Memotech Interfaces

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Memotech Interfaces

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I have got a load of Memotech Interfaces from someones shed outside of their nice cases.

Here are my gueses as to what they are, anyone fill in the blanks or correct?

MT05-XX 32K Ram
MT06-XX Unknown
MT07-XX Centronics
MT08-XX RS232
MT09-XX 16K Ram
MT10-XX Keyboard Buffer
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Can you take some good close up pictures please :mrgreen:

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This was my plan, some of the interfaces have obviously been modified post manufacturer.
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like 1024Mak says some picture to help identify would be of great assitance, myself i can only confirm that the MT09-xx is indeed a 16K dynamic memory pack.

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MT06-03 is the Hi-res pack, MT07-02 the Centronics, MT09-02 the 16k rampack.
Pity You haven't got MT11-02 the Z80 assembler pack, the most useful of the lot.

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EDIT MT11-02 is also the part no for the Memotext word processor, but as the board is identical except for the omission of a chip here and there it's understandable.
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Peter has the memotech manuals on his pages. Maybe that might help to identify the modules:
http://www.zx81.de/memotech/_frame_e.htm

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Pictures and information on lots of ZX81 peripherals including some of the Memotech ones here

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Moggy wrote:MT06-03 is the Hi-res pack, MT07-02 the Centronics, MT09-02 the 16k rampack.
Pity You haven't got MT11-02 the Z80 assembler pack, the most useful of the lot.

Moggy

EDIT MT11-02 is also the part no for the Memotext word processor, but as the board is identical except for the omission of a chip here and there it's understandable.
Thanks that fills in the MT06 gap for me. Its in pretty poor state and prevents the zeddy booting so I think it needs some TLC!
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I finally got a chance to photograph and upload the pics for these interfaces.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/264960 ... 194989900/

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Very nice ... What a haul! Do you think the seller had some connection with memotech or was he simply a fanboy or perhaps authorised service agent or somesuch?

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