ASCI micro68 system

[Joe R.]

Carlos,

   I can't tell you much about them but I've seen the ASCI systems. I went
to an auction at Brevard Community College several years ago and they had a
pile of them. However they also had a pile of HP 5036 trainers so I spent
all my money buying them instead :-) I do remember that there were several
different untis for the ASCI systems but I don't remember what the non-CPU
units did. The guy that bought them turned around and sold all of them on
E-bay shortly afterwards. I've also seen others on  E-bay. I expect that if
you set up a favorite search routine there and have it notify you when new
ones are posted you'll find one sooner or later.

     Joe


At 10:16 AM 4/11/05 -0400, you wrote:
>I think that I've asked about this system before. It seems
>to be a 6800 training system with hex keypad and 4 digit display,
>rs-232 and perhaps a cassette interface.  It is labeled
>"ASCI u68" (the "u" is a greek mu) and "SYSYEM X".
>Apparently, it might have been known also as "micro mule II",
>according to a vey old sale ad that I found. It is nicely
>built on a black metallic chassis with wooden sides and a
>flip-over acrylic top.
>
>The serial interface seems to adjust to the terminal's baud
>but insists on using 7bit, odd parity.  I've been able to
>examine and change the memory's contents using the hex keypad.
>
>There's a flap for a card edge connector that remains free;
>I guess it is probably for the cassette (I haven't yet traced
>the thing).
>
>Unfortunately, my web searches have yielded lots of info about
>ASCI supercomputers, misspellings of ASCII and in one
>occasion  a misspelling of micromole by some chemist,
>but nothing useful about this system. There seems to be one in 
>the Topeka Computing Museum collection
>
>http://www.gateman.com/museum/t3.html
>
>So, does anybody have info about this system?
>
>Carlos.
>
>
>-- 
>Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez    email: carlos_murillo at skipthispartieee.org
>Dean of Engineering, Universidad Autonoma de Manizales, Manizales, Colombia
>----
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>