5 Dec
1998
5 Dec
'98
1:06 a.m.
On Dec 1998 13:05:24 -0600, Russ Blakeman <rhblake(a)bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Ok here's one for all those of you familiar
with the older IBM iron. I
>have just fallen into a unit that looks much like a TRS-80 model 3 or 4
{snip}
That's the somewhat famous Datamaster. I have one, and I have some
diskettes, but I have a bad ROM, so it doesn't boot.
The Datamaster is a desktop office machine. From what I understand, it did
word processing and accounting functions. It has a built-in BASIC
interpreter, so you can do some programming. It's based on the 8085 (Intel
house numbered). I can't seem to find the correspondence that I had with the
guy I got mine from, but his wife worked on the development team. The 23 was
the immediate predecessor to the PC.
[ Rich Cini/WUGNET
[ ClubWin!/CW7
[ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
[ Collector of "classic" computers
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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5 Dec
5 Dec
1:58 p.m.
I have two of them, one in complete shape and one that has been semi-gutted to
include a broken crt neck. If you can give me an idea of the board or chip
number/location I may be able to get you the board or chips from the gutted one
for the shipping costs alone.
Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:
On Dec 1998 13:05:24 -0600, Russ Blakeman
<rhblake(a)bigfoot.com> wrote:
>Ok here's one for all those of you
familiar with the older IBM iron. I
>have just fallen into a unit that looks much like a TRS-80 model 3 or 4
{snip}
That's the somewhat famous Datamaster. I have one, and I have some
diskettes, but I have a bad ROM, so it doesn't boot.
The Datamaster is a desktop office machine. From what I understand, it did
word processing and accounting functions. It has a built-in BASIC
interpreter, so you can do some programming. It's based on the 8085 (Intel
house numbered). I can't seem to find the correspondence that I had with the
guy I got mine from, but his wife worked on the development team. The 23 was
the immediate predecessor to the PC.
[ Rich Cini/WUGNET
[ ClubWin!/CW7
[ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
[ Collector of "classic" computers
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/pdp11/
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