Date   : Thu, 24 Jan 1991 00:11:48 GMT
From   : usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!orchard.la.locus.com!fafnir.la.locus.com!dana@ucsd.edu (Dana H. Myers)
Subject: Info needed

In article <81598@unix.cis.pitt.edu> kwgst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
writes:
>
>   Greetings. 
>
>   I was given a computer that I have no docs on. It consists
>   of a keyboard, S100 card-cage, and power supply. It came with
>   2 8" drives. The computer is made by the "ProcessorTechnology"
>   and is called "SoI Terminal Computer" Model # 20.

   The Sol was a relatively popular S-100 based computer made for
several years - the first really good Trek game I ever saw ran on one.
Processor Technology was located in Emeryville at first, experienced
tremendous growth, moved to enormous quarters in Pleasanton and then
quickly went bust. Too bad, too; the Sol was neat 'coz it was essentially
what people wanted in an Imsai 8080 but sized to fit on a desk.

>   P.S. By the way, what is a "Tandy Model 16"? Interesting?
>   Someone is selling them for $25, broken... Just wandering...

  Yeah, these were 16 bit Radio Shack computers, based on the 68000
chip, and they ran Xenix and some mutation of TRS-DOS, as I recall, circa 1983.

  What a trip down sentimental lane. Afterall, I learned assmebly
language on an 1802 Elf computer....

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