Zilog Zeus

Hi Tony,

thanks for responding! Would you feel comfortable to copy
the
distribution tape or create a TAR hard disk backup? It would
be
a great help.

I'm working on emulating a Zeus system based on the East
German
P8000 towers. It would be very interesting to find out how
similar
this system actually is to your system. As a background -
the East
Germans could not get their hands on a Zeus system directly
due to
US export control laws. However, they seem to 've got it
anyway -
and so their own Z80, Z8000 ICs as well. Did they actually
copy
the system from somewhere and reverse engineered it or did
they 
write it from scratch no match exactly the original.

Those tapes/disk would be great for reference.

Cheers,
Matt 

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
>No real info, alas...
>
>Zeus was supposedly an acronym for Zilog Enhanced Unix
System , or 
>something similar
>
>I ahve a Zilog S8000 Model 30 (the large-ish tower
machine built in 
>slices with an SMD hard disk and QIC tape drive). I
should have the 
>(inary) distriution tape for that somewhere, and I hope
the hard disk is 
>still readable (I've not used it for some time, it was
fine last time I 
>used it, and I locked the heads afterwards...). But no
source code, or 
>even full shcemaitcs (YET!).
>
>-tony

> 
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> thanks for responding! Would you feel comfortable to
copy the
> distribution tape or create a TAR hard disk backup? It
would be
> a great help.

I can try, but iy's not going to be any time soon. I've got
a lot of 
other things I need to do first...

-tony