A new old computer has floated not my shop - a 1982 era-ish Archives machine, built in Davenport Iowa. Fans of Byte magazine might recognize the name from Jerry Pournelle's column, where he constantly praised the Archives keyboard and used it on his principle CPM machine. It is complete with CPM 2.2, all the manuals and software (Wordstar and Datastar) and other than some minor cosmetic issues and a slightly damaged keyboard is in good shape - Except for the real problem - the keyboard connector was cut off of the caable right at the db-25 connector. There are five conductors in the coil cord, four of which appear to have been used in pins 2,3,24, and 25 of the connector. I am pretty confident of one of the connections, but not so sure of the rest. The manual has pinouts for everything except for the keyboard connector.
Does anybody have any information about this really beautiful little computer?
Does anybody have any information about this really beautiful little computer?