Date   : Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:34:43 +0000
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Non BBC-B related

Doh!  Sent this to Jules instead of the list, first time around.  Sorry, 
Jules.

On 31/10/2007 12:16, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Rob wrote:

> heh heh. I've got to fine my 32K one later as it's off to a new home. I'm 
> keeping the Dragon 64 though I think (it's got the disk drive and a boat-load 
> of original disk software, including OS-9)

I have drives for my Dragon 32, but I've never used them.

>> So who's got the details on turning it into a 6809 second processor
>> for a beeb, and something to run on it therafter?  (Not that I've got
>> room at the moment...)
> 
> Yes, somewhere. There was a two-issue article in a magazine (What Micro I 
> think) called 'Dragon in the TUBE' way back when. I had the first part, and 
> someone kindly scanned the second part for me a year or two ago.
> 
> Things are all upside-down here right now, but if nobody else has it then prod 
> me again in a month or two and I can probably dig it out.

I'd be interested too. Oh, wait, not another project... ;-)

> 'something to run on it' is more tricky. I think the one covered in the 
> article was designed to run FLEX (OS-9's little sibling), but of course the 
> FLEX version produced for the article is nowhere to be found. FLEX for a 
> different system could be adapted I suppose given sufficient determination to 
> hack I/O drivers, but it's not exactly a trivial project.
> 
> Acorn did a 6809 board for the System bus, incidentally - so there was 
> official 6809 hardware for Acorn machines.

I've got the manuals, and I think Tony Duell may have the software.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
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                                               University of York