Altos 686

From: Scott Stevens <sastevens_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat May 15 15:41:50 2004

On Sat, 15 May 2004 12:02:44 -0500
Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:15:56 -0600
> > "Bill Machacek" <bmachacek_at_pcisys.net> wrote:
>
> > I also once had an Altos 580, which was in a case identical in some
> > respects to the 586, except it was an 8080 machine with similar
> > terminal ports, and ran CP/M.
>
> <netcop>
> Linewraps, man, linewraps!
> </netcop>
>
> I'd have to pull it out of storage to check, but I'm fairly sure my
>
> Altos 580 is a Z80, not an 8080.
>
>
> Doc

You're probably right. I should have just said 'the 580 was an 8-bit
CP/M machine.' There weren't that many 8080 machines in the later years
of CP/M, i.e. the Altos 580 time period. By then everyone had switched
to the Z80. And Intel was hyping the 8085. Were there many other
machines besides the Tandy 100 that used the 8085?
Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 15:41:50 BST