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

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Jul 9 17:43:10 2004

Aren't Pete's bits heading to Germany soon? :-)

Well, at least if someone happens to be able to transport them! Maybe
the Conitec system could be taken at the same time? (it's the size of a
PC XT case - which in fact is exactly what it's housed in)

cheers,

Jules

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 22:30, Bernd Kopriva wrote:
> Hi Jules,
> i would be happy to take that little beauty ...
> ... unfortunately, i don't come to the UK the next days, weeks, months (maybe years), and shipping
> will be too expensive :-(
> Or is anyone out there, who is incidentally :-) on a trip from the UK to germany and could bring it over
> here (maybe near Stuttgart ...) ?
>
> Bernd
>
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:15:54 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> >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 - 17:43:10 BST