This is a french professionnal computer which had no success.
It was sold with two 5''1/4 floppy-drives (40 tracks, 360k each) but, could be replaced by 80 tracks ones.
A Winchester 5''1/4 hard disk (5 or 10 Mb) can be connected with a special interface, as well as two external 8" floppy disk-drives.
It also has a built-in battery (1 hour long) and a real-time clock built-in.
The Guepard was delivered with a Basic, an Assembler and two operating systems (New DOS 80-2.0 and CP/M+)
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Here''s an emulator: http://hbnguepard.free.fr/Emulateur.php
Saturday 7th January 2017
Mark0
Yeah! I still have it in my mother''s basement. It''s a huge thing. As a child, I spend hours typing small basic programs on it. My father bought it after spending some years(months?) with an acorn atom (do NOT bump the table with the tape player over it!!!). Le guepard seemed so modern and fast compared to it. I confirm for the colors : it is beige and brown. I remember the very firm feeling of the keyboard.
I think i''m gonna pay a visit to my mother soon !
Wednesday 14th May 2014
fiskpo
Le guepard $ the cheetah
Thursday 12th September 2013
Sakuri (MI, US)
NAME
Le Guepard
MANUFACTURER
HBN Computeur
ORIGIN
France
YEAR
1982
CONTROLLERS
QWERTY / AZERTY full-stroke keyboard, with separated numeric keypad and 15 function keys
CPU
Zilog Z80 A
BUTTONS
4 MHz
SCORE
64 KB (up to 256 kb)
ROM
2 KB (up to 16 kb)
TEXT MODES
Built-in 12'' monitor (mono or color) 24 x 80 / 16 x 64
GRAPHIC MODES
Unknown
COLORS
32
SOUND
3 voices
SIZE / WEIGHT
45 x 55 x 34 cm / 25 kg
I/O PORTS
Centronics, RS232c, Clock, Light pen, Tape, RGB
BUILT IN MEDIA
2 x 5.25'' drives (360kb each)
BATTERIES
CP/M+ (MP/M for multipost purpose) NEW DOS 80 2.0 (TRS-80 compatible)
POWER SUPPLY
Built-in PSU
GUN
IEEE interface arithmetic processor A/D and D/A converter Hard-disk and 8'' disk-drives Modem EPROM burner Track-ball, joysticks and mouse
(France, 84)
