Roy Jenkins e-mailed me looking for a new home for his old "LSI
System-M-Three" computer. The message below describes this machine.
He lives in North Gloucestershire in the Village of Weston-sub-Edge near
the small town of Chipping Campden.
If interested, please reply directly to Roy.
Reply-to: Roy Jenkins <jenkins_at_weston-sub-edge.demon.co.uk>
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Roy Jenkins wrote:
> It is an LSI System-M-Three desktop computer with Tokyo Electric Daisy
> Wheel Printer. The software is CP/M based and includes very early
> versions of Wordstar and Supercalc. For years it was hooked up to a
> Telex machine via an RS232 port. There are something like a hundred 8
> inch floppies with it and a number of different daisy wheels.
>
> This system cost the equivalent of over twelve thousand dollars in
> 1981 and was used virtually every working day for eighteen years. It
> never went wrong ,never crashed and is still in working order. It has
> 64K (yes K!) of static RAM and two 8 inch floppy drives of 198K (yes
> K!) each. All the manuals come with it.
>
> It is British to the point of having a Union Flag on the panel!
>
> After so much faithful service I would hate to junk it.
>
> Roy Jenkins.
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