scotth@tekmdp.UUCP (Scott Herzinger) (09/20/83)
Anybody have any experience with the Micromate $995 cp/m+ (3.0) system?
It's listed in "What's New" in June, 1983 BYTE, p 487. Comes with a bunch
of software, one 390k floppy, 128k ram, and lots of ports for hooking on
peripherals.
Looks like it could be a good way to make a terminal intelligent, local
storage, etc, plus all the cp/m advantages, for only $1k.
IF it's reliable, serviceable, etc.
I'd like to hear from anyone with more info, especially personal experience.
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Scott Herzinger
Tektronix, Inc.
PO Box 4600, MS 92/525
Beaverton, OR 97075
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--wm@tekchips.UUCP (09/20/83)
Who needs a Micromate for $995? I have the phone number of a guy in Portland who will sell you a Morrow MD2 (2 disk drives, not one, all the software you would ever want) for $1054. wm
BEC.SHAPIN@usc-ecl@sri-unix.UUCP (09/27/83)
From: Ted Shapin <BEC.SHAPIN@usc-ecl> I bought a Micromate from PMC and have had no trouble with it. A friend also bought one and had a bad disk drive. He sent it back and they replaced the drive and used it for a while but something else went bad and he sent it back again. When this unit was first announced at CP/M 83, it was offered for $500. I bought mine at the West Coast Computer Faire fro $695. At those prices it was a good buy. At the present prices, I don't think so. Mine came with CP/M 3.0 and TMAKER II, a combined word-processor, spread sheet program. The BIOS source is supplied and it is a full implementation of banked CP/M (128K memory). However, I think I would rather have ZCPR and CP/M 2.2. THey have just announced a separate 2-drive box for $895 and a hard disk for $18XX? Ted Shapin. -------