IMSAI Replica

Posted by musovern on Apr 13th, 2018 in IMSAI Replica, S100 | 1 comment

The Replica was based around the front panel board designed and produced by Don Caprio. The S100 8080A Cpu board was designed by Josh Bensadon of Toronto Canada. It is connected to a S-100 Bus Console IO Board to provide VGA output. This board was designed by John Monahan of the “S100Computers.com” website.

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Sharp MZ-700

Posted by musovern on Apr 13th, 2018 in Sharp, Vintage Computers | 0 comments

The MZ-700 was launched in Japan in October 1982. lt was the first Sharp home Computer with colour, but it came without a built-in display unit; instead, sockets were provided for a colour TV or an RGB Monitor; or a B/W TV set or a Mono Monitor. lt also had a built-in printer I/F with a switch which allowed you to run the MZ-1P01 4-pen plotter-printer or a more standard MZ-80P5( K ) dot-matrix printer.

Thus, with its clock speed of 3.5MHz, the MZ-700 seemed to meet many of the criticisms levelled at the MZ-80A when it was launched in June 1982. But it was still only a halfway-house – the printer I/F only suited Sharp printers, the screen was only 40 columns, and to run disk drives you needed an extra interface of some kind.

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Olivetti M24

Posted by musovern on Apr 13th, 2018 in Olivetti, Vintage Computers | 0 comments

The Olivetti M24 is a computer that was sold by Olivetti in 1983 using the Intel 8086 CPU. The system was sold in the United States under its original name by Docutel/Olivetti of Dallas. AT&T and Xerox bought rights to rebadge the system as the AT&T PC 6300 and the Xerox 6060 series, respectively

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