I picked up a few microNOVA's today

[bolex]

I went on a small road trip and picked up a few microNOVA's this afternoon. The lot has a CS10, an MP100 and three dual 8" floppy drives. It also came with a Cipher F880. The MP100's included a manual, but where is a good starting point to find more manuals and documentation for DG stuff like this?

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

See the Archives at http://www.simulogics.com/
And that's pretty much it, aside from what's in Bitsavers.

 

[CommodoreZ]

Welcome to the Data General world. I don't think we've seen too many microNOVA users in the mix.

Beyond the two main resources that pbirkel mentioned, pretty much everything DG related I've found on the greater web (resources, projects, etc.) I've created a directory for: https://www.commodorez.com/novarsc.html

 

[bear]

novasareforever.org

 

[CommodoreZ]

simulogics.com and novasareforever.org are the same site. Those two, and nova-at-50.org are all run by Bruce Ray, who supplied the vast majority of the available documentation and software for DG stuff through the hobbyist license he arranged for us.

 

[rittwage]

I love the look of these!

 

[traveler_aa5]

The Nimslo MK1A 3D photo printer used the MP100. I wrote all the code for it. We also knew we would need more program space than the available 32KB, so we designed a memory board that could pull code from EPROMs on the memory board, and run it from ram. We would pull in 8K Bytes (4K words), and discard when getting another block. I had to write code that read the linker map, and use this for linking the memory card EPROMs. We ended only using 24KB from the memory card.