On Dec 1998 13:05:24 -0600, Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>Ok here's one for all those of you familiar with the older IBM iron. I
>>have just fallen into a unit that looks much like a TRS-80 model 3 or 4
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That's the somewhat famous Datamaster. I have one, and I have some
diskettes, but I have a bad ROM, so it doesn't boot.
The Datamaster is a desktop office machine. From what I understand, it did
word processing and accounting functions. It has a built-in BASIC
interpreter, so you can do some programming. It's based on the 8085 (Intel
house numbered). I can't seem to find the correspondence that I had with the
guy I got mine from, but his wife worked on the development team. The 23 was
the immediate predecessor to the PC.
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