Transam Tuscan S-100


5.25" CP/M2.2 BOOT DISK WANTED
Restoration
I have a Transam Tuscan S-100 which I recovered from my old school.  I have spent over 10 years restoring it.  The hardware is now fully functional and does partially boot.  Unfortunately their is a faulty sector on the only boot disk I have so I am desperately looking for other Tuscan users.

Tuscan history
The Tuscan S-100 was developed in 1979 by Transam components of London.  It has a Z80 running at 2Mhz or 4Mhz, desk top micro running CP/M 2.2.  It has a full implementation of the S-100 bus for expansion.

My Tuscan configuration
My Tuscan has the following specification:-
  • Z80 running at 4Mhz
  • Single 5.25" Floppy (Out of an Amstrad 1512) would like some full high sugart drives to make it authentic!
  • 48K of static on a S100 memory board Transam ME-3
  • Digit Talker speech card circa 1982
  • Interactive Data Systems S100 Floppy Disk Controller can support 2 x 8" or 2 x 5.25" floppy drives

Software

  • Tuscan Basic
  • Z80 assembler
  • Z80 disassemble
  • WordStar word processor
  • CP/M 2.2 (Faulty boot sector)

Documentation

  • Original Tuscan Hardware software manual including all circuit diagrams an schematics.

 
Restoration Actions

This is my current to do task list to get a Tuscan boot disk operational and make it available to the other Tuscan users.

June 2005 Create a .zip file using anadisk of my Tuscan CP/M 2.2 disk and post to Tuscan user group
July 2005

Analyse the recovered image and compare with the CP/M archive source files to see if I an rebuild the missing boot sector.

If I can, boot Tuscan. Then upload the image to the Tuscan user group.

 
Links

This is the Tuscan user group:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuscans100

 
Contacts
If you have any information on Tuscan's or would like copies of any of my software or documentation contact me on:-

Lyndon Wright: ljw@tuscan.buildandhost.com