Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:25:46 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Doug MacKintosh <doug@doug.net> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114081627.04785930@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200011141250.eAECnuL07140@mobile.wemm.org> References: <200011121935.MAA26831@gw.doug.net>
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At 05:49 AM 11/14/2000, Peter Wemm wrote: >Dont forget the Tandy/Radio Shack Model 16. It was a 68000 based Xenix box >with a Z80 "IO coprocessor". It was commercially produced and marketed. >You could have three terminals, and (wait for it) 8 inch floppys (with three >external drives) and even a 5 or 10MB *hard disk*... :-) What's more, the Z80 could run CP/M or TRSDOS (which folks called "TrashDOS") in a pinch. Handy when you needed to run WordStar. There's a lot of good info about the Model 16 and the other machines that were based on the TRS-80 Model II chassis at http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.html --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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