Followup: Hazeltine "Computer"

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Dec 10 02:28:48 CST 2006


Well, I finally got around to prowling through the 5.25" floppy 
archives for the so-called "Hazeltine" computer diskettes.  I found 
'em--in the last 10 diskettes in the file(!).  In the meantime, I ran 
across all sorts of names of systems not heard recently, such as 
"Peoples World" and "Pan Asia".  

The diskettes contain only the legend "Hazeltine CP/M" and date from 
about 1982 or so.  The bad news is that the boot tracks contain a 
CP/M system image, along with CBIOS, but no clue is given as to the 
system name.  Looking at the directory, there was a disk utility to 
format and surface copy, but no identification there either.  There 
was also a copy of Spellguard and Wordstar--aha!  Wordstar almost 
always contains the name of at the least the terminal, if not the 
system.

Well, it does--but the terminal listed is an ADDS Viewpoint--and no 
system named. :( 

Bottom line is that I have nothing to contribute to the "Hazeltime 
Computer" legend--and, with the discovery of the ADDS terminal code, 
don't even know why the customer insisted on calling it a Hazeltine 
(but he did--I found the letter in my files.

So--shrug!  My guess is that the "computer, given the date" may have 
been housed in the same box as the floppy drives.--and that a 
Hazeltine terminal was connected to it.

But I didn't think that a Hazeltine had cotnrol sequences anything 
like an ADDS Viewpoint.

Cheers,
Chuck




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