05-11-2022, 11:27 PM
Well, although I am not a past MicroBee user I am interested in the forthcoming 'Retro' build.
The closest I have come to a MicroBee is an Australian designed 'PC', the Time Computers ECS4500, that I used at Telecom in the early 80s. 4MHz Z80, 96K, 2 x 1MB FDD, CPM 2.2.
I did also noodle with a SC/MP Dev Kit which was controlling some test equipment and also an 8085 Dev Kit on a certificate unit at RMIT.
The main bit of fun I had was with a borrowed Exidy Sorcerer which I used as the basis of a car club sprint timing system which included some external h/w via the S100 bus and some custom coding (all machine code). It's all a bit of a blur from some 40 years ago but I recall the ease with which it worked from a h/w perspective and also the coding with the well documented BIOS. Great machine.
I have recently built up a Retro 2650 kit from Post Increment and playing with a bit of simple coding on this. A friend had built the original EA kit back in the day and I played on the follow on Central Data kit that he later acquired.
Cheers
The closest I have come to a MicroBee is an Australian designed 'PC', the Time Computers ECS4500, that I used at Telecom in the early 80s. 4MHz Z80, 96K, 2 x 1MB FDD, CPM 2.2.
I did also noodle with a SC/MP Dev Kit which was controlling some test equipment and also an 8085 Dev Kit on a certificate unit at RMIT.
The main bit of fun I had was with a borrowed Exidy Sorcerer which I used as the basis of a car club sprint timing system which included some external h/w via the S100 bus and some custom coding (all machine code). It's all a bit of a blur from some 40 years ago but I recall the ease with which it worked from a h/w perspective and also the coding with the well documented BIOS. Great machine.
I have recently built up a Retro 2650 kit from Post Increment and playing with a bit of simple coding on this. A friend had built the original EA kit back in the day and I played on the follow on Central Data kit that he later acquired.
Cheers
