<The local N* users must have figured that out eventually. One of them got
<together with the guy who owned the Champion software outfit and started a
<users group for the "superbrain" computer which was a complete system
<packaged in what looked like a desktop terminal. I know that at least thi
<one guy still had his N* after that.
I still have Champion (for dos) running at work. It works.
The only thing the NS* had wrong to most people was the controller in
the memory map. NS* dos was far to primitive for most peoples liking
but it was quite small. Most people I know liked the NS box for it's
ruggedness and general good behavour. What wasn't liked much was the
too small disks (~90k under NSdos, ~82 cpm for the SSSD controller)
and the hard sector business. The DSDD controller was much better
but, most people went with a good soft sector controller and CPM.
My #1 NS* went that route in late 80 when I got my first upD765 to work
with. Since the controller was reliable it went in an explorer8085
as a second system and eprom blaster. I still have those and a third
stock NS* SD system and when I finally get a good DD NS* disk I'd fire
it up as a DSDD system with the later controller installed.
Was it the best? No, it was pretty good and most people liked it as
a solid box.
Allison
Received on Fri Sep 03 1999 - 17:44:20 BST