Jim, I'll have a 16B at VCF-SE this weekend. You take as close a look as you want. It has a single slim 8" drive, an internal 15MB hard disk, and an external 5 MB hard disk. It also has the 68K card stack with 768KB RAM. I don't have a keyboard for it though. I bought a 16 keyboard thinking it would work at the time; then hit the cabling problem.
Does anyone know if the 16 keyboard circuitry will work with a 16B if I created a custom cable? -Alan On 2017-04-25 22:56, Peter Cetinski via cctalk wrote: >> On Apr 25, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Jim Brain <br...@jbrain.com> wrote: >> >> So, the 16B has the KB conn on the machine, but the KB? >> And, the 16B has the Z80 motherboard, witht eh 68K in the cage? > > 16B keyboard is the same as the 12. Cord is on the KB with a male connector. > Female is on the machine. > 16B has the same main board as the 12 with 68K in the cage. Notice I use > "main board" as technically the cage board was referred to as the motherboard > in these machines. > > The 6000 released in 1985 was a slightly enhanced 16B with the biggest > difference being the upgrade to an 8Mhz MC68000. This system allowed you to > run XENIX 3.x and address up to 1MB of RAM. I thought the 16B could also do > 1MB of RAM? 16B was factory maxed at 768k but I'm pretty sure 1MB is fine. > Can the 6000 still run the Z80 Oses (like TRSDOS II and such)? (I assume so, > since you noted that all units of this entire line used a Z80 for IO) Yes, the 6000 can run all previous software. > Jim
