zilog system 8000

[Josh Dersch]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:53 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/292646012304
>>
>> local pickup only
>>
>> the reserve is >$1500
>>
>
> ROTFL
> A very big and expensive door stopper without OS tapes.
> But most importantly: the CPU board is missing!
> The card in slot 2 appears to be an additional SIO card.
>
> This is a model 20, quite low-end. We have a model 32 (much rarer, I
> haven't found anyone else with a model 32), but it is non-functional
> because I have no tapes. The SMD disk has too many errors to recover a
> functional system.
>


There's a Model 31 at LCM+L (used to be mine).  If anyone ever does recover
media for these things, it'd be nice to get it running...

- Josh



>
> Christian
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