9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
10:38 a.m.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:25:51 +0200
"Bernd Kopriva" <bernd at kopriva.de> wrote:
I acquired an empty board some weeks ago from eBay
...
... hope to find some time to collect the necessary parts and build it
in near future.
Ciao Bernd
Hopefully there will be an archive of system software up and available
for you to download by the time you get that board populated.
I'm working towards that, anyhow.
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 23:16:54 -0500, Scott Stevens
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