MCS Alpha 1

The ALPHA-1, made by Berliner Unternehmens MCS (“Micronic Computer Systeme GmbH”) is an early computer, produced in 1977. The design is influenced heavily by the KIM-1 with many improvements and enhancements.

It is ready to run, has a KIM-1 compatible cassette file format. The system exist of an external CPU board and a  cased display/keyboard I/O system.

Documents in PDF format:

– Article in Radio Bulletin, August 1979, written by me
– User guide Band 1 and Band 2 (scanned by me)
– Alpha Handbuch Okt 1977 (different scan, missing 6532 appendix
– Mona 2 listing
– Mona 2 in hex format

Other MCS products around the MCS-bus

– MCS Basic V2.0
– M622 CPU card
– M628 I/O card
– M628 sockets
– M639 Floppy interface
– M677 Floppy interface
– FDOS V2.0 Floppy disk system
– M660 SBC 6502 card with MONA 4 ROM listing
– M6660 Connectors
– Mona 4 in hex format
– DRDIS V4 in hex format
– Loader V41 in hex format
– M687 A/D converter
– M688 D/A converter
– M707 32 K DRAM
– M764 6522 I/O card