North Star Horizon

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sun Jan 10 12:56:01 1999

On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Victor the Cleaner wrote:

> CP/M was available, but not the stock OS. North Star (originally Kentucky
> Fried Computers - swear to god) designed their own unique floppy controller
> (it was their entry into the S100 market) and had a proprietary OS to go
> with it. The controller was a full S100 board to run the 5" drives alone,

Anyone have any hardware with the old Kentucky Fried Computers company
name on it? I guess the story is that Kentucky Fried Chicken (now the
ever so chicly named KFC) sued them over the name and they had to change
it.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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