Date   : Fri, 08 Apr 1983 2110-:00PST (Friday)
From   : Richard Fitzgerald <jazzy@aerospace.arpa (Richard Fitzgerald)>
Subject: ACCESS Computer

   In the April issue of MICROSYSTEMS, under NEW PRODUCTS, you find the
following:

   Access Price - $2495
   
  The built in printer delivers high quality printing at 80 cps.  Up to
132 chars can be printed per line on 8.5" paper.  In addition to the
96 char ascii set, graphics are available.  A program INCLUDED in the
software package allows various type styles to be used.
  The internal modem is a standard bell 103 type compatible.  It has a
direct line modular jack as well as an acoustical coupler (take your
pick)  It has four operating modes: manual originate, manual answer,
auto dial, and directory support. 
   The 7" amber screen is a full 80x25 line (the 25th being status of course)
Data and time display are available on the 25th line.  The screen has
user selectable attributes: inverse, blink blank, underline, double
underline, half intensity and normal intensity.
   The system has one parallel port which is centronics compatible OR
bidirectional. One fully implemented IEEE 488 port, and 2(two) rs232 ports
with software selectable speeds up to 9600 baud. 
   Two 5.25" Single sided-double density disks provide for 184K per drive.
An OPTION of Double sided-DD disks is offered for a total of 736Kbytes.
The controller will also support 8" drives in addition to the 5.25".
  The software packages consists of the following:
    a. CP/M 2.2
    b. Perfect Writer
    c.     "   Speller
    d.     "   Filer
    e.     "   Calc
    f. Fancy Font (by SoftCraft) provides fancy fonts (clever name)

    g. Mbasic
    h. CB-80
    i. Communications package (un-named)

This dounds like a fair deal to me, although I am now the proud owner of
a bouncing baby Heath H100 full color system (WITH microangelo boards!)
so I don't think it is for me, but others might like it.  The company 
address for those who wish is:

Access Matrix Copr.
2159 Bearing Drive
San Jose, ca 95131   Phone - (408) 263-3660

Enjoy... (p.s. All those with microangelo boards on ANY system, if you have
any tips for new users of such devices, I would appreciate hearing them.
I have only been able to do minimal things with it so far, and would love
to hear more frlmo those who know. Thanks...)

Rich Fitzgerald (jazzy@aerospace)