Pied Piper by STM Electronics Corp - the review in brief

From: Adrian Graham <agraham_at_ccat.co.uk>
Date: Fri Sep 8 07:39:57 2000

Pied Piper Communicator 1

Specs: (eep - it cost ukp1000 in 1984!)
Processor: Z80A
RAM: 64K plus 2K screen memory
ROM: 2K bootstrap, 2K character generator
Text screen: 80x40 or 40x24
Graphics: none
Keyboard: 64 moving keys, full size
Interfaces: STO bus and Centronics
Storage: 820K 5 1/4" disk
OS: CP/M

It also came with 3 packages, Perfect Filer (database), Perfect Writer
(guess) and Perfect Calc (guess), although the reviewer is most critical of
them! He also whinges about the 80 column screen mode that he can't get
working and also that while CP/M 2.2 is the OS for the machine and there's
bundles of software available he appears to be wishing it came with its own
OS to make it stand out! Odd.

I can scan the article if anyone needs more info, but TBH the review wasn't
written by a technical journalist, eg he doesn't go into any detail as to
what the STO bus is....I think the tech specs came straight from Canada and
the pre-release model he had didn't include such things. He DID however,
mention the possibility of an external floppy, hard drive, RS232 port and
modem.

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