cp/m box for software

Emanuel, An Amstrad PCW8256 / 8512 might be a good candidate, if it had the Serial/Parallel interface included. The printer that came with it was a dumb Tandy DMP-100 compatible; the printer's smarts were built onto the CPU card. If you want to use any other parallel printer, the interface is required. Ditto for using a modem or other serial device. (Plans are available for a DIY interface) The 3" drives can be replaced by 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" drives. They run CP/M Plus, on a 4MHz Z80A; WordStar/DBase II run fine on it. The two discs that shippedth it have a dedicated Word Processor program (LocoScript), and 3 sides of CP/M stuff. A guy named Harley Ristad created a set of CP/M discs with a bunch of utilities and info included. He called them his Basic Introduction To CP/M Hacking discs. I had a lot of fun with my (3) PCWs, and learned an enormous amount about CP/M while tinkering with them. If you live anywhere near Tucson, I'd be glad to give you one. My wife wants them gone, and I refuse to throw them away while they still work. Jim -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of emanuel stiebler Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:49 AM To: Classic Computers Mailing List Subject: cp/m box for software Hi all, did a little work on cp/m in the good old days, and thinking about getting at least one machine up again. As it would be mostly for having fun with the z80 again (or 8085, z180, z280?), I'm probably not interested too much in having any of the collector grade machines. So, the question is, what is the best cp/m machine for playing with the software ? cheers & thanks