Hello & Welcome to the Microbee Technology Forum

[MbeeTech]

Hello All.
Welcome to the new Microbee Technology Forum.

We've put this forum (and also a file repository) together to help grow the Microbee community 
and encourage [friendly] discussion about all things Microbee, including :
Pre-Microbee products from applied technology,
Microbee Systems products (Classic Microbee products from the 1980's),
Microbee Technology Products (retro and current technology),
and possibly, other retro / vintage computing platforms.

More details on the file repository will be made available in other posts.

Best regards to all,

Ewan J. Wordsworth
Microbee Technology

[MbeeTech]

Hello all.

I neglected to make mention of the tremendous assistance that Alan Laughton (ChickenMan) has been in getting the forum
and the Repository up & running.  Alan has been a long time supporter of Microbee and has a passion for preserving our digital heritage.
Without his help, this Forum & Repository would not have come to be.
Thanks very much Alan.  Your contributions, and indeed your friendship, is very much appreciated.

Best regards to all,

[AccedeToVegan]

Hello mates <3 I was actually looking for a Microbee Group on FaceBook , I'm a Swede that fell in Love with Melbourne House's "The Hobbit" for Sinclair Spectrum, Microbee was a Popular School computer here but the Importer that targeted schools made them real expensive for a 12yo

An old retired military friend had one as kid and he have looked long for a Microbee in Sweden for a Long time

Now his birthday ay is coming up and I will try to surprise him

Just a plain Machine not any fancy thing that is hard to service.

Spring greetings from a Stormy Scania

Btw I have a bit of a Retro Museum myself and run a Vegan Bed and Breakfast <3

[BobHarper]

Hello All MicroBee Users and Fans,
My Microbee 128k Premium dual floppy disk was the first computer I ever had that could store data on anything, other than a Cassette Tape! I got it in 1983(1984?) when I started a university course in Teaching Adult Education (TAFE rather than any other "Adult" education!!!).
I chose it after using a friend's MicroBee 56k, and having taken over building a 16k kit that another friend had tried to learn soldering on! That didn't go so well for him.
Before the 'Bee I had used a Commodore PET, 6502 based "Single Board Computer". Well it was in a box but the keyboard was calculator style and the storage was a bolted in cassette player, 3.8kRAM + 1kRAM for video, 40x25 characters in Amber and Black!
So the 'Bee was a huge step up and yet the PET had thankfully caused me to learn hand assembled Machine Code.
The next greatest jump of the 'Bee was using an Operating System, and better still a Disk Operating System. Having experienced CP/M on Malcom's 56k-Bee, and MDOS on another friend's M6800 machine, name unknown but I think it was a "rescued' industrial Euroboard type plug-in card; double height (6U) card; Motorola computer board perhaps.
So I guess I have been a fan of MicroBee's since 1983/4, though I may still have a receipt somewhere which might be interesting to review!
NOTE: 2024 is the 50th Anniversary of Digital Research's CP/M, the illegitimate child of MS-DOS and Unix. (I think there is another name for a child of unmarried parents! !  9-)

[ChickenMan]

Hi Bob and welcome to the forum

Big question, do you still have your Microbee?

[Snuffytime]

NOTE: 2024 is the 50th Anniversary of Digital Research's CP/M, the illegitimate child of MS-DOS and Unix. (I think there is another name for a child of unmarried parents! !  9-)

Um, actually ...
CP/M predates MS-DOS (which was a renamed 86-DOS and basically a rip-off of CP/M ported to the 8086 CPU), so if anyone is an illegitimate child ...