Cromemco Information

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Sat Nov 15 13:04:15 2003

Atari utilized Cromemco Z2's inhouse for development of everything from 2600
to 5200 to 800 software, they had hundreds of them, they were one of
Cromemco's largest buyers, I have one of the original Z2 developer stations
with all the custom S100 boards Atari designed for development, I plan to
display it at Phillyclassic 5 this coming March (www.phillyclassic.com) and
if there is ever another VCF East (2.0?) I will bring it there as well, I'm
trying to resurrect some old RSTS 7.1 code, but I am looking for an 11/73 or
11/83 with an RD54 or similar so I can hook up my RL02 to it and boot from
these RSTS RL02's I have, they have all the developer S/W on them and then I
can connect up the Z2 to it and resurrect an original Atari Cromemco
developers Station.



Curt


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Subject: Re: Cromemco Information


> I worked with a Cromemco (model unknown) that was packaged as a LiveLine
> I, an early television weather graphics computer supported by Accuweather.
>
> I remember every time we had a lightning strike I'd buckshot the I/O board
> with new UARTS, 1488/1489's, and any other plug-in chip, and get it
> working again. The ultimate kicker was having to replace the 20 meg HD
> with a proprietary drive for over $1000, and that was in the early 90's.
> >From the frying pan we jumped into the fire, having purchased an Amiga
> 4000 and Video Toaster about a year before Commode Door went out of biz.
> Lightning would get into it and we had to buy a COMPLETE new box, as parts
> were not available. Did that twice.
>
> Soome management types would never learn.
>
> Gary Hildebrand
> St. Joseph, MO
>
> > I just recently acquired a Cromemco Z-2D (don't yet have all the
> > necessary accessories and peripherals to test it)... and I'm curious as
> > to how many of these were made.
> >
> > I know they were produced in 1977, but aside from the information from
> > old-computers.com, I know relatively little about it.
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be much interest surrounding them, as I had
> > trouble finding much on the web.
> >
> > Anything any of you could tell me about this (especially how many were
> > produced, how many are estimated to still be around, etc) would be
> > really cool.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ~Donald Nova
> > Don at NovaNow.net
> >
>
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