gonzalez@BBN.COM (08/16/89)
I have a NorthStar Horizon for which I have been attempting to obtain a soft-sector controller. I located one, but one of the conditions of the sale was that I had to take the whole computer. So, now I am the proud owner of a Cromemco System Three, with 64K of RAM, a parallel interface, and a soft-sector controller. It can accomodate up to four 8" floppy drives. It came with one drive (a PerSci 277), which is reportedly broken. So, now I need to locate a compatible 8" drive. The controller will take 8" or 5-1/4", but the OS is on 8" floppies. At least the ROM-based monitor will help me. The plan was to get the controller and drive working on the Cromemco and then transplant to the NorthStar. The Cromemco is *so* nice, though, that I may ditch the NorthStar. It's good to have a *standard* S-100 bus, too. So, does anyone else on the list have a Cromemco System? Is the company still in business? They had a UNIX knockoff, apparently. Anybody have a copy I could buy or duplicate? The supplied OS is supposed to be call compatible with CP/M 1.3 applications. Any applications? I at least need a terminal emulator/file transfer package if I'm to start getting stuff from the archives. -Jim. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Gonzalez ARPA/UUCP: gonzalez@bbn.com BBN Systems and Technologies Corp. AT&T: 617-873-2937 Cambridge, Massachusetts
winston.yu@f1.n250.z1.fidonet.org (winston yu) (08/19/89)
Sorry can't help you. I also have a North Star Horizon which is still running. The clerks in my wife's office use it everyday for the past seven or eight years. It has standard 64K a 5.25" floopy drive and a 5M hard drive. The hard drive is very sloooow compare to the new hard drive.
It has a filing handling system called FMS80. They call it a database (this term is abused too often).
Two years ago I bought a IBM AT clone for the office, but they get so used to the Horizon, that they refuse to use the AT clone.
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