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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Mupid 2	Computers	Home Computer	Austria	1983	Zilog Z80A	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos hardware links related oc_id source Mupid 2 /media/museum/photos/mupid_mupid2_1s.jpg /companies/mupid MUPID label value NAME Mupid 2 label value MANUFACTURER Mupid label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Austria label value YEAR 1983 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Basic label value KEYBOARD fullstroke keyboard, 77 keys with numeric keypad label value CPU Zilog Z80A label value SPEED 3 MHz label value RAM 64 KB label value VRAM 64 KB label value ROM 16 KB label value TEXT MODES 40 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES 240 x 320 label value COLORS 16 colors from a palette of 4096 label value SOUND 4 voices, built-in speaker label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS SCART video/audio output,, 2 x joystick connectors (DIN6), Tape interface (DIN8), Modem (DB25), Serial connector (DB9), External disk drive connector(DIN8) label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PERIPHERALS External 5.25'' floppy drive unit label value PRICE $7,900 photos hardware links 1089 title subtitle text image MUPID C2A2 CLOSE-UP [Thomas Conté](http://www.pas.net) /media/museum/photos/mupid2.jpg title subtitle text image MUPID C2A2 [Thomas Conté](http://www.pas.net) /media/museum/photos/mupid1.jpg title subtitle text image MUPID II Thanks to Sveto Nilovic for this picture /media/museum/photos/mupid_mupid2_1.jpg title subtitle text image 5.25'' DOUBLE DISK DRIVE Thanks to Sveto Nilovic for this picture /media/museum/hardware/mupid_mupid2_dd.jpg title url text much.iicm.tugraz.at/much/projects http://much.iicm.edu/projects/overview.htm/ various Mupid content in this project pages, by the father of Mupid computers /museum/mupid 1119 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230605034559/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1119 2023-06-05

The Mupid was followed by the Mupid 2 which had a better keyboard, and which supported the CEPT Prestel standard instead of the national Austrian one. At their time, the Austrian post office even replaces Mupid 1 by Mupid 2s for free (I wonder what they did with all these returned Mupid 1 models).

There were 3 Mupid 2 models:
- C2D (German version of the square tin case with separate keyboard) According to some rumor, these models did not went into sales.
- C2D2 (German version of the compact case labelled "Komfort MUPID")
- C2A2 (Austrian version of the compact case)
- In addition there was a Mupid card for early PCs.

Apart from the floppy disc drive, there was one additional option for the Mupid 2.

The so-called "Permanent Memory" upgraded a normal Mupid 2 to a "Komfort Mupid" (it seems that all German C2D2 models were Komfort Mupids). This option consists of a battery-buffered 128 KB CMOS memory that costed an enormous 420 Euro (currently about 650$). This memory allowed either:
- to store and reload existing Prestel pages without additional costs
- to store BASIC programs or graphics without other external memory
- to be used as a RAM disc (this even allowed to run CP/M without a floppy disc)

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Contributors: Fritz Hohl

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