Hello, after having had this system for almost 10 years, I decided I
can't really do it justice as a collector. I'm sure there's people
in the Montreal region (or of course further away if you're willing
to drive a bit - I'm looking at the Ottawa crowd here (Dave? Kirk?))
that are interested in this.
This is a Northstar Advantage System - working but drive problems.
The drives can probably be repaired with little effort, but I do not
have the time to play with it. It comes with this documentation:
Northstar Advantage Technical Manual (contains schematics)
Northstar Fortran-80 Manual (original blue binder)
GBASIC/GDOS documentation (Fat old binder)
MBASIC (Microsoft) documentation
Northstar Advantage User Manual (x2)
29 Hard-Sectored Floppies, including about 10 empties.
One of those is the original Advantage Demonstration/Diagnostic
Diskette (2.1.0 AQH)
5 are from the North Star Computer Society (PD software)
and the rest are various CP/M and NDOS format disks with software,
including F80, Small C, Turbo Pascal 1.0, dBaseII, Wordstar
Some of the disks may have been damaged by improper storage, and this
may have done in the drives as well - I suspect mold, the system
spent way too long in my parents damp basement. I'm hoping someone
can properly archive the data.
In exchange I'm kinda looking for Commodore stuff - ideally, I'd like
to get my hands on an Amiga 1200, a 1581 drive, or other uncommon C=
stuff. I am also always looking for synthesizer stuff, and HP calcs.
(BTW anyone got spare HP-IL cables????)
Or just convince me it's going to a good home :-)
Joe.
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