7 Oct
2005
7 Oct
'05
8:17 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 07:29:40 -0700 (PDT)
Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
dont have one, but want one. I hope youll make disk
images available.
I certainly will. A list member has extended a warm welcome to the idea
of me imaging my disks and putting them on his site. More to follow
when they're all imaged and online.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
Does anybody else on the list have an MPX-16
system?
I recently
acquired one from a list member and am wondering
how
many of these
systems still exist. I have a large (relatively)
collection of
diskettes with mine.
The MPX-16, for those not familiar with it, was
published as a project
in Steve Ciarcia's 'Circuit Cellar'
column in Byte
magazine. It was a
three part 'construction' article and the
machine
was sold by MicroMint
for a time. What I've heard is that about
500
machines in total were
produced.
It's an early 'IBM Compatible' in that they designed
it to be similar
to
the PC, but only to a certain degree. It uses a
serial console rather
than keyboard/display adapter, and it runs
CP/M-86
and supposedly MS-DOS
though I don't have DOS diskettes for mine.
It has
ISA slots and a
similar architecture to the IBM-PC, coming out of
that early era before
there were PC clones from the likes of Compaq.
I'm curious of how many other MPX-16 systems have
survived to today.
There isn't a lot about it online. I can
share what
information I have,
as I have manuals and docs with my system.
I'm
interested in hearing
from other people with this machine.
Scott
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