28 Feb
1998
28 Feb
'98
2:14 a.m.
<I found a XEROX 820 in a trift store today. Can
anyone tell me what it is
<It has a base unit with a built in monitor. It has four ports on it. One
<connects to a daul 5 1/4" disks drives in an external box. Another connec
<to a separate keyboard. The other two are for a serial port and printer p
Z80 based CP/M engine. When xerox got out they sold off the stocks of
boards and they were the hackers joy.
This reminds me of something I've been wondering, how closely related was
the Xerox 860? I had to use one for a while, and hated every minute of it.
Of course that might have had something to do with the version of the Word
Processor that it had, and the fact I preferred the WP on the Harris
Minicomputer.
Zane
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