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The Memotech MTX Series |
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Memotech MTX Manuals
This page contains links to a selection of hardware and software
manuals as well as a listing of the books that were published
commercially for the Memotech range.
* * * A word about
the downloads on this page * * *
Most of this material has been collected from various
archives freely available on the internet. Although many of the
books and documents available on this page are no longer in
print, they are still subject
to copyright of the respective authors & publishers. Given
the age of the material here and the limited interest in the
subject matter, I believe
that the documents here can be distributed without restriction,
particularly as most are unobtainable through normal channels.
However, if you believe that any material here does not fall
into this category, please let me know and I will remove it.
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Hardware Manuals /
Reference |
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MTX
Technical Specification |
By Memotech Computers |
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Memotech Memory Extensions - Fitting & Testing |
By Memotech Computers |
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The MTX Series Communications Board
(Twin RS232)
The contents of this manual are also reproduced
in the
Technical section of the FDX Manual) |
By Memotech Computers
(Courtesy
of Stephen User) |
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MTX
500/512 Service Manual and Technical Information
(30MB) |
By Memotech Computers (Courtesy of
Andy Key) |
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MTX
500/512 Service Manual and Technical Information
(5MB) This document has the same content as the one
above, but is substantially smaller in size and actually
slightly better quality. This version also supports
text searches. |
Downloaded from :
http://www.zonadepruebas.com/
(This web site is Spanish) |
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Memotech BASIC Tutor Reference and Operators Manual
(6MB) |
By Memotech Computers (Courtesy of
Bill Brendling) |
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Insert from the US version of the Operators Manual,
describing the external VHF adaptor and channel selector
switch on the rear of US versions of the MTX |
By Memotech Computers (Courtesy of Jon
Bradbury) |
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Memotech BASIC Tutor Reference and Operators Manual
(German)
(5MB)
Memotech BASIC
Lehrgang Tecnisches Handbuch (Deutsch) (5MB) |
By Memotech Computers German
translation by Profisoft GmbH
(Courtesy of
Dr Stefan Höltgen) |
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Memotech Operator's Manual (91MB) (Revised
Edition) |
By Spencer Bateson
/ Phoenix Publishing For Memotech Computers
(Courtesy of
Jim Wills) |
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Memotech Floppy Disc System
Operator's manual
(FDX Version) |
By Memotech Computers
(Scanned by
me in high res)
This is the
complete Operator's manual and includes the
Operator's Manual,
FDX
BASIC,
Technical Manual,
NewWord,
SuperCalc. The individual sections can
be downloaded by clicking on the hyperlinks or the
images in the cells below. |
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Memotech
FDX Technical Manual
FDX Overview,
Disk Controller, 80 Column Card, Bus Interface Card,
Back Plane, Silicon Disk, Communications Board |
By Memotech Computers
(Scanned by
me in high res)
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Memotech MTX Computer Crib Card
Keywords, operating, commands, graphics commands, sound
commands, etc. |
By Phoenix Publishing, for Genpat,
the Memotech Owner's Club (Courtesy of Paul Daniels) |
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The Operator's Manual also includes
technical data such as
circuit diagrams, including the
power
regulation circuit. |
By Memotech Computers |
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Circuit diagram of the
VDP and VRAM, this detail is also included in the
Operator's Manual and Service Manual. |
By Memotech Computers |
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Schematic of the SM1
Floppy Disk Controller Clicking on the image will open
it full size in your web browser, or you can download a
Zipped copy by clicking the icon.
