----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Blackburn" &lt;oldcomp(a)cox.net&gt; To: &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Digital Group equipment? ahead of the times in a lot of ways, but poor management and customer service killed the company in the early eighties. Also of interest, The Digital Group began by selling information and hardware to improve the Mark 8 Minicomputer. They sold a number of items such as video cards and cassette tape interfaces, and wrote all the software to support the hardware. It is interesting to note that the software they wrote for the Mark 8 is almost identical in function and appearance to the software that was included with all of the systems sold by Digital Group later on. For more info, see my web pages: based Bryan, what a great collection and web site! I remember the Digital Group well; I made a trip to Chicago in the 70's to Bally, the manufacturer of video games (I worked for their Aladdin's Castle arcades as a traveling specialist) to train some of their technicians. While I was there I met a fellow that had a COMPLETE 4 Phi-deck Z80 Digital Group system with the dress skins! I was immensely impressed with the system and ALL THE SOFTWARE! I couldn't believe how nice it was. I think that this was around 1978. I was then running an Apple ][ (original model, s/n 16,000 something) with 2 Disk ][ drives (s/n 600 or so) that I carried around in the top half of my Samsonite suitcase, it being more important for that purpose than to merely tote clothes around <g>. My first computer was completely hand built, but that isn't relevant here... Needless to say, the Apple ][ was somewhat underwhelming after seeing the Digital Group OS and hardware. Stuart Johnson