Powertran Cortex computer

[Dragon Mech]

yesterday i was going through some files that i had saved from one of the Linux OSes that crusty had on one of the HDDs of my new computer when he sent it to me. i saved the files before i reinstalled the OS to gain administrative access while using the os. anyways, while i was looking through the saved files, i came across and emulator called "WinCortex". the emulator came with the needed ROM image to run the emulator and lucky for me, crusty had downloaded a few disk images for use with the emulator. here is a screenshot of the emulator.

Screenshot of WinCortex at BASIC prompt

after messing with the emulator (and getting nowhere fast), i decided to do some researh on the real computer. the readme file that came with the emulator gave me a few clues, but nothing important like the full name of the real computer or the manufacturer . but it gave the name of the cpu, which lead me here

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9900

and after reading the article ( and getting a headache from trying to understand all of the technical stuff), i found this link:

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 http://www.powertrancortex.com/index.html

this website has tons of info on the Powertran cortex. it even has the above metioned emulator and disk images, free to downlod along with lots of downloadable documents in PDF format. the site has the same goal as TOC does but only focused on the Powertran Cortex.

HT, i think you should contact the owner of the site. i'm thinking you two may beable to work out something as far as getting the emulator and other content in to our collection.

[crustyasp46]

There is a good forum thread on the Powertran Cortex here :

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http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?15580-Powertran-Cortex

Lots of interesting facts and history tid bits from owners of the Powertran Cortex. An active thread with the first posting May 9th,2009 and the most recent posting April 21st, 2014.