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This came from the MTX User Club in
Germany (Courtesy of
Peter Kretzschmar) |
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Schematic of the FDX
80 Column Board As a set of three images in a Zipped
file
It was originally marked "Branton & Boyd Ltd."
for the "SM1" - originating before Memotech? |
Another gem from the MTX User Club in
Germany (Courtesy of
Peter Kretzschmar) |
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Schematic of the FDX
80 Column Board The source was bit unclear, so my
schematic may have some inaccuracies in it. I have made
a few minor changes based on "reverse engineering" of my
boards and added a few comments for my own benefit
(which may, or may not, be correct). |
Drawn by Dave Stevenson, using
KiCAD, from the original document supplied by
Peter Kretzschmar. |
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Schematic of the SDX "FDC
05" Disk Controller (Updated to include logic
equations for the PALs) |
Drawn by Dave Stevenson, using
KiCAD, from original documentation supplied by Tony
Brewer. Tony has also checked the schematics for
accuracy and contributed a lot to its layout, so in the absence of any official circuit
diagram, this is as good as you are going to get! |
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Schematic of the
Memotech "Speculator" (Includes the logic equations
for the PALs) |
Drawn by Dave Stevenson, using
KiCAD, based on reverse engineering of his original
design by Tony Brewer.
Again, Tony has also checked the schematic for accuracy
and contributed a lot to its layout. |
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QumeTrak 142 5.25
Floppy Disk for FDX
Maintenance Manual
This copy has much better schematic diagrams
(This drive was also fitted to the
IBM
5155 PC) |
Downloaded from :
http://www.lo-tech.co.uk
There is a wiki page on the drive, including some
maintenance tips on
this page. |
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Later FDX disk drives
were Epson SD-521 (So far, I have not found a manual
for these) |
Have you seen a manual for this drive? |
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Astec AC8151
Specifications / Datasheet This is the PSU installed in
the FDX |
Downloaded from
bitsavers.org |
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Astec AC8151 PSU
Repair Manual (12MB) This is the PSU installed in
the FDX Also available in slightly
lower quality. (3MB) |
Downloaded from Kevin Pulo's
Osborne 1
site. (Product
release announcement, from "Computerworld", 8 March 1982.) |
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Cameron Video Wall User Manual Cameron Video
Systems (CVS) were the exclusive distributors for the
Memotech Videowall System. |
(Courtesy of
Peter Kretzschmar) (MEMOTECH
MTX Computersystem ) |
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Memotech Video Wall Product Description
Description of the Video Wall software from 1987,
includes remote control command strings. |
(Courtesy of
Andy Key) (Memotech Computers Limited) |
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HRX Graphics System --
HRG Utility Software Manual
User Manual and
Software Description for the HRG Graphics Utility
Software Package.
Also includes a description of
the HRX graphics system hardware. |
(Courtesy of
Simon Goodwin)
(Memotech April 1984) |
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DMX80 Operating
Instructions The DMX80 Printer was manufactured by
Panasonic and was, apart from the colour, identical to
the Panasonic KX-P1090. |
This manual was downloaded from the Panasonic
Canada website:-
https://panasonic.ca/PCS/....
OperatingInstructions/KXP1090.pdf
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DMX80 Operating
Instructions
Manual for the Memotech badged
DMX80 |
(Courtesy of Jan Seyfarth) |
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Software Manuals |
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Memotech ROM Based
Software |
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Node The Memotech
Node "Oxford Ring"
Token
Ring Network. Scan of the original hard copy
manual |
Memotech Limited
(Courtesy of
Jim Wills) |
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Node The Memotech
Node "Oxford Ring"
Token
Ring Network. |
Slightly different
Manual in PDF Format From the original document,
Node.DOC
(NewWord
manual courtesy of
Jim Wills) |
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Node - additional information |
Technical Note by Bill Brendling, building on the
ROM disassembly provided by Tony Brewer. Has details on
Node variables and the Ring packet structure (PDF)
(Rev: 29/03/2015) |
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My Technical Note
on Node Ring hardware |
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Memotech Speculator Speculator -
Tape 1
Instruction Leaflet |
Memotech Limited (Courtesy of Tony
Brewer) |
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HiSoft Pascal User Guide Memotech ROM Version |
Memotech Limited An
OCR'ed version,
