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	MicroBee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MicroBee (Micro Bee) was a series of home computers by Applied Technology, later known as MicroBee Systems.
		Original MicroBees ran at a clock speed of 2MHz, with a video dot clock of 12MHz, which was sufficient to display 64x16 characters (512x256 pixels) on a modified television or composite monitor.
		MicroBee Systems also designed a PC clone, called the "Matilda", or 640TC, which ran an NEC V20 chip, and emulated the MicroBee CP/M systems in software.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MicroBee (681 words)

	Databases - Back to the Future
		As an example, the first mainframe system I worked on - one of the largest in the country at the time - had a master file spread over forty magnetic tapes (eight reels in each of five capital cities), each with a capacity of 20 MB of data.
		While the DBMS systems were advancing to attract new followers from the PC user community, the vendors were also looking upward and outward to the world of open systems.
		Given Australia's large geographic spread, an example of such a situation could be a GUI front end client PC requesting an application function from a capital city application server, which in turn, as a client, requests a database function from a database server.
	www.melbpc.org.au /pcupdate/9407/9407article10.htm (7010 words)

	Secret of project Granny Smith - Fairfax Business Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Microbee grew from DIY kits and was soon adopted by schools across the nation and as far away as Scandinavia, Asia and Russia.
		The first 1000 Microbees were sold as kits with a $100 service and support option but many customers bought the kit and left $100 to have it built.
		Microbee Systems imported and badged some Taiwanese IBM clones but the company was running out of cash and later went into receivership.
	businessnetwork.smh.com.au /articles/2005/07/14/2638.html (1006 words)

	Peter Collins
		This specification of User Requirements for an Executive Information Systems (EIS) was carried out as a 50 consultant day Information Engineering Workbench assignment.The EIS was required to provide directors with Performance Indicators extracted from various corporate computer systems and other services and measured or displayed against their contracted Critical Success Factor (CSF) values.
		The systems provided for the secure recording of medical records for the whole population, and provided integrated patient and staff scheduling, stores, payroll, accounting and cost control as well as a range of diagnostic and scientific applications.
		The resulting system, applied to a fleet of 500 buses, was able to save several million dollars for each 1% improvement in the timetables and schedules.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/pcollins/Resfull.html (4072 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Microbee was released as a kit in 1982 on the cover of Your Computer magazine, the manual was included free with the magazine.
		The Microbee 32 was followed by Microbee 56, 64 and 128 models.
		There were also two really keen prototype systems, the Gamma and the Delta, which were intended to compete with the Amigas, but problems within the company led to their cancellation not long before the company's collapse.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=287 (366 words)

	WELCOME TO OUR WEB SITE
		The methodology was fairly simple, we designed an accounting system from scratch using one of the original versions of Microsoft Basic.
		The software had limited appeal, but generally it was sufficient for the directors to continue developing it to a full accounting system when MSDOS came into being.
		The Microbee Corporation went into liquidation when the technology changed, so a new product was designed using the Microsoft Quick Basic facilities, which also included a Basic Compiler.
	www.bookmate.com.au /link1.htm (522 words)

	The Microbee Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These early Microbees had A Zilog Z80 processor at 2 megahertz, either 16 or 32 kilobytes of battery backed static RAM (6116), and provision for up to 32k of ROM (a Z80 can address 64k).
		The Microbee Gamma was to have been the start of a whole new line of high performance computers form Microbee.
		The Amiga is not a Microbee but like the Microbee, it did not have IBM written on it and as a result had a hard time in the marketplace.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~mikeleys/microbee.html (1652 words)

	Thomas Scherrer Z80 Computer Systems
		If there are popular computer systems based on Z80 family, you know of or you would like to point to, please tell me. Please also inform me about updates, broken or missing links, etc.
		In Australia there was a Z80A computer manufactured called the Microbee.
		Sega Master System, the documents it's based on a zilog Z80 cpu running at 3.xx mhz.
	www.eilm.net /doc/z80/z80.info/z80cs.htm (336 words)

	comp.os.cpm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - allanswers.org
		You will discover that these systems may not be amenable to using IBM PC stuff, that they may need 8-inch floppy drives, that these systems may not support hard drives.
		Weigh the system, its floppy drives and its documents and disks (separately if they are heavy); decide if you want to ship or just want local pickup.
		Most likely, unless your system is very special, you are competing with people who will give away similar systems to a good home.
	www.allanswers.org /os/CPM-faq.htm (3673 words)

	Kermit News Number 5, June 1993
		The system presupposed a central distribution point in the Theatre of Operations and the despatch of items for the relief operation to the forward areas in the former Yugoslavia from single points of departure in the Base or Forward Depots in the United Kingdom and Germany.
		The heart of the system is a relational database, situated at the Directorate of Logistic Information Systems, in the county of Oxfordshire, that draws information from the Stores System mainframe, and data from the VITAL input devices.
		The system tracks the progress of commodities, as single items or as part of larger consignments, along the pipeline, by air, road, rail, or sea routes, and may also be applied to postal despatch of items.
	www.columbia.edu /kermit/newsn5.html (13627 words)

