Zilog Zeus

[Dave McGuire]

On May 8, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Jeff Jonas wrote:
>> does anybody have information/source code/anything
>> about the Zilog Zeus System? It is a System III Unix derivate
>> running on a Z8001 16bit CPU
>
> Gaaah, it's coming back to haunt me!
> The NJ Computer Museum has a Zilog System 8000 model 21
> what's probably running that!

   That may actually be one of my old systems.  I got three of them  
in the late 80s, kept two of them for a few years, then sent them  
along to new homes.

   Exxon Office Systems had a large facility near Princeton, NJ,  
where a lot of System 8000 work was done.  My systems came indirectly  
from that facility.

>> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
>> I ran a Zilog System 8000 running Zeus daily
>> for quite a while back in the late 1980s.
>
> But did you get to peek into the kernel
> or use the maintenance programs?

   Nope...just userland programming.

>> I'd love to hear what people have as well...
>> I remember "porting" an RM/COBOL system for a doctor's office
>> from a CP/M system to ZEUS and loving the system.
>> I've never seen any on the collector/used market
>
> I remember seeing 2 on the back of an old pickup truck,
> for sale, at the Trenton Computer Fest in the late 80s.
> Talk about a fall from grace!

   Was it a short rack and a tall rack?  If so, those were likely mine.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL