Micom 2000

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Thu Oct 24 21:55:31 2002

 Not in my estimation. Good score !!
 It went into production in 1976 and by 1981 had over 100 sales and support
offices in N.A. Among it's customers were NASA and Washinton Gas.
 It was marketed as a word processor but was capable of much more.
 It's a shame it hasn't had more exposure as an important historical item.
 One of the founders and president had been part of the startup of another
early company AES Appled(?) Electronic Systems which he sold and then
started up Micom. I ran across one credit that said AES produced the first
programmable word processor. After selling out to Philips he went on to lead
a company dealing in communication protocols.
 There were com programs for it (NASA had MICOMS linked up with their
mainframe), a modified MSBasic-80, a MathPac (none of which I have)
and a superior word processing program. I have a TRS-80 m.2 and the Micom
is preferable to "Scripts-It" and much better IMHO than the early Wordperfect
Wordstar, or Word that came out later. It has limited graphic ability as well as
subscript and superscript. I have 2 program disks "Word Processor" and
"Data Processor". Mine has a large Shugart 8" FDD and a quite speedy
Qume daisy wheel printer(with a humungeously large PSU). I have a manual
for it as well as some of their newsletters. Not much available on the net but
some data transfer companies still support it. Another list member, Charlie
Fox has/had a m.2001 and I've found but not yet contacted a person with a
site who once worked for them doing programming and system design.

 Contact me when you receive it and let me know what came with it. I'll be
happy to help you with what I can.

Lawrence

> Well, maybe I just scored an ebay bargan. I just "bought-it-now"
> for $30 plus shipping. A quick web search seems to indicate that
> this is an early (1975?) 8080 based small business computer. There
> is an old classiccmp thread with a few general messages about this
> box. Anybody want to talk about it... what software it runs, etc.
> Did I just throw $50 away?
>
> Bill
>


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