Microbee Technology

Welcome to Microbee Technology! After an absence from the marketplace of almost 20 years, Microbee is back! As Australian as ever, Microbee is back with a mixture of old and new to put the buzz back into computing. We are very excited to be able to offer some great new technology, support people interested in our older models and also to offer up a new kit computer to encourage and support new I.T. careers in the making. New Microbee kit computer Update - Released for production! ->News / Blog We have been hard at work over the last 8 months designing a new Microbee. The Premium Plus is a hybrid kit computer - that is, the baseboard (which has the keyboard, Z80 CPU, PIO, 6545 screen controller and video circuits) will be supplied in kit form with comprehensive assembly instructions, and the coreboard will be pre-assembled & tested as it is mostly surface mount technology. We have put a lot of goodies into the new coreboard design, including floppy disk emulation and storage via SDcard. There is also an ethernet port and high speed serial (RS232) port. The best bit is that there is also another microprocessor on the new coreboard and it has been configured to make the Premium Plus a true dual processor computer. It is a limited edition and only 100 units will be available in total. We have closed off the ‘register your interest’ list now and all 100 units have been allocated. Premium Plus kits will be made available on a first come, first served basis to those that have registered interest as top priority. Should any of the people that have registered to purchase a kit not take up the offer when they are available, the spare kits will be made available when our web store is launched. Please visit the Premium Plus page and also our latest News/Blog entry for more information and stay tuned! Curious about the New Microbee company? How did the new company come into being? What is the history of the Microbee brand? For details on where Microbee has been and the path to relaunching the company, have a look at our ‘About Us / History ‘ page. Looking for software or documentation for your old bee? There is a vast amount of software and information available for the old Microbee computers and while Microbee Technology still retains the ownership and copyright over the material (it is not being placed in the public domain), we would like to make it publically available at no cost to the end user. To this end, we have made all of the microbee company owned software and documentation available from websites licensed to distribute the works. To download any of the Microbee company owned & copyright material you will have to sign (electroncally) an end user license agreement & acceptance to a ‘no warranty, no liability’ notice. There are currently 2 websites that hold valid software and published works licenses. Both of these websites have forums that can be an excellent place to discuss all things microbee. Aside from holding a licence to distribute the Microbee company owned material, there is no financial or management link between Microbee Technology Pty Ltd and the websites, both of which are separate entities. Here are the links to the websites : The Beeboard / Microbee Museum Microbee Software Preservation Project If you do not have an old microbee or emulator and you would like to see what the microbee was like, there is an excellent online virtual microbee called the Nanowasp. The author has done an excellent job in putting this site together and is also licensed to distribute the couple of files needed to make it run. Here is the Link. Nanowasp online Microbee emulator

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