--- title: SMT Goupil 3 categories: - Computers types: - Professional Computer origins: - France years: - '1983' cpus: - Zilog Z80 A params: name: Goupil 3 image: /media/museum/photos/goupil_goupil3_1.jpg company: /companies/smt company_name: SMT specs: - label: NAME value: Goupil 3 - label: MANUFACTURER value: SMT - label: TYPE value: Professional Computer - label: ORIGIN value: France - label: YEAR value: '1983' - label: END OF PRODUCTION value: Unknown - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Unknown - label: KEYBOARD value: Full stroke keyboard with numeric keypad, editing keypad and 12 function keys - label: CPU value: Zilog Z80 A / Motorola MC6809 / Intel 8088 - label: SPEED value: 4 MHz (Z80) / 2 MHz (6809) / 4 MHz (8088) - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Optional numeric processor - label: RAM value: 64 KB (up to 1 MB) - label: VRAM value: Unknown - label: ROM value: 40 KB (Basic) + 4 KB (Bootstrap 6809) - label: TEXT MODES value: 25 x 80 - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: none (optional 512 x 256) - label: COLORS value: black & green original display (optional 8 color feature) - label: SOUND value: Unknown - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: Unknown - label: I/O PORTS value: Goupil Bus - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: one or two 5.25'' or 8'' disk drives - label: OS value: FLEX, CP/M, CP/M 86 or MSDOS - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in power supply unit - label: PRICE value: 35000 FF (1983, France) tabs: - photos - adverts photos: - title: GOUPIL G3 subtitle: '' text: |- Here is one of the many configurations available for the Goupil G3. Thanks to [www.bolo.ch](http://www.bolo.ch) for this picture image: /media/museum/photos/smt_goupil-g3_bolo_1.jpg - title: BACK SIDE subtitle: '' text: |- The hardware conception of the Goupil 3 mades it easy to adjust the configuration according to the user needs. 7 or 15 slots for plug-in cards are available. It's also possible to install and use simultaneously two different microprocessors and operating systems. **(1)** Colour or monochrome monitor. Can be separated from the base unit.\ **(2)** Keyboard.\ **(3)** Base unit including 64 or 128 Kb. RAM, 1 serial port and 2 parallel interfaces.\ **(4)** On / Off master switch.\ **(5)** Power supply with fan. 50 or 100 watts according to the configuration used.\ **(6)** Housing for various expansion cards.\ **(7)** Case for disk drives and / or hard-disk. image: /media/museum/photos/goupil_3_backside_1.jpg - title: FRENCH STEREOTYPE subtitle: '' text: Here is a Goupil 3 with a french beret ! Where is the baguette ? image: /media/museum/photos/smtp_goupil-3_beret.jpg adverts: - title: FRENCH AD (DEC.1983) subtitle: '' text: '"Goupil 3: three micro-computers in one!"' image: /media/museum/pubs/smt_goupil3_pub_3ordisen1.jpg - title: 'ADVERT #1' subtitle: '' text: As it's often the case with these promotional pictures, the whole scene sounds fake and so... unreal. image: /media/museum/pubs/goupil_3_pub_laboratory_1.jpg - title: 'ADVERT #2' subtitle: '' text: |- This is the home version of the Goupil 3, with only RGB video output and cassette interface. What a lucky girl ! Her father offered her a fantastic game machine (the game pictured here must be the only one available for the Goupil 3). This system is perfectly adapted to her small fingers and so delicate knees (have a look at this enormous keyboard, man !).\ The father must have been working for S.M.T. (manufacturer of the Goupil), as I don't see any other logical explanation. No one would have made this to his child without fearing eternal reproaches. image: /media/museum/pubs/goupil_3_pub_games_1.jpg comments: - author: Didier (Hong Kong) date: Tuesday 22nd February 2011 text: |- I still own one, but it''s been many years since I''ve booted it. Mine has a 5MB HDD and a 5.25" diskette reader. Green-on-Green Display $ but I remember we had connected some to a TV set to get colour display. The graphics card had two modes, 25x80 chars and a graphic mode, 512x256. 6809 processor @2 MHZ, 64 KB RAM + extra 256 KB card $ the 8-bit processor can''t address more than 64KB so we used page swapping to access the extra RAM. Coding was done mostly in ASM. Another use for this RAM card was RAM-disk. Very useful when compiling ASM projects. I remember using one in our club that had two processors (I think that was the limit) and you switched between processors by hitting the soft-interrupt switch on the front left side$ it took you to a kind of ROM-based debugger shell and you typed commands to switch and reboot. The very-often needed NMI switch (ASM programs tend to freeze more often than not $-)...) was at the back of the unit. There were no built-in languages $ unlike Goupil 2 that had a Basic in the ROM. Flex came with an assembler and a Basic interpreter. - author: Régis Schmidt (France) date: Monday 1st August 2016 text: The first real OS-with machine I used. I designed specific I/O Interface boards for it. - author: Florian (France) date: Wednesday 29th October 2008 text: |- I had used one as a child. The price seems exact as I recall when my father shelled for one for his statistical research.\ The screen was not 8 colors as indicated but black-and-green.\ It had a modem (needed for the Minitel emul and it could actually connect to data centers for number crunching.) Don''t know the speed.\ I think it only had room for two CPU boards, and i recall there was an actual flip switch on the back to $ the working processor. Don''t know what you mean by "time sharing" but if that''s "power down, switch CPU, power up", then, yes! oc_id: 132 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604032435/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=132 date: '2023-06-04' --- Like its little brothers **Goupil** and [Goupil 2](/museum/smt-goupil-2/), the Goupil 3 is based on a back-plane architecture. You get the computer you want by adding different electronic boards. Thus Goupil 3 can be a tri-processor system: Motorola 6809 like its little brothers, Zilog Z80 for CP/M compatibility and Intel 8088 to match the emerging "IBM PC/MS-DOS" movement. The processors don't work simultaneously but can use a time sharing mechanism. Like the [Goupil 2](/museum/smt-goupil-2/), the Goupil 3 was especially designed for communication, and thus had a built-in modem. Among other things it can emulate the Minitel (French videotext terminal) or connect to data centers. The 5.25" floppy disk drive can be replaced with an 8" drive (1.2 MB). A 10 MB hard disk was also available as an option. The Goupil 3 can run under a lot of operating systems: Flex 9 or Uniflex (with the 6809), CP/M (with the Z80) or CP/M 86 or MS-DOS with the 8088.
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