19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
1:05 a.m.
Can anybody ID the gui in the "Microbee -??The Evolutionary Computers" video [1]
@ the 7:20 and 8:44 mark?
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0fM5DJ4Dw
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19 Feb
19 Feb
2:26 a.m.
On 19/02/2013, at 5:05 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Can anybody ID the gui in the "Microbee - The
Evolutionary Computers" video [1] @ the 7:20 and 8:44 mark?
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0fM5DJ4Dw
According to http://www.sleeper.apana.org.au/microbee/ it was some sort of Unix clone.
Interesting video though - I had an original MicroBee which I built from a kit but swapped
it about 10 years ago for an Epson PX-8.
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11:32 a.m.
On 19 February 2013 06:05, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Can anybody ID the gui in the "Microbee - The
Evolutionary Computers" video [1] @ the 7:20 and 8:44 mark?
Interesting. Not sure which model of Microbee the video is talking
about, but then, I don't know anything much about Microbees.
It resembles GEM, and the older Microbees ran CP/M on a Z80 - could it
have been a custom demo put together with GSX+ for the video? That
might explain the family resemblance, possibly?
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In article <CAMTenCEdFrNQVfOXW+OrNWP2VPnXG8dpZM=TRfjij0r-5CUu5g at mail.gmail.com>,
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> writes:
It resembles GEM, and the older Microbees ran CP/M on
a Z80 - could it
have been a custom demo put together with GSX+ for the video? That
might explain the family resemblance, possibly?
I was going to suggest GEM as well.
The other thing to keep in mind is that lots of people homebrewed
their own GUI system at this time.
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1:20 p.m.
On 20/02/13 03:02, Liam Proven wrote:
Interesting. Not sure which model of Microbee the
video is talking
about, but then, I don't know anything much about Microbees.
The video mentioned the machine is a Microbee Gamma. A quick Google
search comes up with this:
http://www.thepcmuseum.com/appliedtechnology/Gamma/
Seems it's a 68000 based UNIX workstation which never went into production.
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