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The Olivetti P6060 was the first personal computer with integrated floppy drives (8"). Its CPU is TTL based, the system had max 16 kB RAM with max 64 kB ROM and a 32 character alphanumerical display. The P6060 came to market in April 1975.
VCFe 24.0 exhibition No 39.
The exhibition was provided by the Museo del Computer, northern Italy: www.museodelcomputer.org
Data General Eclipse MV7800XP, first system startup and some repair.
Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org
Based on a Z80 CPU, the BOSS was introduced by Olympia in Germany in 1980. It was mostly used in office environments, running either on CP/M or PROLOGUE operating system.
The system came dead without any schematics and required redraw schematics as well as disassembling the boot ROM in order to bring it back to live.
VCFe 24.0 Exhibition No 11.
Event Title:Retro Computing
Speaker:Plymouth University/BCS South West
Event Date:21 November 2011, 19:00
Event Location:Sherwell Conference Centre, Plymouth University
In 1978, Commodore introduced a chess computer based on the MOS KIM-1, built around a MOS 6502 CPU.
VCFe 24.0 exhibition No 3.
The exhibition was provided by Technikmuseum Matthias Schmitt (TECMUMAS): tecmumas.de
Event Title:Retro Computing
Speaker:Plymouth University/BCS South West
Event Date:21 November 2011, 19:00
Event Location:Sherwell Conference Centre, Plymouth University
Internet POPs in late 1990ies and early 2000 usually had to terminate lots of analog phone lines, which modems used to connect to the provider. This exhibition showed different equipment by Cisco and Agfeo and tried to bring up the entire system.
Data General Eclipse MV7800XP, first system startup and some repair.
Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org
Frank Eggen developed a RAM extension for Commodore 1541 and 1571 floppy disks, which significantly speeds up data transfer to and from the floppy drive. Project description, schematics, gerber files etc.: github.com/FraEgg/commodore-1541-floppydrive-8x-multi-flo...
VCFe 24.0 exhibition No 40.
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Event Title:Retro Computing
Speaker:Plymouth University/BCS South West
Event Date:21 November 2011, 19:00
Event Location:Sherwell Conference Centre, Plymouth University
Event Title:Retro Computing
Speaker:Plymouth University/BCS South West
Event Date:21 November 2011, 19:00
Event Location:Sherwell Conference Centre, Plymouth University
Inexpensive and thus very popular was the KIM-1 by MOS, built around their 6502 CPU: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
VCFe 24.0 exhibition No 3.
In 1977 the German electronics magazine Elektor published schematics for a DIY computer based on the SC/MP CPU by National Semiconductor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Semiconductor_SC/MP
VCFe 24.0 exhibition No 18.
Data General Eclipse MV7800XP, first system startup and some repair.
Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org
Data General Eclipse MV7800XP, first system startup and some repair.
Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.org