News
October 21, 2023
It is a rare day when something new turns up, and today it is a significant item. Jason Slade scanned his Encyclopedia Processor Technica, Vol. 1. and shared it with us. Beware it 230 MB. Thank you, Jason!
January 8, 2022
Over the past 18 months, a number of Sol-20 happenings have accumulated in my email inbox and here are some overdue updates.
- Nino Porcino has written (in 2021!) a Tetris game for the Sol-20.
- Michael Gardi has written a Sol-20 emulator, written in Python & the pygame library. I've written some brief notes on installing and running his emulator.
- The great Bitsavers website added a new directory with some great Processor Technology manuals and brochures (see the subdirectories there too)
- I cleaned up the links page to remove some dead links and change the URLs of a few pages which have moved.
July 3, 2020
Dave from osiweb.org has designed a number of replacement parts for Sol-20 computers. Go to the top entry on the links page for all the details.
May 25, 2020
Paolo Binotti contributed three more manual scans, available on the manuals page. Thank you, Paolo!
- Sol Systems Manual, 1978
- Sol Terminal Computer User's Manual, 1978
- 16KRA User's Manual, 3rd revision
March 1, 2019
Updates to the links page
- Julie Porter's amazing port of PT Extended Cassette BASIC to the AVR microcontroller. The github repository also provides a commented reconstruction of the original 8080 asm source.
- Hugo Holden's investigation of the Sol-20 cassette interface
- Hugo Holden's article on solving a Sol-20 lockup problem
... (older items are no longer noted) ...
December, 1999
Web site started