System Review: Memotech MTX512

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[markvergeer]

Very nice system review. Any computer with a bullshit key is a winner in my book! LOL

Love the background information you give.

I totally agree about the excellent sleek design. I guess the good looks and the MTX512 designation is what made it a star in that 80s Weird Science movie.

But don't forget it IS true that you can fabricate cyberwomen with this machine. Just a brazier on the head some clippings et voila madame leBroc ! LOL

[SteveBenway]

@markvergeer I don't think I'll be trying that... lol :D

[DdlyHeadshot]

What are the blank keys either side of the space bar? I presume they're something along the lines of control keys or command keys or something...

[SteveBenway]

@DdlyHeadshot Oops... catching up here, sorry for the delay. Pressing both blank keys together resets the machine, kinda like Ctrl, Amiga, Amiga on the Amiga.

[Bakemon13]

How do you load video from a tape? Really, I don't get it!

[SteveBenway]

@Bakemon13 You plug an audio lead from the tape player into the audio input on the computer. Type LOAD "" on the computer, hit ENTER and then press play on the tape. The tape contains an audio track that sounds like the screeching from a dialup modem... this is the data in analogue audio form. The computer interprets that analogue audio into digital data, and loads it into memory. When it's all loaded, the computer runs it, or sometimes you have to type RUN.

[CastleDeacon]

I have the one I bought back in the 80s, still in good working order. It was a lovely machine to program on although sprite collision commands didn't work (at least not on the early units).

Internally it was quite well built, much like the exterior. I converted several games for this machine which were never published due to the collapse of the market and Memotech at the time. I suspect those tapes are rotting in a unit somewhere.

Thanks for the trip down Memotech lane.

[TeamRocketReviews]

I saw one of these on Craigslist recently.

[blackcountryme]

This was a machine i never heard of... and it should of gotten a better fate than it had! I like metal cases on keyboards in a pinch you can use it to defend yourself i the event of zombie attack...It might happen!

768k wow, built in assembler...waaa i want one...

You can get eletro lube in a spray can to clean stuff or a can of air will do. or take EVERY key out and clean it.

[theinquisitor]

That's the computer used in Weird Science? Have you tried making a woman with it?

[Bemmu]

This was a great computer, but in real use it the power tended to heat up quite much and there was increasing interference when connecting it to a TV. I have great memories of this, I'm still not sure why, but it was incredibly exciting to hack on this computer. Possibly because it was my first introduction to basic programming.

I tried the NODDY programming language too. You could design screens and display them from code. Very similar to the text TV feature in many televisions.

[Zagroseckt]

in the 1980's our computers were keyboards that hooked up to the tv..

Then we got real computers.

2011. Were back to keyboards that hookup to our tv's again.

[blaizevincent]

@SteveBenway i know i actually didnt ask but i had always wondered about this and as is the case here had never bothered to ask. Thankfully Bakemon13 has done this for me and you have provided a fantastic answer and in turn i get to continue to be lazy and clueless , but slightly enlightened ,everyone's happy :P

Great Review!