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Subject: Re: Collector's Corner..The Motorola 68000 Processor

Author: Steve B

Date: 08:01:47 01/21/05

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HI Alain
>I suppose it is quite rare and would be expensive on ebay...

yes it was very expensive but as you say..unusually rare and of historical
importance so to me it was worth the price
you do not find a computer like this on Ebay(or at least i have never seen an
Excalibur on Ebay)

only about  50 of them were made by Mephisto

>Anyway : is the ESB on the picture special or can the Mephisto Excalibur be
>connected to an older ESB (like ESB II for example) ?

as you correctly point out the board used is similar to an  ESB board
but the Excalibur module was not interchangable and was fixed to the board
so the computer was not able to accept any other modules
if you look closely on top of the Mephisto display screen you will see the black
program module
what looks like a Mephisto I or II OR III computer really is not used in the
Excalibur
it is used only for the display screen with the program module seperate and
apart from the Mephisto portable unit

Best Regards
Steve





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