From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 14 7:27: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E0637B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA21719; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:25:56 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20001114081627.04785930@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:25:46 -0700 To: Peter Wemm , Doug MacKintosh From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Microsoft Source (fwd) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200011141250.eAECnuL07140@mobile.wemm.org> References: <200011121935.MAA26831@gw.doug.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:49 AM 11/14/2000, Peter Wemm wrote: >Dont forget the Tandy/Radio Shack Model 16. It was a 68000 based Xenix box >with a Z80 "IO coprocessor". It was commercially produced and marketed. >You could have three terminals, and (wait for it) 8 inch floppys (with three >external drives) and even a 5 or 10MB *hard disk*... :-) What's more, the Z80 could run CP/M or TRSDOS (which folks called "TrashDOS") in a pinch. Handy when you needed to run WordStar. There's a lot of good info about the Model 16 and the other machines that were based on the TRS-80 Model II chassis at http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.html --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message