CP/M for Fairchild F8 : resolved.

[Allison]

>
>Subject: CP/M for Fairchild F8  : resolved.
>   From: Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel <jos.mar at bluewin.ch>
>   Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:03:24 +0200
>     To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>I asked around and, as many posters suspected, the  box was part of a 
>larger system : A Sentry IC tester, made by Fairchild. That would 
>explain the use of the F8.
>
>The row of DRAMs I thought to have seen was, at closer inspection, a set 
>of bipolar PROMs. Total real ram on the board : 4 x 2114. So no CP/M for 
>sure....
>
>Still, I have never before seen a floppybox with printeroutput !
>
>The CP/M disks (SSSD) are therefore most probably from another, unknown 
>system.
>

I'd bet they are from an old Intel MDS800 development system [big blue box].
They ran ISIS but CP/M was ported to them as the first system and standard 
distrubution CP/M for years after had the MDS800 bios in the text 
(CP/M alteration guide).

Allison