cleaned up, checked and enhanced then "printed" to PDF
- much improved over the original scanned document. (Courtesy of
Paul Daniels) |
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HiSoft Pascal User Guide Memotech ROM Version |
Memotech Limited (Original manual -
scanned, courtesy of
Jim Wills) |
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Memotech Disk
Systems Software |
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Memotech FDX Operator's Manual I have also made a
fully searchable PDF, as a result of the OCR
process, the file has a slightly lower resolution that
the original scan, but is much more "user friendly" for
use on the PC |
By Memotech Computers
(Scanned by
me in high resolution)
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Memotech FDX BASIC & Utilities Manual
Includes :
FDX BASIC
Overlay8 and Cfig8 - R/W Televideo format
Contact - Communications Program |
By Memotech Computers
(Scanned by
me in high res)
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NewWord on the FDX and NewWord DIY Version 2.1 for
Memotech FDX (19MB) |
FDX Preface by Memotech NewWord manual
by
NewStar (Scanned by me in high res) |
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SuperCalc User's Guide and Reference Manual
Version 1.2 for Memotech FDX (13MB) |
Published by
Sorcim
(Scanned by me in high res) |
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SDX CP/M Software Manual
(Italian)
(6MB)
Il Sistema SDX CP/M
(Italiano)
(6MB) |
Enrico Fisoni / Stefano Groppioni
CNUCE (Centro
Nazionale Universitario di Calcolo Elettronico)
(Courtesy of
Andy Key) |
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3rd Party Software |
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Brunword Tape based Word Processor |
Manual in Rich Text
Format (Courtesy of Paul Daniels) |
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EdAsm - Z80 Macro Assembler |
Manual as JPG images
in a RAR file (Courtesy of Paul Daniels) |
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MTX F.I G. Forth
User Manual |
By Keith Jones, published by SyntaxSoft
(Courtesy of Diarmid Gibson) |
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Reference Manuals |
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The Source by Keith Hook
Produced by Orion Software - one of the many faces of SyntaxSoft. Assembly
language helper for using MTX features such as sound and
graphics.
Download the PDF for a sneak preview of what you are
missing - includes the contents list and 1 page from
most chapters only |
Status
This copy provided courtesy of Jon Bradbury.
A group of us paid to get this publication
professionally scanned, re-printed and bound. With
the release of ReSource, this
version is pretty much obsolete, although not available
for download, I will make a copy available to folks who
have other Memotech documents to share. |
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Know Your MTX
Written by Ed
Hollingshead but never actually published. (Upload
coming soon) |
Originally written in NewWord on FDX.
I have a corrupted/incomplete copy (without the
intended attachments) that I have converted to Microsoft
Word and attempted to recover.
The PDF document
here is a work in progress and likely contains errors
and omissions not present in the original. |
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ReSource
An updated version of The
Source.
Compiled by Martin Allcorn with
contributions from Bill Brendling. Corrects errors in
the original and having greatly expanded content, it provides useful guidance on programming
the MTX and includes technical details of Martin's MTX
add-ons, such as MAGROM and CFX. |
(Courtesy of Martin Allcorn and
Bill Brendling)
It is likely that others
will have useful contributions to make. If you have
anything that you'd like to contribute, please get in
touch.
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Bill |
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added |
Martin |
| Content Expanded |
Bill |
| First Release |
Martin |
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Memotech Technical Notes |
The following Technical Notes were sent to me by Claus.
They appear to have been sent to some early
customers who were looking for technical information
that was missing from the first manuals shipped with the
MTX. From the correspondence that Claus supplied, it
seems that before the familiar black covered manuals
were shipped, early computers were accompanied by
"draft" manuals with white covers. I have not actually
seen one of these, but they appeared to lack much of the
technical details that was included in the release
version of the manual authored by Brian Prichard or the
revised edition written by Spencer Bateson and published
by Phoenix.
The copies are not brilliant and some
text has been lost, mainly from the top of some of the
pages. If you have better copies of these notes, please
send me a copy. I think that the content from a number
of these Technical Notes were included in an unpublished
book by Ed Hollingshead entitled "Know Your MTX"
- see above.
