9 Jun
2003
9 Jun
'03
6:28 a.m.
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dave Brown wrote:
I'll have a nose around- used to be an awful lot
of APC-IIIs here- the
Telecom NZ fixed network is NEAX based (a line in electronic switches from
NEC) and the APC-IIIs were all over the place in the early days (15 plus
years ago) in use as terminals. But it's only recently the last of them have
That's how I got my APC III. It was sitting unused in the telecom
equipment room of the juvenile detention center in the next county over.
They had several NEAX switches installed throughout the county. I asked
about it and was told it was broken and could take it. It turned out the
contrast was turned all the way down.
It's a very solid CP/M-86 machine. I used it to successfully copy over
some files from 8" floppy to a PC over the serial port using PIP.
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