7 Jan
2008
7 Jan
'08
3:08 p.m.
On the right, is it a computer, or just a dumb terminal?
There's a printer and possibly floppies in the background, but where do they go?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/1980something.jpg
Thanks-
Steve.
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7 Jan
7 Jan
3:24 p.m.
--- steven stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
On the right, is it a computer, or just a dumb
terminal?
There's a printer and possibly floppies in the
background, but where do they go?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/1980something.jpg
Thanks-
Steve.
That's a Xerox 820-II. It's a CPM based computer,
contained within the monitor enclosure. The floppy
drive is an external unit. The one I have, the floppy
drive is enclosed in a box along with a hard drive.
The external box is about the same size as the
computer/monitor itself.
Here's some info.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=487
-Ian
9:07 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
--- steven stengel <tosteve at yahoo.com>
wrote:
That external box appears to be sitting to the right of the monitor, just
behind that weird head-shaped thing. I'm impressed that it was able to
get so far away from the monitor. The cable is usually just long enough
for it to sit directly to the side, not kitty-corner like it is in that
picture
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
On the right, is it a computer, or just a dumb
terminal?
There's a printer and possibly floppies in the
background, but where do they go?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/1980something.jpg
Thanks-
Steve.
That's a Xerox 820-II. It's a CPM based computer,
contained within the monitor enclosure. The floppy
drive is an external unit. The one I have, the floppy
drive is enclosed in a box along with a hard drive.
The external box is about the same size as the
computer/monitor itself.
9:10 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, David Griffith wrote:
Whoops... I mean that the external box is the disk drive unit.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
That's a
Xerox 820-II. It's a CPM based computer,
contained within the monitor enclosure. The floppy
drive is an external unit. The one I have, the floppy
drive is enclosed in a box along with a hard drive.
The external box is about the same size as the
computer/monitor itself.
That external box appears to be sitting to the right of the monitor, just
behind that weird head-shaped thing. I'm impressed that it was able to
get so far away from the monitor. The cable is usually just long enough
for it to sit directly to the side, not kitty-corner like it is in that
picture 
3:30 p.m.
On 7/1/08 20:08, "steven stengel" <tosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
On the right, is it a computer, or just a dumb
terminal?
There's a printer and possibly floppies in the background, but where do they
go?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/1980something.jpg
That's a Xerox word processor, the printer against the back wall and
keyboard give it away. I'm not sure which model though...
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
5:57 p.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Can anyone ID this computer from the 80s?
On 7 Jan 2008, at 20:08, steven stengel wrote:
On the right, is it a computer, or just a dumb
terminal?
There's a printer and possibly floppies in the background, but
where do they go?
http://oldcomputers.net/temp/1980something.jpg
OT: the moneybox / piggybank in this photo struck a very vivid chord
in my memory - as a child in the 1970s I had one in exactly this
distinctive style. Mine was in the shape of a beefeater, although I
think my sister may have had one, too, in another design.
A bit of Googling reveals that these were made by "Carlton Ware" and
are also slightly collectable.
A bit more Googling shows mine alongside some others:
http://www.retroselect.com/Carlton%20Ware/Carlton%20Ware%205.htm
but if you're interested you'll surely find others more similar to
those in the photo.
Stroller.
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