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From: aubrey@val.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,misc.wanted,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Data Point Computers
Keywords: Data Point
Message-ID: <311@val.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 19:04:05 GMT
References: <1987@virgil.UUCP>
Reply-To: aubrey@val.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh)
Organization: Video Associates Labs - Austin, TX
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In article <1987@virgil.UUCP> chuck@virgil.UUCP (Chuck Cartledge) writes:
>I'm posting this for a friend of mine.  He has purchased three Data Point
>computers at a flea market and is looking for any information or schematics
>about the hardware.
>
>The side panel information reads:
>	Data Point Corp.
>	9725 Data Point Drive
>	San Antonio, TX
>
>	Data Point 6600
>	Model 6640-001 Computer
>	256K Model
>
>Chuck Cartledge (804)498-1012                     chuck@virgil.UUCP
>EDO Corporation  (804)424-1004
>Virginia Operations
>814 Greenbrier Circle, Chesapeake Va.  23320

I worked for datapoint when the 6600 was under development.  For those
of you that remember such things, that was the same year that IBM
introduced some cheap, small storage media called a "Floppy" to
replace the Diablo cartridges.

As of last year, the address was still correct, and you should be able
to call them.  I would expect that an assembler is available, as well
as a smattering of (business type) languages.  Much of their language
support is custom, since such CPU's as the 8008 did not exist then,
and in fact are derivative of Datapoints CPU architecture.

A CTOS existed, and possibly is still available.  Additionally, there
should be LAN hardware support available, since they developed
a LAN in about '75.  ARCNet, if I remember correctly.

I believe that there is still a following in the business community,
so this isn't necessarily an 'orphan.'  It may even turn out that
it is a currently supported product.

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