Help identifying Mostek machine

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Fri Jun 27 08:29:00 2003

It sounds like a bigger brother to this MDX-CPU2:

<http://ubanproductions.com/mostek.html>http://ubanproductions.com/mostek.html

https://gatekeeper.evocative.com/VCA/view.cfm?ad=16

--tom


At 07:58 PM 6/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello all,
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>I've come into possession of a Mostek computer (I'm pretty sure it's a
>computer anyway) with a pair of 8" half height floppy drives (Shugart
>860s) and three cards.
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>The cards are roughly 6x4 inches with a 56 finger edge connector on one
>of the long ends and various connectors on the opposite end (I'm not
>familiar with these). They are labeled MDX-FLP2 (plugged into the
>drives - obviously a floppy controller), MDX-SIO (almost certainly a
>serial IO card) and MDX-CPU3. The last card is the processor card. The
>main chip appears to be a MOSTEK Z-80 clone which is labeled MK3801N-4,
>Z80-STI AND ENG. PROTO. There are 8 4564s for 64K RAM on the card along
>with what are either connectors for serial and/or parallel ports.
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>The whole box is about the size of a typical rack-mount machine with a
>plastic case around it. Most parts are tagged as Mostek and most date
>codes are from the middle of 1982.
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>Of course it came without software or documentation.
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>Is anyone familiar with this machine? Does anyone have a boot disk,
>other software or documentation for it?
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>Thanks!
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> Erik Klein
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Received on Fri Jun 27 2003 - 08:29:00 BST

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