North Star Horizon [Rare systems] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 May 1998

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Shoppa &lt;shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Sunday, 17 May 1998 23:29
Subject: Re: North Star Horizon [Rare systems]

...
 > > > I'll have to finish that database. 
Oh yeah, just remembered the Compal-80
...
 > > > (mid 70s S-100 box, very small, I'm
sure some of the old hackers like
> > > Allison have heard of it though).
> >
> > Sure!  COMputer Power And Light.
>
> That's exactly right.  An obscure (by today's standards for sure, but
> don't know about back then...the references in the trade literature of the
...
 > era are scarce) company that made S-100 boxes in
the '75-'77(?) timeframe.
...

That's the wonderful thing about S-100 stuff; there were literally
hundreds of small companies etching PC boards in the basement and
selling them bare or with parts as kits.  With this *huge* variety of
boards available, what amazes me is that all the "serious collectors"
and "serious museums" (where "serious"="have lots of money to
spend")
insist on pure Altair boardsets or pure IMSAI boardsets when I sell them
restored machines.

Tim. (shoppa(a)triumf.ca)

email:  desieh(a)southcom.com.au
 desieh(a)bigfoot.com
 museum_curator(a)hotmail.com
Apple Lisa Web Page:
http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm

this is getting abit of track here but nobody seems to mind:
well im in australia and ive got some mechines that i bet you guys have
never heard of:

LabTam 3000
(from around 1980, Z80, 8086, huge thing with 12" greeney 8", 5 1/4" hard
drive 5MB i think)

Dick Smith System 80
(TRS-80 model 1 clone)

UNIVAC
(CPM box, looks like a terminal)

OSI C4P
(looks like a SOL termianl computer, dont know anything else about it?
anybody else know anything about it??)