10 Jun
1997
10 Jun
'97
4:32 a.m.
Im not rich, Don't have one. Do I want one? Help me out here? what is it?
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From: Kevan Heydon <kevan(a)motiv.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Sage IV...
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 1997 11:08 AM
Hi all,
I have just recieved this email offering me a Sage IV. I am not
interested as I already have one so the cost of shipping to here in the
UK isn't worth it. So if someone wants it contact him directly.
Kevan
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To: collector(a)heydon.org
Subject: sage IV
Hello, I own a Sage IV computer and have some word processing software
and spreadsheet software for the computer. I also own two amber
monitors for the Sage IV. If you are interested in purchasing these, or
know a source in the United States that is interested in this computer
equipment, please leave me a note on the web, or at CompuServe 76627,224
Jim Krasno (my wife is Nancy Nelson)
Jim
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10 Jun
10 Jun
4:44 a.m.
In message <199706101629.LAA10200(a)challenge.sunflower.com>you write:
Im not rich, Don't have one. Do I want one? Help
me out here? what is it?
To start with you can see a picture of a Sage II here:
http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/old_collection/manufacturer-sage.html
The IV is a slightly higher box as it contains a full height hard disk.
The CPU is a 68000 running at 8MHz. My II has 512Kb of memory but I
think the IV has more. They have a serial port to connect a console and
they also have a HPIB port. I only know them to run a the UCSD Pascal
system but it seems that they also have other software.
Sorry I don't know much more as even though I have had mine for quite
some time I haven't had much chance to play with them.
--
Kevan
Old Computer Collector: http://staff.motiv.co.uk/~kevan/
11:19 a.m.
Im not rich, Don't have one. Do I want one? Help me out here? what is it?
If it's the machine I think it is, it's a Sage 2 with a hard disk. A Sage
2 was a single-board (+ PSU and Drives) 68000 box with up to 512K RAM,
disk controller, 2 serial ports (terminal and modem), GPIB, and printer
port. It was quite nice hardware, and easy to hack about with (all chips
in sockets, schematics in the manual, etc).
There was a _good_ monitor in ROM (edit memory, registers, read/write
sectors, etc). It could (obviously) boot an OS from disk - the standard
one was (IIRC) the ucsd p-system.
Of course I could be thinking of some totally different Sage.
--
-tony
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