ReadMe

This is the grand total of information I have on my Colex850 system

jos.dreesen#greenmail.ch  2019





Colex system came in several variants, all identical on the outside :
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Colex 820  : basic 2-floppy CP/M system
Colex 850  : floppy/10MB MFM HD CP/M system
Colex 850  : floppy/10MB MFM HD CP/M system for a multi-user environment
Colex 3240 : UNIX (  CP/M-68K
Colex 3250 :  MC68K based system with 10MB MFM HD and (UniSoft?) UNIX
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My system is a Colex 850 running CP/M 3

The system ROMS are saved in bits/ROMS and identified below.
The contents of the 10 MB MFM HD is saved in bits/Colex_10MB_hd_cpm3.bin
This is a straight binary dump of disk, as generated with David Gesswein's MFM-reader.



======= STD-BUS cards used in my Colex-850 system ===========
Colex STD-256DRAM ( 128K fitted )
Colex STD-SASI1   ( connected to a Xebec S1410, itself bolted onto a Teac SD-412 MFM disk drive)
Colex STD-CPUE    ( Z80 CPU card )
         U1 2732      7105202 V2.1
         U6 TBP28L22  7205201 V1.0
Colex STD-FLP2    ( connected to a Teac FD-55F-03-U)
Colex STD-PSIO    (
IMO  STD-RTC     ( card with Z80-CTC and MM58167AN ) 
     MAPRTC : TPB28L22
     PSMRTC : PAL12L6JC
     IOMRTC : MMI 6301-1J

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-extra cards, not used in my system :

Colex STD-256DRAM ( 256K fitted )
Colex STD-WORDS   ( Speech synthesizer using the SC01-A )
Colex STD-68000   ( 68K CPU card )
     U20  2732 7100201 V3.0 unix
     U3   MMI6381-2 7200101 V2.0
     U4   MMI6381-2 7200102 V2.0
Spare IMO  STD-RTC   card
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