MPX-16 census - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Oct 2005

dont have one, but want one. I hope youll make disk
images available.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
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  Does anybody else on the list have an MPX-16 system?
 I recently
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  acquired one from a list member and am wondering how
many of these
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  systems still exist.  I have a large (relatively)
collection of
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  diskettes with mine.

 The MPX-16, for those not familiar with it, was published as a project
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  in Steve Ciarcia's 'Circuit Cellar' column
in Byte magazine.  It was a
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  three part 'construction' article and the
machine was sold by MicroMint
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  for a time.  What I've heard is that about 500
machines in total were
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  produced.

 It's an early 'IBM Compatible' in that they designed it to be similar
to
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  the PC, but only to a certain degree.  It uses a
serial console rather
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  than keyboard/display adapter, and it runs CP/M-86
and supposedly MS-DOS
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  though I don't have DOS diskettes for mine.  It
has ISA slots and a
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  similar architecture to the IBM-PC, coming out of
that early era before
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  there were PC clones from the likes of Compaq.

 I'm curious of how many other MPX-16 systems have survived to today. 
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  There isn't a lot about it online.  I can share
what information I have,
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  as I have manuals and docs with my system.  I'm
interested in hearing
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  from other people with this machine.

 Scott 

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