Did you know that Adam and Eve had the first computers? Yeah... Eve had an Apple and Adam had a Wang! ;-) Douglas Wood Software Engineer dbwood@kc.rr.com Home of the EPICIS Development System for the PIC and SX http://epicis.piclist.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert A. LaBudde" To: Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: IBM PC chip > At 01:04 AM 4/22/01 -0500, Dale wrote: > >Myke, maybe you'll remember what I have forgotten. I used to take field > >service calls on one back in the early to mid-80s. I think it was 8085 > >based, used what I believe was something *very* close to the PC bus -- > >same connectors and similar layout. It was available in two versions, > >"Data Processing" and "Word Processing". The WP version ran OS/6 software > >from ROM, the DP version ran BASIC. It looked to me at the time like it > >had been the test bed for PC technology. My customers were havig one hell > >of a time finding software support, as IBM had pretty much orphaned the > >product and didn't seem to want to admit it existed. Do you remember this > >animal? Some salesdroid in the Cleveland area sold a bunch of them, I've > >never seen them anywhere else but a few small manufacturers and one > >synagogue there. > > There was an IBM word processing computer powered by the 8085 in this time > frame. Actually, it was reasonably popular and predated the IBM PC. I can't > recollect the name. Wang also had a competing system at the time. > > > ================================================================ > Robert A. LaBudde, PhD, PAS, Dpl. ACAFS e-mail: ral@lcfltd.com > Least Cost Formulations, Ltd. URL: http://lcfltd.com/ > 824 Timberlake Drive Tel: 757-467-0954 > Virginia Beach, VA 23464-3239 Fax: 757-467-2947 > > "Vere scire est per causas scire" > ================================================================ > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads