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My 8032 had visicalc on a rom chip

Do something about the focus.

I used to cut out a 2nd write protect notch on my disks to use the other side of the disk in my 8050. About a MB of storage if you use both sides. Not bad for 1980. I've not seen a Micropolis 8050 survivor before. I think they're pretty rare. The Tandon drives seemed to be more reliable. I still have mine and it's a Tandon. I had (and still have) a working "2001 Series Professional Computer" (or 3032 in the vernacular) Thanks for the blast from the past. I tell some of the young ones I work about these old machines and they look at me with a mixture of awe (if they're true nerds) or like I'm describing how a Conestoga wagon functioned if they're not. The 40xx PETs came out I think in 1981 or 1982.

Very cool Doug!! I would have been amazed (and still am) to see this in 1978 when I had my VIP. I still have a VIP but rebuild it on my own redesign called Voyager using Bobs COSMAC Elf 2000 as its engine. I will try this soon, thank you for the link to Octo.

I saw the Pet in 1984. My typing class teacher wanted to introduce us to Word Processors. Or was that '83? I dunno.

And then it was stolen by Bill Gates.

That is such a cool setup. 👍

The black machine is actually an Advanced/36 Model 436 which has a PPC AS processor and two gate arrays implementing enhanced System/36 architecture. It is possible to run OS/400 and SSP concurrently, with up to three instances of SSP with one emulated on the PPC AS frontend processor.

I was in brief contact with the author of Kermit 80, Bill Catchings, Frank da Cruz who was responsible for the Kermit effort following my production of this look back. Bill was kind to respond to my requests and pleasantly surprised that we went back and looked at his great work. Frank was generous with his time tuning me in on nuances of the history. Definitely check out the links, I have lots more info in my bitoutofplace site and Frank has everything Kermit at his.

The Superbrain QD was one of the first computers I used. It was in the beginning of the 80:ies. I still think it is one of the most beautiful microcomputers ever built. Nice to see it again.

could be a bigger platform, and you could launch one into space, too! nice! RIP to all our STTOS players passed.

Great stuff!! Thanks for doing the walkthrough

Lots of neat exhibits, thanks for sharing. Learned to program RPG and COBOL at technical school on the S/36 and we used Televideo 970s at work to hook to a Unix System V machine so it was neat to see them shove a PC into the case. I never thought about putting a PC emulator card in my IIgs.

Thanks for sharing! I hope to make it next year.

I always like a good VCF walkthrough video. Well done.

he played goirnos theme when he saw my jotaro hat, he's cool

It was nice to see the software but the eprom protection was awesome oldest example I have seen of something like that.

Brings me back to mey high school days. Killer Poke!

I just posted a 'challenge' on Twitter about the best looking microcomputer of the '80s and someone replied Intertec Superbrain, and my search led me here. Just wanted to say thanks for making this content and sharing it with the world. It's one thing to read a Wikipedia entry, or even a blog, but a video like this is a valuable resource to show what these systems were like. Thank you.

Cool! I remember in high school we had a PET Computer along with many C64 Computers (^_-)/

I didn't know that this was cut off at the end... trying to figure out what happened.

What a wonderful piece of history. I had no idea that Kermit was written for the SuperBrain. I had used Kermit back in my University days on PC's. Great to see real work assembling done on an old CP/M computer. Today 14 Nov 2020 I just got my Superbrain working. I have 2 and today I got 1 to boot up. No display however on the 2nd the display worked to I made 1 good working Superbrain from the 2. I did notice that 64KTest.com does fail so although it boots it does look like I have some faulty memory to fix before I can put it to real work like your video.

The first time I saw that model Pet, I was blown away since it looked like a computer should look. However, it’s monochrome screen led me into the arms of Apple. The magic of these old systems is not about what they did. It was all about what they could do! It was such a dramatic entrance into the psyche of Americana! The Pet had the aura of a business system. And I think that was good and bad for commodore. But, the Apple ii plus has a language card. On first glance it sounded so international! But, it just meant it had two versions of BASiC. Surprisingly, Apple Integer BASIC and AppleSoft each had pros and cons. it was not immediately clear that AppleSoft was “better” unless you wanted floating point calculations.

I actually want a PET, but I don't really have any more space for one at the moment. I don't have the money either. From what I've heard, they're hard to find and sell for a lot :(

Its basicaly XCELL from microsoft

The diskdrive has more power than the pet :-) You have two CPU´s running to operate the diskoperation standalone as dualcpu multitasking !!!! If you send an copydirective to the drive , the station runs without the computer and if it finished, it send an call via errorcanel to the PET

im looking for a diskette like this.. can i format from mine 5/14 i have??? sotinikol73@gmail.com

Can you use a Vic 1540 and 1541 and 1571 with a CBM 8032? I'm thinking yes, because they all use the original PET serial interface. I have all of those, plus a Vic, 2x C64, a C128 and C128D... and have never turned any of them on except the PET. I did use those honking big dual PET drives though back in college. Used them all in the 1980s, but haven't used any since... these I got all in one big dump. Oddly, I programmed a Spreadsheet like program for the Dean from total scratch starting on a PET, but I moved the whole project into compiled Quickbasic on an IBM AT that compiled at an insane 12mghz... a lot faster than the PET. This was in 1986/87. I thought I still had the source code/compiled binary on my webserver in my code archive but don't see it there.

I learnt on exactly these machines. Great fun.

Hi there great looking machine, I've just picked up one of these. Would you be willing to share the code and diagram to get the leds working. I would like to test everything is working ok on my board. I've run the code in the manual and that works fine. When i fist startup my machine the LEDs 9 and 10 stay on.?

Pretty powerful for the time considering just over a decade ago only major institutions had that kind of power.

Tripods are your friend, auto focus is your ememy

Nice!! I have two of these!

You should probably invest in a new camera, for this one has a perfectly frightful framerate. That aside, an informative video.

I saw one of these on eBay recently and it was selling for about $600 - Jesus H Christ!

visi calc is similar to microsoft xcell

Sweet !

Hi - thanks for uploading these videos, I have an Intertec Superbrain QD, non functional since I got it 10 years ago. Until I manage to fix it, watching these vids is the next best thing! Could you make some more videos about this machine? Maybe go into any specifics about the motherboard, video board, power/comms board etc? There is very little on youtube about the Superbrain, anything you can add would be welcomed by myself and many vcfed forum users. Thanks!

Oh the pain! I have an Intertec Superbrain, non functional! I had 5 of the things as a 14 year old which was over 25 years ago! If I can get mine working again I will just sit there for ages with Kermit, transferring files, listening to that hypnotic, relaxing disk access sound!

Nice one Doug, just read your blog about the Kermit demo. Well done.

So cool. I wish I had access to one now and then. But too expensive and takes way too much space to fit into my living quarters. Thumbs up for testing software on it. I would welcome you testing other software and games for it.

This machine iwas not from Europe. This machine set belonged to a C= executive from West Chester, PA. He bought it, left the company with it, and put it in his closet. and approximately 30 years later I bought it from him, in the original boxes with his name and address on them. So no, it was not from overseas and that is NOT why it has CBM on it.

I like nostalgia but come on you posted this in 2015. Why use a 1990 camera operated by a parkinsons patient?

Needs more camera shake.

@2:08 "reseated the chips..." oh man the flashbacks

Excellent

d-i and Shift-R is the short form of directory. Shift + RUN/STOP will load and run the first program on disk (for Basic 4.0 machines) VISICALC is a copy protected program. The copy protection is a ROM chip that you have to install on the motherboard. This has all identifying marks removed. Do not lose this as it contains part of the Visicalc program. Stephen G7VFY 07956544202

8250 was the double sided version of the 8050. There were two hard drives, 9050? and 9090. Very unreliable.