CPT boards

Adrian Graham binarydinosaurs at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 18:42:26 CDT 2018


> On 7 Oct 2018, at 00:35, Jules Richardson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 10/06/2018 01:40 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>> could be part of a 4200 or a VM
>> http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/small-systems-at-ricm/cpt-4200-series-typewriter
>> since the date codes are early, i'd guess the 4200
> 
> Possibly, although there are quite a few ICs with 1976 and 1977 date codes which don't give the impression of being repair parts - I'm not sure what the lifespan of the 4200 was. Of course the Wikipedia article is quite light on details though, so perhaps there were other models not mentioned, or tweaks to the 4200's design to keep it 'current' as time went on.
> 
>> Mike might be able to ID the boards
> 
> I've dumped images of the six boards temporarily here:
> 
>  http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/c1.jpg
>  http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/c2.jpg
>  http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/c3.jpg
> 
> and finally the smaller "tape board" is bottom-right in this group of misc.:
> 
>  http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/c.jpg
> 
>  (I've no idea what the others are in that photo. Top little one is Sperry. There were lots of "industrial" boards in the scrap pile, though - CNC control boards and the like - so quite possibly not computer-related at all)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules


I’ve talked to a few CPT employees over the years, see http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/museum/cpt/ <http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/museum/cpt/> - if your haul is related to the 4200 I’ll need to add the pics too :) 

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