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From: tech@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Richard Loken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Altos 8000-10A: is a version of CP/M and any harware docs available
Message-ID: <1345@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 22 Dec 89 17:27:25 GMT
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An Altos 8000 has just appeared here at the office looking for a home.  It has
six apparantly serial ports, a 10M hard drive, a dead Shugart 801, and what
appears to be banked memory.  The machine is alive and boots off the hard drive
with some thing I am told is PDOS, a Pascal interpreter.

The subject line says it all.  Does Altos still exist?  Anybody have a real OS?
How about documentation?  One could create (slowly and very painfully) a bios
but not without hardware docs.

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