Sol20.org – Links
- The Digibarn Computer Museum has
an enviable number of interesting computers and an even more
interesting and enviable place to keep them. Of special note, it has
an informative
Sol page with a number of photos and links to other Sol information.
Be sure to
check out
the panel of key Processor Technology employees who gathered together
for a 30th anniversary celebration at VCF 9.
- The Atari Archives
has been doing a fantastic job of getting permission to scan and
post a lot of classic computer publications. One of them is
The Best of Creative Computing, Volume 3, where there is a
review of the Sol-20.
- Actually, all of that and more can be found at the
CPMUG archive
-
Herbert R Johnson has some documents he is willing to copy and sell
- Stan Sieler's computer collection
has some information on the Sol
- Rich Cini has a
page of documents he has scanned, including some Processor
Tech docs
- Greg Goodwin (Dr. Clu) has a
webpage
on the Sol
- Corestack has
a picture of a Sol opened up. You can see the personality module
with the four eproms in the upper left corner of the picture. It
also has a very interesting, but brief, description of another machine
designed by
Lee Felsenstein,
the
Micro-Expander.
Lee also designed the what is undoubtedly his most famous machine, the
Osborne microcomputer.
- Randy Wilson has HTML-ized some
Sol literature for our amusement
- The
Computer Closet has a web page and has a couple scans of ads
- Stan Veit wrote an
interesting book on the early history of the micro-revolution,
written as an insider. There is an entire chapter on Processor
Technology and the Sol computer. Pick it up for only $5.
-
Jeff's Comliter Haven has something to say about the Sol
- THOCP also has a
Sol webpage
-
Charles Eicher restored a Sol-20 back to operation.
He also has a
picture
of his Sol generating some blocky graphics via the Graphic-Add display
mod.
- Where does the Sol fit in the timeline of microcomputers?
Here's one version.
- David Williams' Trailing Edge
site has a
Sol computer
that I have a special connection to. I gave him the Sol and he gave
me an Exidy Sorcerer.
-
The Computer Museum of America
-
Old-Computers.com has a museum and a page on the Sol
- The Machine Room
also has information about the Sol, but a fair amount of it is entirely
confused
-
Here is a Sol-20 that made it across the Atlantic
- PC-History site has a mention
of the Sol, but no real information
- Cyberstreet
has a Sol page
-
The University of Virginia computer museum
has a couple blurbs and photos of the Sol
- (Dead link?) Of special note is Ed's DX-Forth web page.
One program
located there is reportedly able to decode Sol tapes (or Kansas
City format tapes in general), and
another program
converts to and from ENT format.