The S/23 I displayed at VCF 5 (2 drives, 96K RAM) can be seen in the following
photo from the show, partially obscured, on the right.
http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/vcf5/david_cavenaugh.jpg
-W
> On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 23:13, Bill Allen Jr wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > are you talking about the sys/32?
> >
> If it can sit on a desk top and has a keyboard and green display then
> it's a system/23 (also known as DataMaster). It used an 8085 processor,
> had 128K of ROM and upto 128K of RAM. It used bank switching to be able
> to access that much ROM and RAM.
>
> It has a base of 32K RAM and one 8" floppy drive. The case could hold a
> second (both drives were vertical). The case design was similar to the
> 5120. Even though it used an 8085 all of the character coding was in
> EBCDIC.
>
> It ran a BASIC interpreter that was compatible with the basic on
> system/34.
>
> It was developed by IBM between 1979-1980 and was a milestone for IBM
> because it used a non-IBM processor. It paved the way for the IBM PC
> (many of the team that worked on system/23 went on to design and develop
> the PC).
>
> > i have never heard of the sys/23.
> >
> > i do have some sys/32 disks - not the ones you
> > mentioned, though.
> >
> > i still have the manuals (tech binders) with the
> > schematics and trouble shooting stuff and i may have
> > the sys/32 ssp and a few other disks around here
> > somewhere.
> >
> > i still have two sys 34's and one sys/36 in my
> > collection - one of the 34's and the 36 are rare
> > config's - they both have extended chassi's and extra
> > hard (disk) drives in them.
> >
> > the 34 has 2 hd's and the 36 has three hd's.
> >
> > it's really interesting that the 34 has 8 inches of
> > chassi added to it and the 36 has three feet of chassi
> > added to it.
> >
> > i do have alot of sys/36 software and some sys/34
> > software.
> >
> > if you do have a sys/32 - you can have the manuals and
> > software - just arrange shipping.
> >
> > i no longer have a sys/32 and no longer need the
> > stuff.
> >
> > Bill (n8uhn at yahoo dot com)
> >
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>
> TTFN - Guy
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 18 2002 - 09:15:01 GMT
