Hi there Paul If we thought Maximite was special! Micromite Plus is
in Beta and will be available soon. Geoff has done it again. See the
specs attached.

Hope your Aust trip goes well.

Steve Izett

Might be OK for small dedicated applications but no where near as
easy to program as a Maximite . It is just a chip as far as I can
tell.

I love the Maximite use of a VGA display, PC keyboard and free DOS
like operating system at no extra charge. It is like having a
complete DOS computer on a small 4" by 4" PC board with a 64 Gig hard
disk.

Everybody should buy one that is interested in  computer control of
mechanical devices. It is 100 times easier to program  than ANYTHING
else  that has come before it or anything else after it that I am
aware of. I have been in microcomputers since the get go back in the
early 1970's.

Paul Lamar



Have another look Paul
Geoff who created the maximite has been busy creating the next iteration.
Display is now handled by dedicated LCD’s and MMBasic is even more powerful.
Steve Izett


Shades of Apple II days :-) The biggest problem we had was the
40 character lines of the Apple II displays. The only thing
beating a VGA display is more characters and more lines :-)
Most dedicated LCD's are totally inadequate for programming.

When I program the Maximite I use another computer and a SVGA display
with the BASIC user manual displayed so I can look up the many
Maximite BASIC commands instantaneously.

It is good that MMBasic is more powerful.

Where is the PC Keyboard interface?

Is the DOS like operating system more powerful?

What I would like to see is Linux instead. In Linux
you can have 36 virtual computers with unique screens.
A click of the mouse selects any one of them.

Talk about power. People that have never used Linux
have no idea of what they are missing. With out Linux
I could never run this news letter with 500,000 files.

To top it all off it is totally free. If your Windows computer
crashes you have to pay the richest man in the world another
several hundred dollars for a new operating system..
You cannot copy a Windows boot disk.

Paul Lamar

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