Quick survey on equipment - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Apr 2007

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Subject: RE: Quick survey on equipment
   From: "Ade Vickers" <javickers at solutionengineers.com>
   Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:43:18 +0100
     To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"	<cctalk
at classiccmp.org>

Dave Dunfield wrote:

   Some have
questioned the number of people on the list who   have CP/M systems.

 Lets do a quick survey  
 Way too many to list (or even remember), but you can see a 
 relatively up to date list (and photos etc) at: 
Damn, I was hoping to have the only Epson PX-8; as far as I know the only
CP/M system to do (micro)cassette tapes. 
I played with blcok structred microcasette back around 80-81.  Also the 
Coleco adam ram CP/M on casette.  There were otehrs but none portable
and that was a big deal with the PX8.

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 I also have an Osborne-1, and a C128 (which I think I
have CP/M disks for);
and IIRC used to have a set of CP/M disks for an Acorn Master - or was that
GEM, can't remember now.

Oh, and I've got a Sharp MZ-80B which I believe will run CP/M. 
Yes it do.

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 Shame I've not the foggiest how to use it. I can
get Wordstar running on one
of the PX-8s, but only because it's in ROM. I can do DIR and run a program -
does it do anything else? 
Excellent word processor (WS!).  The base system has enough "ramdisk" argumented

by plug in roms (two) to be useful for many tasks.  If you have one
of the wedges that added "ramdisk" its usefulness increases.

Mine has the 120k ramdisk wedge and I have the three most useful roms, 
those being Wordstar, Basic and CP/M utilties.  I keep a amateur radio 
logging datadase on it (written in basic) both to prove usfulness
and also because the RFI output is far lower than many PC laptop beasts.
It doesn't hurt that the battery life (with good nicads) far exceeds a 
lot of laptops.

Allison