Hi Gregoire,
The expansion port is available on your Premium Plus. Provision for it is situated on the Main board instead of the Coreboard in close to the same location it was on the 16 & 32K systems, just need to solder in a connector.
There was a floppy drive kit for the Premium Plus, I have fitted one of these kits to my Premium Plus some time back.
Possibly a GOTEK kit with everything need for the not so technical customers to get one up and running without all the fuss of getting all the individual bits together.
Parallel port printers are still available but very expensive and require the old MX80/FX80 protocols to function on the Microbee.
There are several enthusiasts who have done FPGA Microbee emulations over the years. Check out HACKADAY for one of these.
If you want an experience where you can easily switch between such significantly different models, have a look at an emulator such as the uBee512 which can be easily set to emulate just about every Microbee model there was.
The ability to connect the Microbee to a Raspberry Pi, well your wish may soon come to reality. Check out this new model in development https://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/cl...mputer.htm. The interface is meant to be Arduino compatible but I'm sure it would not be too difficult to interface with a Pi instead.
Ernest
The expansion port is available on your Premium Plus. Provision for it is situated on the Main board instead of the Coreboard in close to the same location it was on the 16 & 32K systems, just need to solder in a connector.
There was a floppy drive kit for the Premium Plus, I have fitted one of these kits to my Premium Plus some time back.
Possibly a GOTEK kit with everything need for the not so technical customers to get one up and running without all the fuss of getting all the individual bits together.
Parallel port printers are still available but very expensive and require the old MX80/FX80 protocols to function on the Microbee.
There are several enthusiasts who have done FPGA Microbee emulations over the years. Check out HACKADAY for one of these.
If you want an experience where you can easily switch between such significantly different models, have a look at an emulator such as the uBee512 which can be easily set to emulate just about every Microbee model there was.
The ability to connect the Microbee to a Raspberry Pi, well your wish may soon come to reality. Check out this new model in development https://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/cl...mputer.htm. The interface is meant to be Arduino compatible but I'm sure it would not be too difficult to interface with a Pi instead.
Ernest