14 Feb
2004
14 Feb
'04
9:20 a.m.
I know the 820 ran CP/M, but I don't think the 860 did. The 860 was mostly
used as a dedicated word processing system. We sold a lot of them to law
offices; though IIRC there was some sort of legal billing app that ran on it
as well.
-- Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Merle K. Peirce
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:16 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Xerox Monitor
Yes, the 820 is a little fellow. The 860 is CP/M based, but getting a
system disk is very difficult. I don't think Don Maslin has one. the 860
is about 30 inches high with 2 8inch drives.
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
--
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
The 860 is a CP/M machine. Big sucker.
Are you sure about this? That would be news to me. You aren't thinking
of the 820, are you?