11 Oct
1998
11 Oct
'98
8:25 a.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
No, I don't recall the machine being plugged on the tube. But it was
in the Radio Shack catalogs which were at the time available from more
outlets than were Big Macs (hamburgers, not computers).
I recall mention of the Zilog box in a couple of magazines. Never had
any idea where one could be purchased, and I tended to visit damned
near every retail computer outlet in the Los Angeles basin at least a
couple of times a year to see what was happening in the rest of the
world. (Admittedly, I didn't bother with Sears, but I knew everything
they had there from other sources).
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Oh, the keywords being "mass-produced"
as in the way Eli Whitney
invented for rifles and Henry Ford improved for automobiles, and
"mass-marketed" as in advertised to the public at large, the answer
IMAO (life is too short to have humble opinions) is the TRS-80
Model 16 with Xenix.
I guess mass-marketing in the 80's meant TV ads, so did Tandy advertise
this thing on TV? BTW, it was mentioned previously that the first micro
port of Unix (non-DEC) was to a Z8000 box. Here's a 1981 brochure for
Zilog's System 8000 running ZEUS:
http://www.ifeb.se/obs/zilog.html