	Nick Martin Executive Focus
		Nexar provides an end-to-end system for FPGA design, including a full range of vendor-neutral IP, support for embedded software development, a hardware prototyping and debug system with plug-in modules for devices from Xilinx, Altera, and Actel, and smooth integration with printed circuit board design.
		Nexar uses a board design approach to system design with FPGAs, allowing designers to stitch together high-level IP building blocks in a schematic environment as an alternative to HDL-based design entry.
		With the cost of ASIC-based systems skyrocketing and programmable platforms such as FPGAs on the rise, Nick's team felt the time was right to re-define the company, incorporating robust support for FPGA-based design in their tools.
	www.fpgajournal.com /articles_2005/20050201_martin.htm (1667 words)

	Docs.Rage.Net: /faq/CPM-faq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Of the small number which can actually run without causing system errors under the later versions of DOS, apparently none is capable of running real CP/M. Instead they use an emulated version of CP/M which is only as accurate as the developers have bothered to make it.
		A notible system of the era was the Heath\Zenith Z-100, a dual processor 8085/8088 system that could run CP/M 80, CP/M 86 and MS-DOS: and very similar to the popular Compupro 8\16 system.
		New IEEE-696 systems were subsequently developed through the end of the 1980's, primarily for industrial and/or development (non-CP/M) applications, particularly where multiprocessing or speed were important.
	docs.rage.net /faq/CPM-faq (9370 words)

	[No title]
		In addition to providing the first full color, real-time video feed from geostationary orbit, a byproduct of this joint endeavor will result in Australia's fastest supercomputer, which is sure to lead to Australian geeks arguing about Apple and IBM in laid back accents.
		With a system taking an image every second, you just need to wait a few seconds or minutes for the clouds to move out of the way.
		If you are a LEO system coming over that point on the ground once a day or so, if there are clouds in the way then you need to wait a day (or more) for another chance to take the image.
	arstechnica.com /journals/apple.ars/2006/5/9/3900 (2438 words)

	Classic DOS Games - John Passfield Interview
		I'm one of Australia's pioneer computer game developers having had my first game published when I was sixteen going on seventeen years old.
		I grew up in a small country town in Australia and it was here that I fell in love with computers and I discovered my first computer game at a local show during the early eighties.
		In the Microbee version Harry was a Ghost Hunter who was charged with ridding the city of all forms supernatural evil.
	www.classicdosgames.com /interviews/johnpassfield.html (2177 words)

	David Dawes
		I am a graduate of The University of Sydney and received the University Medal in Physics.
		So now I am self-employed with a company which appropriately got called X-Oz Technologies as a pun on the X Windows System and my homeland, Australia, or as we call it Oz; a name that my best mate, Dr. C, yes another physicist, dreamt up.
		Right now most of my work here is getting it on as many operating system platforms as XFree86 supports.
	www.xfree86.org /~dawes (1041 words)

	Comprehensive Computer Catalogue - Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After a bitter court case in the 80's, Atanasoff was proclaimed the inventor of the computer overturning a case brought by Sperry Univac defending the computer patents of Eckert and Mauchly.
		Was acquired by Dynatech, Inc, Burlington, MA and was renamed DCS (Dynatech Computer Systems) continuing to produce S100 based systems into the early 90's before they were shut down.
		In 1980, SEL was acquired by Gould Electronics, Inc and became Gould Computer System Division which in turn was purchased in 1989 by Encore Corporation.
	www.citem.org /CCC/ccorgs.htm (2034 words)

	VZ ALiVE "My Stories"
		At high school we had Microbees (didn't everyone?) and when I did the computer subject in Year 11 there were a few of us who knew more than the teacher.
		The 'competitors' were companies who had to take a lot more money for their software, so my program was the first choice for everybody who wanted to give the system a first try.
		I soon learnt Apple Basic and Microbee Basic and enough Sorcerer commands to be able to load one of my favourite games, a text adventure called "Orb of the Halucidon".
	vzalive.bangrocks.com /mystories (3205 words)

	About Mountain Man Graphics, Australia
		My belief systems are very primitive and simple and attempt as much as possible to mirror the natural systems that I perceive to be in place about us, and within us.
		My sojourn through and in the Himalayan foothills, and across many of the mountain ranges in Europe and the British Isles, in my early years provided me with a perspective for which I am eternally grateful.
		Return to Australia and commence employment as a public service clerk with the Dept. Social Security (DSS) - which was to last over 10 years.
	www.mountainman.com.au /about.html (1024 words)

	AZ Tech Consulting Staff
		These systems were designed to provide a simple external user interface to Telstra that was updated automatically by Alcatel staff following their existing Document release and Defect tracking procedures.
		Developed a system converting raw SGML into an on-line viewable format, similar to Windows Help, for use with HP OpenVue.
		Development and maintenance of a complete, web based document management system for storage and retrieval of viewable documents, and archival of source information.
	www.aztech.com.au /staff.html (1100 words)

