Rescue opp in Boston

[EvanK]

Just passing this one along for whoever's interested.

>>> Xerox 820 II with 8" floppy disks, CP/M operating system, Select Word processing, and a 630 Daisy wheel printer. It was bought in 1982 and we have all the manuals. It has not been turned on since we "retired" it in 1989 or so, but it was working at that point.

JoAnne Yates jyates@MIT.EDU

 

[flavio75]

8'' floppies!! Cool! I wish I had one for my collection... I think I only saw one or two of these in my life... I'd never be able to use them, but it'd be a nice vintage item for every computer lover.

 

[Micom 2000]

Damn. I lived in Boston for a couple of years. But I'm far too distant now.That sounds like one of the Palo Alto products. More important than an Altair or Imsai IMHO. S Dobbs stole the Mac Graphical Image concept there. Where the "mouse" was invented. Damn you urban sophisticates with easy access to such as this. Hell if someone on the list jumps at this I'll supply you with 4 virgin 8" floppies if that's a problem.

Lawrence

 

[Terry Yager]

The 820 is a pretty standard single board CP/M machine, not one of the more exotic PARC designs. The board was not even designed by Xerox, but a licenced copy of the Furguson BigBoard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_820

--T