7 Mar
2013
7 Mar
'13
2:15 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
The one that I was talking about was the MPX-16
That's the one I remember. I _read_ the articles at the time,
but so much of it was far, far over what I knew at the time
that about the only thing I walked away from the experience
with was the thought that "gee, this Intel stuff is *way* more
complicated than this 6502 stuff in front of me."
It was available... for $1200
$595 wave soldered kit
$400 bare board
It would have been out of my price comfort zone...
Waay over mine (it took me 2 years to save up half the
cost of a PET in 1979, but I was too young to have a
"real" job yet).
...if I hadn't gotten the chance to take over
somebody else's
unfinished (not even completely soldered yet) project.
THAT brought the price into range.
Sounds like a great deal for you.
I never knew anyone around here who had one. Plenty
of folks 10-15 years older than me had CP/M machines,
but the first 8088s I saw were genuine IBM 5150s and
the Eagle Computer clones we talk about from time to
time here.
So did you run CP/M-86 on yours or MS-DOS?
-ethan