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From: ac959@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ed Grey)
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Subject: TeleVideo 1603
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Date: 10 Jun 91 08:53:26 GMT
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  I have a Televideo model TS-1603 that I aquired a few years ago, and
just recently have renewed interest in setting it up. It is a CPM
machine with Two half height floppys, a 14" monitor and I think 128K
ram ( It has been a while; I not possitive about the ram size).

 Anyways, Does anyone in netland know of this machine? Will this machine
run some of the earlier DOS software? If not, is there some sort of
conversion program to allow this? Where can I find a mouse and driver
software for this unit. In general, Is this machine worth booting up
and spending some money on. I am trying to expand my computational-
horizons and figure that this machine should be capable of providing
me with some hours of programming enjoyment.

   Any information would be useful and greatly appreciated!!

                                  Ken Smith
                                < kens@net,com>

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Ken,

I am familiar with (though I've never seen one) the TeleVideo 
1603.  It is a 16 bit computer, so it would run the CP/M-86 
flavor of CP/M (an important distinction when looking for 
software).  It will also run an early version of IBM PCDOS 
(probably 2.0 or some such).  It is expandable to 256K RAM.

I hope that this info was of some help.  Take care.

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