At 08:40 AM 3/29/99 -0500, you wrote: I looked throgh the XEROX manuals last night. There's a separate manual for 2.2, CPM-80 and CPM 86 and MS-DOS 2. 2.2 is the oldest in this bunch. Yeah I know but 128K is nice to have. I got new manaul and 8" disk with WS 3.3. Also D-Base II and some other stuff. > At least 3 word processing packages were avialable >plus business graphics, multiplan, quite a few programming languages. >XWP wasn't so great, apparently a primitive WordStar, WordStar was superb >if cryptic, and there was another nice one, a bit glitzy and modern for >my taste, but put WordPerfect to shame, but hey, even a blank screen does >that. Don Maislin may remember the name, he likes that particular >programme. Ran very well on 5-1/4 inch drives. > >There was a memory expansion available for the 16/8, but I've never seen

>The DEM-II is interesting because the card rack is very like the NEC

Do you know where I can find a copy of that? Do you still have any of your XEROXs? I think I have the CPU portion of an 820-II here but no drives (or the controller/daughter board) and no keyboard. The drives and keyboard should be a problem but the controller is. Joe > >On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Joe wrote: > >> Merle, >> >> At 10:24 PM 3/28/99 -0500, Merle wrote: >> >The 16/8 is an interesting machine. It came in 2 versions, the

>> >with 8" Shugart drives, a later with a DEM-II expansion case housing >> >5-1/4 inch drives. The CP/M-86 is not bad, but the MS-DOS is...well >> >MS-DOS. >> >> Not surprising considering it's only ver 2.0 . At least that's what I >> got in this load. >> >> > Incredibly primitive compared to CP/M 2.2. >> >> I don't know that much about CPM but this machine only has CPM-80 and >> CPM-86. How do they compare to CP/M 2.2? >> >> One problem is that >> >many were shipped with 128K memory. With the dinky drives, the

>> >are disappointing. The old 8" 820-II is a far better and more usable >> >machine. >> >> Better than the 16/8? I thought it was newer. How much memory did

>> 820-II have? >> >> Thanks for the info. >> Joe >> >> > >> >On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Joe wrote: >> > >> >> Today I went to see a couple of the people that I meet at

that he ago. :-( >> >> He gave me part of the stuff that he had left, I have to take a

>> >> (note capital) back to get the rest (estimated at two cubic yards but

>> >> complete machines). So far I've found lots of docs and 8" flopppy

opinion of 5.25" and >> >> 8" drives during alignment. Anyone have an idea of what one of these