At 02:21 PM 7/2/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Sam Ismail wrote:
>>
>> I mentioned previously a discussion I had over dinner of some classic
>> systems. One of the systems mentioned was a Sony CP/M machine from the
>> very early 80s. Anyone know anything about this system?
>
>Well...from my Sony book they list in 1982 a "new desktop microcomputer
>system, "SCM-70" and its peripherals for video as well as business
>applications".
>
>Could this be it?
>
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I was just given a Sony SMC-70 last weekend by a friend of my son's that is
moving. The machine has 3.5" single-sided floppy disks, both black & white
and RGB video outputs, an RS-232 interface, parallel interface, and a DB-25
connector labeled "external drives". It also has a "supercharger" unit with
it that contains an 8086 processor. This "brick" plugs into the back of the
SMC-70 using a centronics-type 50 pin cable. According ot the
documentation, when this "supercharger" is plugged in, the Z-80 processor
in the main unit handles all of the I/O functions and the 8086 becomes the
default CPU. The system uses either CP/M (in Z-80 mode) or CM/M-86 (in 8086
mode). I have manuals and documentation for the machine, the Sony
applications, and the CP/M and CP/M-86 operating systems, but the original
system and applications diskettes were not passed along to the person I got
the machine from by its original owner. Anybody have any idea where I could
get at least the OS for this thing? It looks like a neat little machine.
Kenneth L. Marshall
Research Engineer, Optical Materials
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
University of Rochester
250 East River Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone:(716)-275-8247
Fax: (716)-275-5960
Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 11:35:46 BST