What's in a No Name Computer?

From: Edwin P. Groot <epgroot_at_ucdavis.edu>
Date: Thu May 24 00:38:08 2001

     Anyone know about the No Name Computers (NNC) company?
     I picked up a 20-slot S-100 mainframe model NNC 100 the other day and
I'm not too sure what to make of it since my only S-100 experience is a
Heath/Zenith Z-100. Did NNC market computer systems, or just the box of
slots?
     The box has some boards, which were not seated in the slots. From
lowest to highest slot number they are:
CompuPro INTERFACER 4
CompuPro CPU 8085/88
CompuPro SYSTEM SUPPORT 1
CompuPro RAM20
CompuPro RAM20
CompuPro DISK 1 with 'BOOT CD/M.B' ROM

     I assume this machine has enough intelligence to boot a floppy, so a
bootstrap doesn't have to be keyed in. Do you think it has enough
intelligence to differentiate SS/DS and SD/DD drives? I also picked up
some 8" floppies, but none of them say No Name Computers! The various
labels are: Big Board CP/M, WordStar, SuperCalc, Typing Tutor, Easy Flow,
SpellGuard, Vedit, SpellStar, ARC, dBaseII, DataStar, Rainbow BASIC,
Rainbow Pascal, Cromemco CDOS, X-8, Turbo Pascal, SIG-M BigBoard, and Mix
C. Do any of these seem likely candidates to boot this computer?
     Any help would be much appreciated!

    Edwin
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 00:38:08 BST