Draft:CUTS
Submission declined on 1 June 2025 by Chetsford (talk).
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Comment: Needs additional demonstration of WP:SIGCOV to exist as a standalone article Chetsford (talk) 15:34, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: I don't this is notable enough for a stand-alone article you may be able to add some of this content to the Sol-20 article. McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 23:20, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
With this being my first attempt at writing an article for Wikipedia, please forgive this work's shortcomings; it's been a long time since I've had to cite a sufficient number of relevant references. With the VDM-1 board already posted on Wikipedia and the 3P+S also posted as a stub, it seemed fitting that this other board from the 'Subsystem B' board set should also have a presence (whether its a article or a stub).
When published, this article will provide additional links for the Processor Technology S100 Board List as well as several mentions in the Kansas City Standard articles.
Looking forward to hearing your suggestions as to how I can polish this piece up to meet the high standards of Wikipedia. Jason
CUTS Board
Processor Technology Corporation, the makers of the Sol-20 computer packaged the cassette tape interface of the Sol into this S-100 CUTS[1] (Computer Users Tape System) board was designed and manufactured by . This interface provided cassette tape storage for the early S-100 microcomputers of the 1970s. With one or two compact cassette tape decks connected to this board, users could now save and retrieve program and/or data to and from audio tape. By reading and writing data at 1200baud, the CUTS board provided a dramatic speed improvement over the paper punch tape method of program retrieval.
Previously in 1975, the Kansas City Standard for cassette data storage was defined. Processor Technology incorporated the KC Standard as well as their faster compatible CUTS format into their as well as this CUTS board.
Early kit computer enthusiasts with an S-100 bus computer such as the MITS Altair 8800, IMSAI 8080 or similar chassis usually wanted something more than switches for input and LEDs for output. They wanted to interface their computer to external devices such as a monitor, keyboard, dumb terminal, printer, teletype, paper tape reader/writer and cassette tape drives. The CUTS board first appeared in a company advertisement in the December 1976 issue of Byte Magazine. No details were provided other than the price[2].
Later, the board was incorporated into PTC's Subsystem "B" board set, which simplified system integration by eliminating the need for enthusiansts to source and combine the functions of various boards from different vendors. In the March 1977 edition of Byte magazine, the company started promoting the board set. The advertisement opening line read: "Subsystem "B" makes the computer you already have work almost as well as a new Sol-20."[3] Besides the CUTS board, the set included the VDM-1 video display board, the 3P+S Serial / Parallel I/O board, the GPM (General Purpose Memory Module) PROM / RAM board and one of three different RAM boards.
Combining an 8080 CPU board with the Subsystem "B" [4] board set along with PTC's CUTER firmware, either in PROM on the GPM board or loaded into RAM from paper or cassette tape, the computer was comparable in power and compatible with software written for PTC's Sol-20 all-in-one computer.
References
[edit]- ^ S-100 CUTS Board Manual
- ^ Processor Technology Corp. "Introducing Sol systems" (PDF). Byte December 1976. 0 (16): 75.
- ^ Processor Technology Corp. "Subsystem "B" makes the computer you already have work almost as well as a new Sol-20" (PDF). Byte March 1977. 02 (3): 63.
- ^ Subsystem B Manual
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