Altos

From: Innfogra_at_aol.com <(Innfogra_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon Mar 27 20:45:10 2000

In a message dated 3/27/2000 12:35:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
at258_at_osfn.org writes:

> I checked out our Altos, and the old one is a 580-10A, #43948. Apparently
> they made a lot of these little devils.
>
I believe the 580 is a Z-80 machine, not an intel 8080 processor. Another PN
used for the Z-80 is the MK3880P-xx where xx=speed & P=plastic case.

The '-10' indicates a 10 Meg HD. They could come with several different
brands of drives. CPM or MPM was usually the operating system. there is a
separate supervisor terminal port to administer the system. I think there
were three user ports and two serial ports, one for a modem and one for a
printer.

I had about 10 of these at one time. Sold the last during my warehouse sales.
I have had several up and running. They are easy. Plug a terminal into
console. Wyse 100 or 50 terminal emulation. usually 9600/8/N (Hmm I can't
remember the stop bits) Put a current limiter on the power line when you
power it up for the first time. Make sure it is warm (room temp) and not cold
from storage.

Paxton
Received on Mon Mar 27 2000 - 20:45:10 BST