25 Apr
2017
25 Apr
'17
8:46 p.m.
Jim, I'll have a 16B at VCF-SE this weekend. You take as close a look as
you want. It has a single slim 8" drive, an internal 15MB hard disk, and
an external 5 MB hard disk. It also has the 68K card stack with 768KB
RAM. I don't have a keyboard for it though. I bought a 16 keyboard
thinking it would work at the time; then hit the cabling problem.
Does anyone know if the 16 keyboard circuitry will work with a 16B if I
created a custom cable?
-Alan
On 2017-04-25 22:56, Peter Cetinski via cctalk wrote:
16B was factory maxed at 768k but I'm pretty sure 1MB is fine.
On Apr 25,
2017, at 10:52 PM, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
So, the 16B has the KB conn on the machine, but the KB?
And, the 16B has the Z80 motherboard, witht eh 68K in the cage?
16B keyboard is the same as the 12. Cord is on the KB with a male connector. Female is on
the machine.
16B has the same main board as the 12 with 68K in the cage. Notice I use "main
board" as technically the cage board was referred to as the motherboard in these
machines.
The 6000 released in 1985 was a slightly enhanced 16B with the biggest difference being
the upgrade to an 8Mhz MC68000. This system allowed you to run XENIX 3.x and address up to
1MB of RAM. I thought the 16B could also do 1MB of RAM? Can the 6000 still run the Z80 Oses (like TRSDOS II
and such)? (I assume so, since you noted that all units of this entire line used a Z80 for
IO)
Yes, the 6000 can run all previous software.
Jim