2 Oct
2000
2 Oct
'00
11:10 p.m.
I had this machine offered to me, but it is too far for me to collect it if
anyone else in the UK wants it. Please contact Mike directly.
BTW what, precisely, is it - does anyone on the list know of them. In his
original message to me he said that it was big and that it had been used at
a local college to teach Unix to students.
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Regards
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike W [mailto:mike@corn2.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: 03 October 2000 10:57
To: Peter Joules
Subject: Re: You want old computer stuff?
no probs abt the delay in replying Pete, feel free to pass on the
details to whoever you wish.
I now have it here, its a Zilog S8000/32 Model 130, Ser no.
01871336, sold by Allied Business Systems of Portslade, Sussex.
It appears to be functional but as yet I hav'nt connected a terminal
to it so I can't be certain of this.
If you or any of your fellow devotees would like to have it
then I'd be
only too happy to store it until it can be collected.
Catch you later.. Mike W, Redruth, Cornwall
3 Oct
3 Oct
2:30 a.m.
At 12:10 PM 10/3/00 +0100, Pete wrote:
You're in luck. I just happen to have a copy of the '82/'83 Zilog
catalog handy. It lists the S8000/31. I expect the 32 is similar. Here are
some of the specs for the 31; 6 MHz Z8001A CPU and Z8010A MMUs as well as 6
MHz Z80B CPUs. The Z8000 is a 16 bit CPU with 16 general purpose registers
and an 8 M byte address space and can perform 8, 16 and 32 bit operations.
The operating system is Zeus, a Zilog enhanced UNIX. It includes a screen
oriented editor, a symbolic debugger and more than 180 other utilities.
Other features include a HFS, compatible file, device, and interprocess
I/O, Separate code and data address space, multiple processes per user,
user program address space of up to 8 Mb (C, Fortran 77, assembler. Zilog
offered BASIC, Cobal, C, Fortran 77, Pascal and PLZ/Sys for it. The machine
has up to 4 Mb of ECC memory (1 Mb minimum) and can support up to 24 users.
Optional 9 track 1/2" magnetic tape drive. I *think* it does include a tape
cassette drive as standard. It should have a 3600 RPM 32 Mb hard drive with
45 ms access time. The standard unit is 33" high and measures 19" wide by
24" deep and weighs ~ 250 pounds. Based on the picture, it appears to be
made up of four modules stacked on top of each other and has castors
underneath. The unit is white with a vertical black strip about 6" wide on
the left side of the front. There are expansion units that can be stacked
on top of the main unit. Th unit can run off of single phase 100, 117, 220
or 240 VAC. Maximum current at 220/240 volts is 4 Amps.
Joe
I now have it here, its a Zilog S8000/32 Model
130, Ser no.
01871336, sold by Allied Business Systems of Portslade, Sussex.
BTW what, precisely, is it - does anyone on the list know of them. In his
original message to me he said that it was big and that it had been used at
a local college to teach Unix to students.
3:06 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Joe wrote:
45 ms access time. The standard unit is 33" high
and measures 19" wide by
24" deep and weighs ~ 250 pounds. Based on the picture, it appears to be
made up of four modules stacked on top of each other and has castors
underneath. The unit is white with a vertical black strip about 6" wide on
Check this out:
http://www.siconic.com/crap/Zilog_System_8000_Brochure.jpg
It's the front page of the brochure showing the complete unit.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Joe wrote:
Hi
I like those futuristic looking terminals in the background.
Dwight
45 ms access time. The standard unit is 33"
high and measures 19" wide by
24" deep and weighs ~ 250 pounds. Based on the picture, it appears to be
made up of four modules stacked on top of each other and has castors
underneath. The unit is white with a vertical black strip about 6" wide on
Check this out:
http://www.siconic.com/crap/Zilog_System_8000_Brochure.jpg
3:01 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Peter Joules wrote:
BTW what, precisely, is it - does anyone on the list
know of them.
In his original message to me he said that it was big and that it had
been used at a local college to teach Unix to students.
I have one in my collection. It's about 3.5 feet tall. It's based on the
Z8000 microprocessor, and is intended to be a multi-user mini.
Nice system, worth rescuing. Not too common.
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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23 Oct
23 Oct
1:07 a.m.
I had this machine offered to me, but it is too far
for me to collect it if
anyone else in the UK wants it. Please contact Mike directly.
BTW what, precisely, is it - does anyone on the list
know of them. In his
original message to me he said that it was big and that it had been used at
a local college to teach Unix to students.
> -----Original Message-----
> no probs abt the delay in replying Pete, feel free to pass on the
> details to whoever you wish.
> I now have it here, its a Zilog S8000/32 Model
130, Ser no.
> 01871336, sold by Allied Business Systems of Portslade, Sussex.
> It appears to be functional but as yet I
hav'nt connected a terminal
> to it so I can't be certain of this.
> If you or any of your fellow devotees would like
to have it
> then I'd be
> only too happy to store it until it can be collected.
> Catch you later.. Mike W, Redruth, Cornwall
Is this Baby still available ?
There'S a chance for me to visit the UK next
spring by car, so I may be able to collect it.
Servus
hans
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