Zilog S8000 available in the UK

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Tue Oct 3 13:33:46 2000

  I used to have the rackmount version of this system (I don't recall
the /xx number, 41 maybe?)...it was quite a machine. Next to my other
main machines of the day (MicroVAX-II and a few 386 systems, this was
like 1989) it was a VERY fast box. Lack of networking was what killed
it for me. But aside from that, it was a pleasure to use.

          -Dave McGuire

On October 3, Joe wrote:
> At 12:10 PM 10/3/00 +0100, Pete wrote:
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> >> I now have it here, its a Zilog S8000/32 Model 130, Ser no.
> >> 01871336, sold by Allied Business Systems of Portslade, Sussex.
> >>
> >BTW what, precisely, is it - does anyone on the list know of them. In his
> >original message to me he said that it was big and that it had been used at
> >a local college to teach Unix to students.
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> You're in luck. I just happen to have a copy of the '82/'83 Zilog
> catalog handy. It lists the S8000/31. I expect the 32 is similar. Here are
> some of the specs for the 31; 6 MHz Z8001A CPU and Z8010A MMUs as well as 6
> MHz Z80B CPUs. The Z8000 is a 16 bit CPU with 16 general purpose registers
> and an 8 M byte address space and can perform 8, 16 and 32 bit operations.
> The operating system is Zeus, a Zilog enhanced UNIX. It includes a screen
> oriented editor, a symbolic debugger and more than 180 other utilities.
> Other features include a HFS, compatible file, device, and interprocess
> I/O, Separate code and data address space, multiple processes per user,
> user program address space of up to 8 Mb (C, Fortran 77, assembler. Zilog
> offered BASIC, Cobal, C, Fortran 77, Pascal and PLZ/Sys for it. The machine
> has up to 4 Mb of ECC memory (1 Mb minimum) and can support up to 24 users.
> Optional 9 track 1/2" magnetic tape drive. I *think* it does include a tape
> cassette drive as standard. It should have a 3600 RPM 32 Mb hard drive with
> 45 ms access time. The standard unit is 33" high and measures 19" wide by
> 24" deep and weighs ~ 250 pounds. Based on the picture, it appears to be
> made up of four modules stacked on top of each other and has castors
> underneath. The unit is white with a vertical black strip about 6" wide on
> the left side of the front. There are expansion units that can be stacked
> on top of the main unit. Th unit can run off of single phase 100, 117, 220
> or 240 VAC. Maximum current at 220/240 volts is 4 Amps.
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Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 13:33:46 BST