Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!umn-d-ub!dross
From: dross@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU (David Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Info wanted on AMSTRAD PCW 8256
Message-ID: <163@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU>
Date: 7 Jan 88 18:40:05 GMT
References: <7530001@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Reply-To: dross@ub.d.umn.edu (David Ross)
Organization: U. of Minnesota, Duluth - Computing Services
Lines: 22
Keywords: England
Summary: Evidence that CPM isn't dead

In article <7530001@hpcupt1.HP.COM> dclaar@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Doug Claar) writes:
>A friend recently purchased a AMSTRAD PCW 8256 "word processor." Upon

This CPM box was introduced in England about two years ago, and is one of
the most common machines in use over there, especially by writers and
other computerphobes.  It is a great value, achieving low cost by using the
nowadays dirt-cheap Z80, together with remaindered 3" (sic) disk drives and 
a bundled printer which uses the very same Z80 for processing. I may buy one
myself.

In England there are several magazines and scads of books devoted to this
machine; your friend's best bet is to go there :-), or to find a large
bookstore here that carries English computer magazines (not impossible; the
major chains' large Chicago stores do, for example).

Because of this machine, CPM is flourishing in Europe.


David Ross
Bitnet: DROSS@UMNDUL

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