=========================================================================== Wednesday May 10, 2006 After repeated setbacks and stupid mistakes, the second run of P112 boards has finally shipped. I now have an inventory of approximately 15 kits ready to go. This means no more months waiting for a kit. After you order one, it'll be in the mail TOMORROW. =========================================================================== Monday January 9, 2006 The Second Run of P112 boards has now started. Out of the 100 boards made and stuffed, I have 60 remaining. $120 by money order ($125 by Paypal) in the continental United States will get you a kit within a week or two. Outside the US, I'll need to check shipping rates. In either case, email me before sending payment. =========================================================================== Wednesday January 4, 2006 The first run of P112 has shipped to US buyers! I'm packing up the kits for outside the US right now. =========================================================================== Thursday December 29, 2005 The last of the bugs in the new boot ROM have been squashed. I have the chips themselves in my hands. The manual looks good. Everything is ready to go. All I need to do now is burn the documentation CDs, re-image the boot disks to the latest release, and pack kits into boxes. There will probably be updates to the system disk suite later. These will be distributed over the Internet however. If you missed out on my first run of boards and want in on the second run, email me with your full name and mailing address. I expect to order more parts a week from now. =========================================================================== Tuesday November 29, 2005 I've unearthed two SCSI cases similar to the one I put my P112 in, except they have three full-height bays instead of one. I don't think I'll use them, so they're free to anyone who'll pay shipping. That should be $18 to $20 for one in the continental US. If you want both, it shouldn't be much more. The 1-gig SCSI drives that were in them are also free to good homes. They weigh 7 pounds each. =========================================================================== Monday Novmber 21, 2005 Terry has finished testing his GIDE interface card for the P112. The prototypes are good and he's starting to get things ready for production. He hasn't decided on a price yet. They will be offered either as kits or assembled and tested. =========================================================================== Sunday November 20, 2005 I got the programmed boot roms from Terry yesterday. These new roms wouldn't boot the latest system disk images, but would boot earlier ones. This problem has been tracked down to wrongly enabling flow control on a non-flow-control terminal, thus wedging the boot process. Previously I didn't know how to make a PDF reader aware of the LaTeX-generated table of contents. Now I have the manual doing this correctly. This should make browsing the manual PDF much easier. I've uploaded a new draft. Take a look. =========================================================================== Friday November 11, 2005 I'm waiting for programmed boot roms from Terry to arrive. System disk is finalized. Source disk is finalized. Both are available for download, I'm still tweaking the manual. Looks like everything is in place for delivery as soon as I get the roms. =========================================================================== Monday October 24, 2005 Uploaded some pictures of my P112 and its chassis (which once held a full-height hard drive). =========================================================================== Sunday October 23, 2005 I've brushed the dust off the mailing list that Chris set up for me way back in March. There is now a Mailman mailing list for the P112 at http://lists.feedle.net/mailman/listinfo/p112. I guess that makes it "the official support center". =========================================================================== Friday October 21, 2005 Terry sent me his finalized ZSDOS system disk image via email and some rom chips by snail mail. I'll check the disk image later tonight. The chips should arrive by Tuesday. Once I check and verify those, the kits should be ready to ship. While I'm waiting, I'm tidying up the manual. I got an email from Dave Brooks today stating that he never had a problem with DISKCOPY running slowly. =========================================================================== Tuesday October 18, 2005 Quickly whipped together a website to keep everyone up to date on the P112 Project. To bring you all up to speed, Terry Gulczynski has taken it on himself to produce the ZSDOS system disk and update the boot rom. The new boot rom will be version 5 and is based on Hal Bower's last one, version 4b1. I've added new disk definitions to the cpmtools package to support the P112 disk format. Currently we're shaking bugs out of the new BIOS. A problem that prevented Drive B from being accessed was fixed yesterday. There's still a problem preventing the disk from booting when the NVRAM is blank. Yes, one can manually give it defaults in the ROM monitor, but still. DISKCOPY needs serious work. It's SLOWWWWWW, like 15 minutes to write a disk.