Date   : Sat, 17 Mar 1984 02:42:00-EST
From   : Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc>
Subject: FDC Recommendations

1. CompuPro is now distributing Tony Pietsch's HMX BIOS for CP/M
2.2 systems, and his TMX BIOS for CP/M 8/16; both are ENORMOUS
improvements over the stuff that Compupro used to put out.  (It
was only recently that they discovered there was any such things
as software...)

2. There is a wonderful machine called a Disk Maker that has an
S-100 board, and will drive 5 1/4" drives; it can manage to
convert almost anything to something that almost anything else
can read.  At $1500 it's the cat's meow for anyone who's got the
problem of transferring stuff from one format to another.

3. Tony Pietsch has designed a new S-100 board that does all the
IBM PC Graphics; it makes the CompuPro systems about 85-90%
compatible with the IBM PC (and one whack of a lot faster).  It
should be for sale Real Soon Now (watch upcoming comlumns for
more info).  A brass board exists and works, so it's only a
question of time.