Micronex System Group

Location: Bristol, England

Overview

The company sold their products in the European market, they licensed manufactoring for the USA & Canda to Maxtek, Inc.

H/Z89 Hardware

PixelPlotter. Supported 512 x 256 pixel graphics in the European market.

Although a Micronex magazine ad mentions the PixelPlotter was also available for the Z-19 terminal, but the manual, I have for the installation of the graphics board, clearly requires the H/Z-89 CPU board for operation.

Software Products

Symbol Generator - Subroutines to generate characters and strings with bold face and 90 degree rotation options, circles, arcs, vectors. rectangles, area fills with reverse video option, callable from your programs. $175

Graph Plotter - Choice of four representations (line, histogram, bar graph, and scatter plot) with automatic annotation of axis and automatic scaling that allows any number of functions to be displayed on one set of axis, callable from your programs. $175

3D Generator - User accessible routines for creation, editing, and viewing "wire-frame" objects from any angle and in any orientation with scaling "zoom" and a graphics editor. $345

Surface Plotter - True perspective view with full hidden line removal of curved surfaces in perspective from a user defined viewpoint, callable from your programs. $395

Graphics Terminal - Emulates a subset of the Tektronix 4010 series Graphics Terminal functions. Simple menu-driven keyboard commands for configuration and dot-dash and erase mode vectors. $395

Screen Printer - Sends graphic images from PixelPlotter to supported printers.

Ads

Micronex ad from Practical Computing Sept. 1981

Personnel

Unknown

Current Status: Assumed closed

 

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This site is dedicated to preserving the history of the original Heathkit computers. This includes the 8-bit H-8 and 16-bit H-11 systems, released in 1977, and the 8-bit H89 which was released in 1979.