IEEE interface in 128 mode?

[Steve Gray]

Hi,

Was there ever an IEEE interface for the 128 that worked in 128 mode?
I have a BUSCARD II and a RTC LINK II. I'm pretty sure the buscard only worked in 64 mode, but I have no manual for the RTC...

Steve

[Guest]

Silver Surfer 128.  They are very rare, very hard to come by, and if you find someone who has one, he usually will part with a body part first.

[Steve Gray]

The Silver Surfer seems to be an Ethernet card addon for the Retro Replay cartridge...

I'm looking for an IEEE-488 interface to connect old CBM drives (4040, 8050, SFD etc) to the 128.

Steve

[Steve Gray]

After looking on the web, I think you meant to say "Quicksilver". Easy to get confused. Thanks for pointing me in the general direction though ;-)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.cbm/msg/2f1cf933289bc187

Steve

[Guest]

Yes, silly me.  I last saw one in 1991, so the memory is getting a bit fuzzy on such things.

[fuf]

Hi all,

Also searching for a quicksilver since years for the same purpose.

Does anyone as one ? Any picture ? Rom dump ? User manual scan ?

Any answer welcome. Thanks a lot

Regards - Hervé

[RobertB]

Also searching for a quicksilver since years for the same purpose.

Does anyone as one ? Any picture ? Rom dump ? User manual scan ?

I have the Quicksilver 128 and its instruction manual (in storage, right now).

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[BigDumbDinosaur]

Quicksilver 128 was a Skyles Electric Works product that, while a tad bit crude-looking, worked very well.  Prior to acquiring my Lt. Kernal system in 1987, I used three SFD-1001 drives for mass storage, the entire mess connected to my C-128 with a Quicksilver 128.  All of that went bye-bye after I got the Lt. Kernal.

Skyles also produced the Blitz 128 BASIC compiler, which I used for some software development.  As Commodore compilers went it was better than most.