[SunRescue] S100 BUS

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, May 26, 2001 at 20:19:14 (+0100), Kevin Lee wrote: ]
> Subject: [SunRescue] S100 BUS
>
> I actually owned a working Northstar in Canada over 15 years ago. It did  use
> the wierd hard sector format floppies.   It was an S100 BUS machine. I  loved it
> It even came with a FORTRAN/COBOL compiler, and of course BASICA.  CPM a 
> nice OS.
> 
> AH....S100 BUS machines those were the days.   I really miss my 
> OSBOURNE & KAYPRO SNIFF.....

The first computer I ever used was a Sol-20 with dual Northstar floppy
disks and Northstar BASIC.

It had 56KB static RAM and a 64x16 display terminal!

We eventually even got a UCSD Pascal system for it!  Oh bliss!  Oh Joy!

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							Greg A. Woods

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