micom 2000 pictures, etc.

That's great news and good pics. I don't find it slow at all. I've been procrastinating about putting up a MICOM page for years. Now it's time for me to get off my keister and scan the documentation I've got, and also make copies of some of the 8" floppies. I've been avoiding mastering the process of transferring them to 5.25 back to when Tim Shippa and others described the process in detail on the list. Also the bunch of TRS-80 mod.II disks I have. Mea culpa. Some years ago I had an 8032 which I fiddled with and even tediously copied some programs from public library back-issues of early magazines, entered them line-by-line and put them on cassette tape. I eventually gave it away. It wasn't nearly as interesting a machine as the MICOM. And fairly common at the time. Altho the fold-up top was interesting. It's been some time since I've used my Micom. It developed a problem with one of the keyboard lines. I can't remember whether it was the "command" button or the "Tab", but it multiplexed some other commands so limiting it's functioning. I thought it might be one of the KBs strange capacitors, but now I suspect it's likely only a cable fault. The latch on my Shugart was broken and I fashioned a quick fix with a wood wedge. My TRS80 mod.II has the same problem. I'll get it functioning again and likely, if the KB permits, simply making a duplicate of the 2 OS disks would be the easiest way to get it to you. I'll also scan the docs and eventually the other material I have, like the Philips newsletters, communications and advertising. The cables shouldn't be a problem to replace in an urban center. Up here in the boonies, it's a MS-Winslop world, so it's more of a problem. I might ask a favor of getting some ribbon cable in return later on. It would be good to get a closer shot of the KB. What looks like a numerical keypad on the righthand side in the pic is actually the function controls. Do you know how close the backplane is to the S-100 configuration ? I've never seen an S-100 in the flesh. Good stuff. I'll get back to you off-list once I get mine up and functioning again. Guess this puts my DEC Pro 350, TRS80 mod.II with the 3 HDs, Osborne 1, and H/Z 89 further back in the to-do queue. Oh well. One thing that comes to mind is what Philips still has in their archives and whether they'd release it. At least till Dec/90 when I contacted them, they had Micom 2000 programs for sale. They also had something called the Power Pac II software. The later Micom versions up to 84 were the 2001, 2002, 3003, and 3004. The 2001 had dual disks, the 2002 Twin Satellite, 2 displays and 2 keyboards. Charley Fox a list member has/had a 2001, dont know what model. Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com