Pied Piper by STM Electronics Corp - the review in brief

Pied Piper Communicator 1 Specs: (eep - it cost ukp1000 in 1984!) Processor: Z80A RAM: 64K plus 2K screen memory ROM: 2K bootstrap, 2K character generator Text screen: 80x40 or 40x24 Graphics: none Keyboard: 64 moving keys, full size Interfaces: STO bus and Centronics Storage: 820K 5 1/4" disk OS: CP/M It also came with 3 packages, Perfect Filer (database), Perfect Writer (guess) and Perfect Calc (guess), although the reviewer is most critical of them! He also whinges about the 80 column screen mode that he can't get working and also that while CP/M 2.2 is the OS for the machine and there's bundles of software available he appears to be wishing it came with its own OS to make it stand out! Odd. I can scan the article if anyone needs more info, but TBH the review wasn't written by a technical journalist, eg he doesn't go into any detail as to what the STO bus is....I think the tech specs came straight from Canada and the pre-release model he had didn't include such things. He DID however, mention the possibility of an external floppy, hard drive, RS232 port and modem. a a