8 Oct
2005
8 Oct
'05
6:50 a.m.
a scholar and a gentleman. I even considered building
my own, though not sure if MM made the artwork
available. Was put off by the fact that the board has
7 layers according to the article. If anyone is
knowledgeable enough of pcb production - is it
possible to make a 7 layer board w/o special
equipment/materials? Why did it even need 7 layers?
How many layers were did the IBM PC mobo have? I know
for a fact that the RE robot puter (80188) mobo had 2
sides (top and bottom, no sandwich).
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
welcome to the idea
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 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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