Research Machines Link 480Z

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Mar 18 22:42:09 2000

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Peter Pachla wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >....This isn't a CP/M machine, but it is one generation
> >on from the 380Z, which I also used at school.
>
> Yep, that was the first micro I really got to know.
>
> We had a 380Z at school too. We got it around 1977/78 and it was a cassette
> based system running an early version of COS (Cassette Operating System) -
> the floppy disc and CP/M options weren't quite available then.
>
> Hours of fun programming in BASIC and CECIL....best of all was the front
> panel, we had no assembler until the CP/M systems (finally) arrived in 1981
> so it was the only way we had of playing with machine code (amazing how
> quickly you learn those hex codes when you have to).
>
>
> I'm sure I still have a set of 380Z manuals somewhere (BASIC, COS, HiRes
> Graphics Option etc) but my CP/M discs I suspect are long gone.
 
I have CP/M system disks for the RML380Z. E-mail me if interested.

                                                 - don
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