Paul,

 It looks like there are several versions of the Maximite.   Which do
 you recommend?

 Subject: K9555 - Silicon Chip Magazine Maximite Colour Computer Kit
  Altronics

 http://www.altronics.com.au/p/k9555-maximite-colour-computer-kit/


 Scott Gettings

 Yes that is it.   Color Maximite.

 They are in Australia so that may be an Australian price.

 There used to be a company in the US called Circuit Gizmo. That sold
 it in the US. Put "circuitgizmo maximite" in your search engine.

 My GOOGLE search engine quit working for some strange reason. They
 wanted me to verify I was not a robot. But that did not work either.
 I think Google is down. Does it work for you?

 Also my smart phone quit working. Same thing Google. Google ought to
 be put out of business. They are a monopoly.

 I used another search engine and found it.

 http://circuitgizmos.com/gizmo-store/#!/Maximite-Computer/c/14171440/offset=0&sort=normal


<http://circuitgizmos.com/gizmo-store/#!/Maximite-Computer/c/14171440/offset=0&sort=normal



 $59 dollars US for just the assembled PC board. That is the one I
 use.

 ----------------------------------------------------------- BTW this
 is the site of the guy that invented it. Absolutely a genius.

 http://geoffg.net/maximite.html <http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

 I wish we had a Color Maximite on the time to climb. Then we would
 have a 100 times better instrument panel. The Motec instrument panel
 sucks big time. The Motec 800 does some of the things like data
 logging which is trivial on a Maximite. If I had my way on the TTC I
 would have used 5 Maximite's instead of anything Motec has. Motec
 cost thousands of dollars.

 Here is the Motec instrment panel. You select one of three with the
 switch. See if you can make head or tails out of it.


 Now here is a screen from the Maximite

 The display potential is enormous. Screens are available in many
 different sizes as they are standard PC VGA's



 Paul Lamar


 It seems that most of the big EFI players have ECU's that are set
 and controlled by software, which have gauges displayed, setting
 tables and code burning ability. Who ever set up the time to climb
 would have used that software, called M1 Tune. That in your pic is a
 dashboard display, fairly limited with just the basics needed to fly
 the aircraft.  Computer hardware is not much good unless there is
 software to go with. Lots of us can tinker with the mechanical, some
 electronic hardware, but programming will send most into hiding!

 Steve Carlisle

 That a real shame. The colleges pushing programming look down their
 nose at BASIC to justify their existence. A five year old can learn
 to program a Maximite. In fact, once you learn it, you can explores
 all sorts of obscure equations and get an A in college math and
 physics for that matter.

 Paul Lamar

Paul and all
Geoff Graham developed the Micromite after the Maximite.
Go Micromite or Micromite Plus as it has all the Maximite does and more.
Faster hardware and further developed mmbasic with for example integer math which Maximite cant do.

http://geoffg.net/micromite.html OR http://geoffg.net/MicromiteMX470.html

Cheers
Steve Izett


I disagree Steve. It does not have a printed circuit board with a PC
keyboard interface or a VGA monitor interface. It is also missing a battery
backed up real time clock and 32Gig SD card slot. These things are
essential. The micro mite is just another micro computer that
uses a windows notebook for software development. The same
as at least a dozen others. There are several ARM versions that
are way more powerful.

This is one ARM that I have as well as several others.

It is obsolete IMHO.

Paul Lamar

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