Goupil was the old french word for fox (renard). The Goupil was designed to be modular. It could be used as a home computer but its maim purpose was to be used in French schools in connection with other computers, or as a small server thanks to its built-in 300-baud modem.
The system was composed of a backplane used as a backbone to connect various cards: CPU card (a 6808 with 2 KB VRAM), RAM card (56 KB), disk controller, I/O card (keyboard and Parallel Centronics), acoustic modem, graphic card (with 24 KB VRAM).
The Goupil 2 was sold with a monochrome or color monitor, both could run simultaneously.
Frédéric G.Marand reports to us :
The standard configuration had 16k RAM and 12k Basic in ROM. This Basic was quite.... basic, as it didn't allow to do much things : all display access, apart from PRINT, was calling the BIOS. There were no peripheral apart from the keyboard and the screen. Only one standard interface : tape interface (that I never managed to use). On the other hand, there were a lot of options available, up to a network disk for 4 stations (Corvus Constellation).
We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system,
please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.
Does anyone have any software or manuals for this machine please?
Monday 8th October 2018
Ross (United Kingdom)
NAME
Goupil 2
MANUFACTURER
SMT
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
France
YEAR
1981
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
Basic (12 KB)
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke AZERTY 102-key keyboard with editing and numeric keypads. 12 function keys
CPU
Motorola 6808 (Same as the 6800 with built-in ROM)