Note: these documents contain a mixture
of printed output from the Assembler which is likely to
be without error, and typed notes, which may not be -
use them as you see fit. If you believe that they are in
error, you might like to seek help on the
Memotech Forum,
I'm not familiar with Z80 assembly language and am not
likely to be able to help.
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1st Technical Report 1984
The contents
describe a Section 1 having answers to some customer
questions (missing) and a Section 2 discussing Machine
Code on the MTX under various topics - only the Video
section discussing RST10 appears to be complete.
[References System Variables described in the Operator's
Manual Software Appendix] |
(Courtesy of Claus Baekkel) |
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Sound Chip Introduction
Using the SN76489A
from MTX Assembler
[This document cross
references entries in the original Operator's Manual by
page number and so probably post dates its issue.] |
(Courtesy of Claus Baekkel) |
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The following Technical Notes were sent to me by Alan
Wilson. Alan is the AF Wilson that you may recall
submitting various items to a number of computer
magazines back in the '80s. |
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MTX Tape to Disk Conversion Booklet
Includes
a copy of the assembler program |
(Courtesy of Alan Wilson) |
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Power Graphics for Memotech, MSX and Einstein Computers
MTX Advanced Referenced Manual was updated to
include MTX, MSX and Einstein computers and was renamed
as VDP Discovered manual. |
(Courtesy of Alan Wilson) |
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VDP Discovered
Advanced Reference Manual for
Memotech MTX and Tatung Einstein |
(Courtesy of Alan Wilson) |
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Memotech Related
Books |
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Although they
are still covered by the copyrights of their respective
authors and publishers, all of the books published for
the MTX series are now out-of-print and pretty difficult
to obtain.
Andy kindly donated a copy of the book below,
meaning that I had a duplicate. Even though it was a
shame to destroy the original, in order to make a high
quality copy of the book available to the wider Memotech
community, with Andy's permission, I have unbound the
book and scanned it to PDF.
The document
has been converted to recognisable text, so you should
be able to search it as well as Cut and Paste the
content into text documents to load into MEMU etc. The
text recognition is not perfect, so you will probably
have to do some manual editing, but it is better than
having to type in the whole listing.
Should you
actually do this. please consider making the resultant
BASIC file available to the community.
A small
number of the programs from the books below are available on the
Type-ins page
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The Memotech MTX Program Book By Peter
Goode
Front cover,
Back cover |
Published Jan 1984 by Phoenix Pub.
Associates.
(Out of print 20/10/2003)
ISBN 10 0946576181
ISBN 13 9780946576180 |
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The titles below are listed for information only, I do not have
electronic copies of these publications, although I do
have a hard copy of the first two.
I don't think that either of the Spencer Bateson
books were ever published, unless you know differently ? |
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Memotech Computing By Ian Sinclair
Front cover,
Back cover |
Published March 1984 by Granada /
HarperCollins Distribution Services
ISBN 10 0246124083
ISBN 13 9780246124081 |
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The Memotech Games Book
By Owen Bishop and Audrey Bishop
Front cover,
Back cover |
Published June 1984 by Granada Publishing
ISBN 10 0246124075 ISBN 13 9780246124074 |
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Getting Started With the Memotech Mtx
By Spencer Bateson |
Published September 1984 by Phoenix Pub
Assoc. ISBN 10 0946576165
ISBN 13 9780946576166 |
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Advanced Programming With the Memotech
Mtx By Spencer Bateson |
"Published" October 1984 by Phoenix Pub Assoc .
ISBN 10 0946576173
/ ISBN 13 9780946576173
(This title
was deleted, Genpat
Issue3 from November 1984, describes the "new
Phoenix MTX Operators" manual as
"including the best parts out of [this] deleted book" |
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I found
this Finnish translation of a book by Ian Sinclair,
I suspect that it is the "Memotech Computing" book, but as
I don't read Finnish..... |
Published 1985 by Amersoft (Finland)
ISBN 951 35 3336 0 |
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