Over the last few days I have been researching on where this CMC International company came from.
I have been seeing advertisement with CMC selling Winchester harddisks for Porchse cars. I have also noticed most ads that have CMC also have the Intertec SuperBrain and then the CMC SuperFive, SuperTen and Super20. I also found some Floppy disks on ebay marked "CMC TARGA Operating System" Version 2.02B for CP/M 2.2, 10-1 config for SD II. Makes me feel like the CMC Super System II is a cousin of the Super Brain. I could imagine the conversation on making that deal:
"Here is what I want to do. I wanna take your extra Super Brains that are not selling as well as you want and we will call then the super system. and then put 'II' after it so it sounds new. We will slap our name on it and peddle it to dealers in the area"
Although the SuperBrain and SuperSystem are very different on the inside but that is just changing the keyboard/cpu design of the SB into 2 boards, which I think would be cheaper and easier to built then having a mechanical keyboard stuck to the motherboard.
How are CMC, Targo, Intertec and even Porsche Connected?
I feel like CMC never built computers or anything, they just did marketing kinda like how Costco has brands which are rebrands of other things.
If this is true then who built the computer and who built the boot ROM (which is what I really need). I have been learning as much as I can about assembly code, how z80 systems boot with the goal of making this computer boot.
I also found there is a Z80 in circuit emulator. From what I have found the guy doesn't sell them anymore but the parts are available. Has anyone had experience with these ICE devices, would that be an option I should consider?
Attached is a snip from a newsletter talking about using CMC parts to upgrade superbrains