) if someone else in the group can pull together a paper 
design and someone else can do some software drivers and someone can 
debug and get every up and running. 

Bob

Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>Hi
> Adding a IDE drive is the simplest. It is just
>some latches to expand 8 to 16 bits, bus buffers
>and some software. Ahh. There's the rub, some
>software.
>Dwight
>
>
>>From: "Bob And Bettina Groh" <rgroh at swbell.net>
>>
>>Two distinct possibilities:
>>1.    good old eBay. H-89s show up there frequently. External Harddrive 
>>is an interesting option! Kind of wish my H-89 had a hard drive.
>>
>>2.    drop a line to the guys on the Heath computer mailing list - in 
>>fact, I am copying this over to there to see what happens.
>>
>>I have been using both avenue's to selectively reduce my Heathkit 
>>computer stock.  You will certainly get some interest although you may 
>>not get rich!
>>
>>Best of luck.
>>
>>Bob Groh, WA2CKY
>>
>>Note: anyone interested should contact Phil directly at <PErnvall at AOL.COM>
>>
>>
>>Phil Ernvall wrote:
>>
>>>I have a Heathkit H-89 I built about 1983 plus external 8MB HD  and MX-80 
>>>printer.  Last time I fired it up (20 yrs ago?) it  operated.  Any ideas on 
>>>
>where 
>
>>>I can find a good home for this?   Thanks.  
>>>Phil E.
>>>
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