Conitec system available (Was: Re: what the heck!? (bodged eurocard system))

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jul 9 17:15:54 2004

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:41, Bernd Kopriva wrote:
> Hi Jules,
> it looks like you found a nice Z80 CP/M system ...
> ... the CPU card is probably a PROF80, and the I/O board is a GRIP 1 terminal
> card. Both of them had been distributed by conitec, germany.

For starters, this machine's available for pickup, now with manuals :)

Bernd, you were exactly right. I'd spotted that the parallel port of the
machine was hand-labelled in both French and English, and recalled
seeing a stack of papers in French in the same room that the machine had
been stored.

On a hunch I went back and grabbed them, figuring the machine and the
papers may have once belonged to the same person. Most of them were junk
- game cheats and the like. However I struck gold - finding buried
within them the GRIP manual, PROF-80 manual, various CP/M text, and the
manual for the keyboard which came with the machine.

Realistically, the museum has too many CP/M machines already. I
certainly don't have the space to hang onto it nor the time to do
anything with it (I've got my Research Machines if I want to play with
CP/M anyway).

Anyone want to come and get it? Only possible catch with it being in the
UK is that, as Bernd says, it's a German machine - so the manuals are
all in German too. Maybe someone wants to move it back to Germany? :-)

Somebody give it a home!

cheers,

Jules
Received on Fri Jul 09 2004 - 17:15:54 BST