Content with the complete media download (15,344 files)

228 files were never archived; see docs/not-recovered.md in the extraction repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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- '68008'
params:
name: Tonto
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_rightside_1.jpg
company: /companies/merlin
company_name: Merlin
specs:
@@ -70,27 +71,27 @@ params:
- title: SYSTEM
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_system_1.jpg
- title: LEFT SIDE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_leftside_1.jpg
- title: KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP
subtitle: ''
text: A demo program cartridge and BASIC cartridge are inserted in both microdrives
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_keybcloseup_1.jpg
- title: COLOUR MONITOR
subtitle: ''
text: Pronto with Merlin 14" colour monitor.
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_colourmon_1.jpg
- title: MONOCHROME MONITOR
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_monochrommon_1.jpg
- title: RUNNING
subtitle: ''
text: Pronto and monochrome monitor running Xchange Task Control.
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_running_1.jpg
- title: BACK SIDE
subtitle: ''
text: |-
@@ -98,35 +99,35 @@ params:
**(2)** Serial printer DB9 connector\
**(3)** RGB video out and power input DB15 connector. Power is supplied by the monitor\
**(4)** Telephony module with two telephone lines
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_back_1.jpg
- title: ROM-PACK
subtitle: ''
text: |-
The ROM-pack module itself contains Xchange, a 4 elements business applications package originally made by PSION for the Sinclair QL and including QUILL, ABACUS, ARCHIVE and EASEL.\
Several optional ROM cartridges could be added. Here, Datalink 2, Interfile and Messaging applications are inserted.
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_rompack_1.jpg
- title: INSIDE
subtitle: ''
text: For more information about Tonto mainboard, see [OPD motherboard](/museum/icl-opd-one-per-desk/) picture.
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_inside_1.jpg
- title: CPU BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: A piggy-back board carries the 68008 CPU **(1)**, 4 ROM chips **(2)** holding the Tonto operating system, and the Texas Instruments TMP5220C speech synthesiser IC **(3)**, which has 16 KB of custom ROM.
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_cpuboard_1.jpg
- title: DUST COVER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_dustcover_1.jpg
- title: TAPE CARTRIDGES
subtitle: ''
text: |-
Various software on microdrive tape cartridges.\
Right ones are empty.
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_tapecart_1.jpg
- title: CARTRIDGES CASES
subtitle: ''
text: Original Merlin tape cartridges cases
image: null
image: /media/museum/photos/merlin_tonto_tapecart_2.jpg
hardware:
- title: DATA COMMS ADAPTOR
subtitle: ''
@@ -135,17 +136,17 @@ params:
Profiles of various terminals could be entered and stored in the adapter. Each profile could be set to match the specification of the terminal to be emulated.\
The TONTO could emulate VT100, VT52 and Teletype terminals, or could be configured to operate with protocol convertors.\
A serial connector insured the link to a host computer.
image: null
image: /media/museum/hardware/merlin_tonto_datacom_1.jpg
- title: ROM-PACK/6
subtitle: ''
text: |-
A rare ROM-pack version allowing six ROM cartridges to be inserted and used simultaneously.\
Only 20 ROM-packs of this type were built.
image: null
image: /media/museum/hardware/merlin_tonto_rompack6_1.jpg
- title: TELELOCK
subtitle: ''
text: This add-on was firmly fixed to the TONTO case so that only the key owner could use the computer.
image: null
image: /media/museum/hardware/merlin_tonto_telelock_1.jpg
comments:
- author: '''''CABBIK'''' (England)'
date: Saturday 13rd January 2018