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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Now you go and spoil it all by saying something mupid like I love you.
Saturday 6th August 2022
Gig Ahertz
Hi Petrisor,
If you still have the Mupid, please write me to my name at gmail.com, thanks!
Tuesday 28th April 2015
robcfg (Spain)
I have one of these at home, it still works I guess and it would be a shame if I''d throw it away. Well... if someone needs it, give me an email.
Tuesday 12th November 2013
Petrisor Stoican (Romania)
NAME
Mupid 2
MANUFACTURER
Mupid
TYPE
Home Computer
ORIGIN
Austria
YEAR
1983
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
Basic
KEYBOARD
fullstroke keyboard, 77 keys with numeric keypad
CPU
Zilog Z80A
SPEED
3 MHz
RAM
64 KB
VRAM
64 KB
ROM
16 KB
TEXT MODES
40 x 25
GRAPHIC MODES
240 x 320
COLORS
16 colors from a palette of 4096
SOUND
4 voices, built-in speaker
SIZE / WEIGHT
Unknown
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)
