1 Jul
2004
1 Jul
'04
11:55 p.m.
Any ideas what system these boards are for?
http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/comps/eurocard
(sorry for bad photos - in a rush!)
Looks to have been homebrewed into an XT clone case.
Bus connectors are 96 way.
Memory card DRAMS are 21256's, so I presume that's 1MB on the board.
CPU card has a Z80B on board plus memory - and a D765 IC, which I think
is an FDC chip IIRC. ROM is labelled "Prof MON 1.3"
Larger chips on the I/O board are a 6845 CTRC, 8255 (PIA IIRC), Mostek
MK3801 (no idea!), Z80A CPU, 6116 SRAM, and a EPROM (with no label).
There's a homebrew card right at the back with nothing much more than a
ROM on it - unfortunately I can't read the handwritten label, but the
first three letters are "tas".
Anyone able to tell me what the machine is or anything about it?
cheers,
Jules
2 Jul
2 Jul
12:41 a.m.
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. The cards were
described in the german computer journal c't (they sold bare boards too) ...
You will find some details at http://www.prof80.de (in german, of course :-))
Bernd
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:55:23 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
Any ideas what system these boards are for?
http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/comps/eurocard
(sorry for bad photos - in a rush!)
Looks to have been homebrewed into an XT clone case.
Bus connectors are 96 way.
Memory card DRAMS are 21256's, so I presume that's 1MB on the board.
CPU card has a Z80B on board plus memory - and a D765 IC, which I think
is an FDC chip IIRC. ROM is labelled "Prof MON 1.3"
Larger chips on the I/O board are a 6845 CTRC, 8255 (PIA IIRC), Mostek
MK3801 (no idea!), Z80A CPU, 6116 SRAM, and a EPROM (with no label).
There's a homebrew card right at the back with nothing much more than a
ROM on it - unfortunately I can't read the handwritten label, but the
first three letters are "tas".
Anyone able to tell me what the machine is or anything about it?
cheers,
Jules
9 Jul
9 Jul
10:15 a.m.
New subject: Conitec system available (Was: Re: what the heck!? (bodged eurocard system))
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
10:30 a.m.
New subject: Conitec system available (Was: Re: what the heck!? (bodged eurocard system))
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
10:43 a.m.
New subject: Conitec system available (Was: Re: what the heck!? (bodged eurocard system))
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
10:56 a.m.
New subject: Conitec system available (Was: Re: what the heck!? (bodged eurocard system))
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 22:15, 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.
Hmm, I've possibly found some floppies for it too. I've got 40 or so
5.25" disks in a disk box found in the same room, some of which are
labelled in French, and which also mention CP/M in places. It's
reasonably likely that they're for this machine.
cheers,
Jules
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