"Single instance" machines

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Sat Jan 2 10:27:04 1999

At 12:45 AM 1/2/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>On 31 Dec 98 at 17:41, Kees Stravers wrote:


        If anyone turns up schematics on the Micom, especially the terminal, I
would like to obtain a copy and I will try to get mine operational.

                                                        Thanks

                                                        Charlie Fox
>>
> The Micom seems like an amalgum of most of the above. It looked like an
>oversized Pet or TRS80 mod.2. At the moment it's buried with brochures ,
club
>newsletters and programs under about 5 printers and other assorted items.
I've
>always thought of it as an S-100 but I am a complete novice regarding them.
>I'll be digging it out in the next couple of weeks and will have more info.
> It used a large Shugart 8" fdd about the size of an XT and had a Qume
>daisy-wheel printer that had a massive external power supply. I don't
think it
>had any internal smarts. It had an excellent WP program and limited graphics
>capabilities. It was modem capable and Philips had a program for that. I
>remember the newsletter mentioning that 3rd party suppliers could provide
>modems (and I imagine cards) so I would suspect it had a common bus. They
>also had a fairly lengy article on the differences between synchronous and
>asynchronous transmission IIRC.
>I'll get back to you when I excavate it.
>
>ciao larry
>lwalker_at_interlog.com
>
>


                                Charles E. Fox
                       Chas E. Fox Video Productions
                793 Argyle Rd. Windsor N8Y 3J8 Ont. Canada
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