🚀 go-pugleaf

I am trying to raise from the dead an old Ithaca Encore.  It appears
to be basically a standard S-100 system with Z-80 CPU, floppy controller,
hard drive interface card, memory, and SIO board.  There are, however,
TWO MAJOR problems:

  1.  Guess what, it arrived with NO TRACE of manuals

  2.  All the boards have a little sticker glued on that says:

             ** CAUTION **
          Use ONLY in ENCORE.
            See Manual.                    {I only wish I could!!}

Anybody know anything about this thing?  Are the manuals sets still
available from Ithaca (seems like I remember they changed their
name some years ago)?  Anyone have a manual set I could BUY, or pay
you to copy?    

And does anyone know anything about this CAUTION msg?  [My *guess*
is that there is some "reserved" S-100 pin they are using for
themselves.]

Exact boards are:  XPU-80, 256KDR, I/O HDA-1 (with OMTI-20), FDC-2
I have managed to power the thing up, and can *sometimes* get it to
respond (unknown autobaud character or something, not consistent),
but can only guess at a few of the commands.  A boot diskette would
definitely (!) be a step in the right direction.

						tnx

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