Adrian
I acquired a PCW9512 motherboard a year or so ago and I really wanted to get it up and going so I can build a little case for it and turn it into a proper CP/M plus hack machine.The challenge? Getting a Gotek working on the PCW9512. There are some .. issues.Specifically - the flash floppy support...
Adrian
In my previous post I yanked enough of the PCW9512+ apart and debugged why the power supply just plainly wasn't working.Now it's time to see if the rest of the board was working.The first thing to do is test the power supply without having the 9512+ logic board (and the CRT side) powered up. The...
Adrian
I'm on a bit of a "i wish I had a PCW as a kid" kick. So yeah, I have a working out of the box PCW8256 that has been upgraded to a PCW8512 (but with only one floppy drive for now. Stay tuned.) I got lucky; that one was in the US and didn't need any modification to work here. (And, amusingly,...