Date   : Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:23:11 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Unicorn Sighted!

Fragula wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> <grumpy old man mode on>
> Be assured I'm not bidding on this! That's a disgusting price for a
> butchered  about 6502 cheesewedge with a zep-100 in it!

Hmm, I have a boxful of those boards in the loft... one day I might get around 
to testing them and getting shot of them...

67 quid for a not-quite-compatible CP/N board. That's nuts.

> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BBC-Torch-Z80-Acorn-6502-second-processor_W0QQitemZ8266893817
> 
> There we are, Definitely not a Legend. And apparently I may have one
> already  (I have a  Zep100 board in the "tower" case with floppy and
> (rather flakey) 1Mhz<>SASI/SCSI and Genuine ST506 (model number as well
> as interface!) hard disk)

<digs Torch advertising out>

Unicorn was your tower case but with the Z80/68000 Neptune board (256 or 1MB 
memory, 68k CPU @ 10MHz and Z80 @ 5MHz) inside, plus the disk controller and a 
hard disk. Ran UniPlus System III.

Can't remember what the product name was of the equivalent cased system that 
just had the Z80 board and ran CP/N, but it did exist.

Looks like this seller has a plain old Z80 board, but has the ROM set from a 
Unicorn for some reason.

> Still its way over price. Somebody.. Two people actually, have been daft
> enough to bid on it. <sigh> It even opened@...£65!!! There 'aint arf sum
> muppets out there.

All these Ebay shenanigans keep on making we want to stick stuff on there just 
to see what happens! Something like a Neptune / Atlas 68k board in a ropey old 
cheese wedge box...

I'd love to get hold of the install disk set for Torch's System III by the 
way, just in case anyone has it. Should be on 24 floppies. The only copy I 
have is installed on a rather flakey hard disk...

cheers

Jules