Micro Five system

On 3 Dec 2007 at 12:35, Doc Shipley wrote: Time to dig out my PC Tech Journal product guides. Well, I see a System 5000 and a System 6000 in the 1988 guide and only the System 5000 in the 1987 one. Both are described as follows: System 5000 Multiuser, multiprogramming Memory: 512K-16M CPU: 80286 Graphics: Monochrome, Color Interface(s): 1 RS-232C, 1 Centronics Units sold: 5,000 since 1985 Cost: $2,450-$3,895 There's also a System 6000 with the same description but for: Units sold: 400 since 1986 Cost: $1,595-$3,005 The 1985 issues of IEEE Computer contain a couple of product annoucements for the System 5000, but nothing more recent. There's a System 3000 box in the Freeman PC Museum at http://www.pcmuseum.net; just select "Micro Five" from the "Manufacturers" search box. A little web research shows that the company hit hard times around 1987, ultimately being acquired by Samsung in 1988. Their chairman during that time appeared to be a "turnaround specialist" who later went on to head up Pick Systems. That's all I've got here. I suspect that those memory expansion slots could accommodate 16M tops. Another remote possibility is that they were LIM/EMS type memory or that they were otherwise bankswitched. Cheers, Chuck