Andromeda Systems (ebay)

[Tom Peters]

OMG I used to work on a computer that ran some sort of multiuser CP/M (but 
not MP/M) that booted from an 8" floppy and had a winchester inside- I 
think it was an Andromeda. I think it was S100.

Is that possible? Is my memory failing?


At 04:15 AM 7/28/2009 -0700, you wrote:

>--- On Tue, 7/28/09, Nico de Jong <nico at farumdata.dk> wrote:
>
> > Looks like a box with 2x 8"
> > floppydrives to me. The texts next to the
> > switches are hard to read, but one of them seems to read
> > "BOOT"
>
>There appears to be another compartment below the drives.
>Also, there are D-sub connectors on the back that look like
>they are for connecting terminals or other I/O.
>I bring this up because of a few references I dug up on the
>internet that link Andromeda Systems with DEC-compatible gear.
>My guess is that this is an LSI-11 system, but it's just a
>guess.
>
>--Bill

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