From: Geoff Oltmans <geoff@sprynet.com>

Subject: Interesting info about IDE...

Well, in my searching through the internet I located a page
containing information for GIDE...the Generic IDE interface for 
8-bit computers....the following statement caught my eye.

> The GIDE board plugs into a Z80 CPU socket, and the Z80 CPU
 plugs into the GIDE board. The first round of boards in the US
 has gone to developers, since software needs to be written for
 different systems. As of January 1996, several developers in 
 the USA have boards and are writing software for the clock and 
 for the IDE drive. As their software is received, it is includ-
 ed with the development kit,  and distributed via the Internet 
 to all previous developers. An IDE BIOS for the TRS-80 has been 
 recieved, and developers are writing code for a number of CP/M 
 systems, the ADAM, and a CD-ROM  interface!


Hmmmm! Isn't that interesting?

http://www.psyber.com/~tcj/tcjguide.html if you're interested. :)

*Geoff!*


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