9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
10:43 a.m.
Aren't Pete's bits heading to Germany soon? :-)
Well, at least if someone happens to be able to transport them! Maybe
the Conitec system could be taken at the same time? (it's the size of a
PC XT case - which in fact is exactly what it's housed in)
cheers,
Jules
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 22:30, Bernd Kopriva wrote:
Hi Jules,
i would be happy to take that little beauty ...
... unfortunately, i don't come to the UK the next days, weeks, months (maybe years),
and shipping
will be too expensive :-(
Or is anyone out there, who is incidentally :-) on a trip from the UK to germany and
could bring it over
here (maybe near Stuttgart ...) ?
Bernd
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:15:54 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:41, Bernd Kopriva wrote:
Hi Jules,
it looks like you found a nice Z80 CP/M system ...
... the CPU card is probably a PROF80, and the I/O board is a GRIP 1 terminal
card. Both of them had been distributed by conitec, germany.
For starters, this machine's available for pickup, now with manuals :)
Bernd, you were exactly right. I'd spotted that the parallel port of the
machine was hand-labelled in both French and English, and recalled
seeing a stack of papers in French in the same room that the machine had
been stored.
On a hunch I went back and grabbed them, figuring the machine and the
papers may have once belonged to the same person. Most of them were junk
- game cheats and the like. However I struck gold - finding buried
within them the GRIP manual, PROF-80 manual, various CP/M text, and the
manual for the keyboard which came with the machine.
Realistically, the museum has too many CP/M machines already. I
certainly don't have the space to hang onto it nor the time to do
anything with it (I've got my Research Machines if I want to play with
CP/M anyway).
Anyone want to come and get it? Only possible catch with it being in the
UK is that, as Bernd says, it's a German machine - so the manuals are
all in German too. Maybe someone wants to move it back to Germany? :-)
Somebody give it a home!
cheers,
Jules