The List!

Bill: Here are some long-forgotten 680x classics form the late '70's and early 80's. I got this info from a bulletin published by a dealer in 1980: ================================================================== MANUFACTURER MODEL CPU RAM OS TYPE YR ================================================================== Smoke Signal Broadcasting----------------------------------------- Chieftain 511 6800 32k SSB DOS/FLEX Micro 79 512 521 522 (all 500 series machines used 5" floppies) Chieftain 811 6800 32k DOS86/FLEX Micro 78 812 821 822 (all 800 series machines used 8" floppies) Chieftain 9811 6809 40k DOS69/FLEX/OS-9 Micro 80 9812 9821 9822 (all 9800 Series machines used 8" drives) Chieftain 9511 6809 40k DOS69/FLEX/OS-9 Micro 80 9512 9521 9522 (all 9500 series machines used 5" drives) These are all SS-50 based systems. The last two digits of the model number merely indicate the number of sides per drive, and the density, respectively. I myself own the equivalent of a Chieftain 9522 - 5.25" DS/DD drives. It is all SSB electronics in a SwTPc cabinet! Their later systems had a MUCH more complicated numbering system; I'll give it to you when I locate the table! Things got pretty hairy when they started selling 8" and 5" Winchesters, as well as streaming tapes! These systems mostly ran OS-9. Later. Jeff Kaneko