20 Jun
2001
20 Jun
'01
5:07 a.m.
Roy Jenkins e-mailed me looking for a new home for his old "LSI
System-M-Three" computer. The message below describes this machine.
He lives in North Gloucestershire in the Village of Weston-sub-Edge near
the small town of Chipping Campden.
If interested, please reply directly to Roy.
Reply-to: Roy Jenkins <jenkins(a)weston-sub-edge.demon.co.uk>
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Roy Jenkins wrote:
It is an LSI System-M-Three desktop computer with
Tokyo Electric Daisy
Wheel Printer. The software is CP/M based and includes very early
versions of Wordstar and Supercalc. For years it was hooked up to a
Telex machine via an RS232 port. There are something like a hundred 8
inch floppies with it and a number of different daisy wheels.
This system cost the equivalent of over twelve thousand dollars in
1981 and was used virtually every working day for eighteen years. It
never went wrong ,never crashed and is still in working order. It has
64K (yes K!) of static RAM and two 8 inch floppy drives of 198K (yes
K!) each. All the manuals come with it.
It is British to the point of having a Union Flag on the panel!
After so much faithful service I would hate to junk it.
Roy Jenkins.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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