	Andy's Resume
		Built web software to gather and report statistics on the usage of a particular software package used by students enrolled in a University Course.
		Liase with tutors and lecturer, developing appropriate web reporting systems to support ARC funded University Research.
		B.A. (Hons), The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Graduated 1985)
	www.atug.com /andypatterns/andy.htm (433 words)

	Reader responses to the Top 10 PCs column
		The operating system (especially with a GUI) is important, but the hardware was more important in the beginning.
		Wolfram ran a sort of benchmark on a top-of-the-line dual proc Xeon system and the same test on the new (at the time) dual 2 GHz PPC 970.
		That system was doing multimedia before the term was even being used.
	www.chron.com /disp/story.mpl/side2/2262588.html (10001 words)

	comp.os.cpm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
		The new 80486, 80386 and 80286 machines with the fast hard drives and the snazzy OS/2 operating systems are such a delight...
		Parag Patel provides a z80 and CP/M emulator at: ftp://ftp.cgt.com/pub/z80/z80.tgz This archive includes complete sources and has been ported to a number of Unix systems as well as DOS and the Mac.
		Zenith's Z-100 system is supported by some active user groups and on-line maillists such as Usenet's comp.sys.zenith.z100.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/CPM-faq (9954 words)

	[No title]
		These systems may use a Link Service Access Point (LSAP) field in much the same way the MILNET uses the "link" field.
		These systems use a message "type" field in much the same way the ARPANET uses the "link" field.
		A system name may be up to 40 characters taken from the set of upper- case letters, digits, and the three punctuation characters hyphen, period, and slash.
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc1340.txt (3576 words)

	Is Retro Gaming bigger in Europe than in the US? - AtariAge Forums
		If I was in charge of producing such a US retro mag, I would make it a limited series, like four of five issues, and if there is a genuine level of public interest, I would add a few extra issues to this series.
		The retro scene in Australia is interesting, pretty much everyone had a console and computer in their house (we are a nation of early adopters) and yet not much is available second hand.
		There are active user groups for a lot of the 8 bit computers in Oz and we were spoilt for choice as we had the whole range of UK and USA products, plus some interesting domestic units (Microbee and Dick Smith computers) and Australia and Japan only released units (Sega SC-3000).
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=91114 (2560 words)

	[No title]
		For those not familiar with the guts of Kermit protocol, I'd like to remark that this command is essentially a slight modification of the MAIL command (you can see traces of that history on the screen when you issue the command), and support exists for the mainframe ends of both in release 4.2.0 of Kermit-370.
		Kermit programs for simple file systems need no changes, and can still act as repositories for labeled files, to be sent back later to the system of origin.
		The labels and the format and layout of the associated values for each system type should be clearly defined and documented.
	ftp.wayne.edu /kermit/e/mail.90b (19868 words)

	Emulation Camp - Archived News from January 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The reason why I just say console games is because the computer systems wouldn't work too well since the cameras have no keyboards.
		There's also a little "surprise" to be revealed soon, because we have added _complete_ screenshots and facts for another gaming system.
		This version is mainly a bug-fix version, however, the author mentions that HGR graphics now work right on Intel systems, and low-level mouse support also works.
	www.emucamp.com /arc01-2000.shtml (9033 words)

	Comp.os.cpm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) FAQ
		In the last year, there have been articles on most of the popular microcontrollers, reviews of a new Z180 system for CP/M, modifications for older systems, software articles and tutorials on Forth, 'C', and assembly language, and the 'Centerfold' schematics for older computer circuits.
		This means boards and systems where you can identify (and get) the parts and get code to make it work.
		The Z System commercial version is available for a nominal fee from Jay Sage.
	non.com /news.answers/CPM-faq.html (8663 words)

	Collectable Records & Music Magazines Auction - SpinAuctions Australia - Computer & Electronics Magazines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		cover: "windows word processors";features incl: comparisions between word 6, wordperfect 6 and amipro 3.01, high speed modems, 10th birthday of the magazine, 10mhz dx4 systems; first looks at: contura aero, cc:mail mobile, pc tools v2.01, apple quicktake 100; reviews: cooee pro 1.1, canvas 3.5 for windows, stacker 4.0
		cover: hi-tech comes home, features incl: satellites over oz, loudspeakers explained, the digital disc arrives (compact disk technology launch in australia), cartridges explained, your computer - now you've bought it...
		cover: expanding your system...; features incl: hard disk management, ms-dos tutorial (concluding series), how to beat 2 floppy disk drive limit, vga graphics; reviews: flexibak plus, 4 dos, pc file 5, timestax, freeway cashbook, latest shareware releases
	spinauctions.ace-aust.com /computer.htm (1367 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Microbee computers were popular in Australia where they equipped many schools.
		But these computers also sold well in Scandinavia or Sweden for example.
		The Microbee 128 and its extended version, the Premium series, were housed in the same case as the Microbee 32 but had four additional cursor keys.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=462 (197 words)

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