On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
> Today, I saw an interesting typewriter from the late '70s/early '80s
> called a Hermes 51 Level 4. It's an enormous 135-column daisy wheel with
> erasing tape. What is interesting about it is that it has an external disk
> drive, connected to it with an extremely thick cable. The drive is called
> a 'microdisk' according to the reference card. It allows storage of text.
> Looks like a scaled-down VHS tape rewinder. I have never seen any disk
> that might fit it. Does anyone know anything about this machine? This
Hmmm...I think I know exactly what disks this uses. A local surplus shop
has a ton of those for sale at $1 per 10. They look like 8" disks but are
more rectangular as they are more like 8" x 7".
> BTW: I also saw a Rainbow 100. Anything distinguishing it from any other
> CPM/MS-DOS machine?
It's a DEC for one. Dual processor (8086 and Z80, or is that 8088 and
8085? maybe 8088 and Z80?)
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