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23/3/2010

Hi to all,

I am currently developing a z80 computer which i hope (when finished) to be a Newbrain AD.

Some features i would like to have:

It will not have a TV Signal or Monitor port but a VGA or some other interface to an LCD screen.
It will support a PS/2 keyboard.
It will support some kind of storage device (IDE, FLASH , etc) (NO TAPES OR FLOPIES)
It will support a 16x2 LCD Text display (instead of the green one on AD)
It will support an RS-232 interface

It will run most of the Newbrain's AD software.

The final project will be portable using a LI-ION battery, so it will be like a laptop.

Read full article to view current status...

Chris

P.S. 

I have made a new category at the Forum to talk about this.

More pictures at the Gallery 

 21/2/2010

 New Books

Thanks to Michael Fog for his contribution

The Dutch Newbrain User Group is making a Robot based on The Newbrain.

Check Gallery for a couple of Photos from the project.

NEW *** Also Check the Links section for Videos.

The Central Planning of Angolan Ministry of Commerce in Angola between the years 1981 to 1984 used a NewBrain Computer.It was strange that a small NewBrain with two cheap cassettes and one MX100 EPSON printer managed to recalculate all of the central plans of the Ministry of Commerce in less than 4 hours, while one IBM 370 mainframe computer costing millions could not perform the same operation in  less than 2 months, as things like "re-programming", "punching cards", "lots of energy", "High class analysts and engineers" were necessary.