18 Classic Computers Delivered, a beaut day.

From: Philip Guerney <Guerney_at_uq.net.au>
Date: Sun Mar 7 20:43:55 1999

Richard,
I will mail you a copy of the system disks once I work out how to make
copies. Give me your details.

This CPT 8525 came with CP/M and CBasic disks as well as some utility
disks, so although it might be a Wordprocessing machine mostly, it must
have been more generally capable.

Phil

 On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Richard W. Schauer
wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Phil Guerney wrote:
>
> > CPT 8525, an all-in-one 2x8" drive and page-view monitor
>
> > Of these computers, the CPT is the least known (to me). I can find only one
> > mention of it on the Web and that guy didn't even have a boot disk for it.
> > At least I have some 8" disks (don't know if it works yet, still got to do
> > the preliminary check-out before applying power). One of the floppies says
> > "Tandon CPT" on it (hand-written) and a sticker somewhere suggests it was
> > built in Ireland. I'd appreciate some more info on it.
>
> That would be me that has one without a boot disk. It came out of a (wet)
> Dumpster and I had to really dig to find the keyboard. I too would like
> more info; I had one guy e-mail me to offer the program disk for free
> if I could fix his 8525 and convert some files "to Pentium II format" in
> one week. I tried convincing him to let me give it a try but he didn't
> respond.
>
> Richard Schauer
> rws_at_ais.net
>
>
>
Received on Sun Mar 07 1999 - 20:43:55 GMT

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