Old Alpha's (OT)

From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson_at_softwright.co.uk>
Date: Wed Jun 17 09:43:48 1998

>> There have been several extension to the Alphatronic PC.
>> floppy boxes and even a HD box. THe base for CP/M was
>> the dual floppy box.

I'm amazed - someone who's heard of these things! :)

>>> They were made by Triumph-Adler, from what I remember. Any information
>>> on these boxes would be most helpful!! (I have the original manuals, but
>>> they don't exactly go into a lot of detail)
>>
>> Just Tell me whats missing - I think I maybe have some of the
>> stuff. Including Flopyy and Hard Disk drives.

Well all I have are the basic Alphatronic PC units (three of these I
think, although I seem to remember that the keyboard status on two of
them is far from perfect - these things used to be really abused when
used as terminals), one original shipping carton, two manuals, and
that's it.

Oh, did these things come with monitors at all? Most of the ones we had
at university had 12" mono screens hooked up to them, but I don't know
if they were original or not (I have a couple of these - similar shape
to DEC VT320 terminals).

The manuals I have (IIRC) both mention that the systems can be expanded
to run CP/M, but no mention of how or what was needed; there's no
pin-outs of the expansion port, cartridge slots or anything.
>
>> Owning a Alphatronic PC and 2 Alphatronics

hmm, so what's the difference between the two? Mine are all badged
"Alphatronic PC", but I checked with the university staff before I left
and they never had any floppy / hard drive systems with them...

(This is where I really hate not having my collection around at home,
it's been so long since I've powered one of these things up I can't even
remember what CPU they had. I vaguely recall that they had a lot of
fairly non-standard chips inside though; the CPU may have been a
rebadged part of some description)

cheers

Jules

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Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 09:43:48 BST