Date   : Tue, 15 Mar 1983 20:13:00-CST
From   : mknox@utexas-11.arpa
Subject: Small micro-computers

A company I have dealings with is looking to purchase around 100 microcomputers
for in-house workstations.  They are currently evaluating:

o NEC APC

o IBM-PC

o Heath Z-100

o BMC

o TRS-80 Model-16

They want color and a UNISCOPE terminal emulator, but it isn't mandatory.  They
also want to run CP/M (but don't seem to know that there are different versions
such as CP/M-2.2, CP/M-86, CP/M-68K).  Right now the BMC seems to be the front-
runner because it is color and has the UNISCOPE program which apparently does
work.  I am familiar with the Model-16 and somewhat with the IBM-PC, though 
don't know of a UNISCOPE for either.

Any comments?

By-the-way, I handled the NEC machine a while.  It is not a bad machine, good
graphics, but the CP/M-86 implementation is the pits.  They don't even do disk
blocking/deblocking.  Heads load/unload every 128 bytes, making for one of the
slowest TYPE commands anywhere.