System/23???

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat Dec 5 21:58:35 1998

I have two of them, one in complete shape and one that has been semi-gutted to
include a broken crt neck. If you can give me an idea of the board or chip
number/location I may be able to get you the board or chips from the gutted one
for the shipping costs alone.

Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:

> 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
> {snip}
>
> 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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