25 Sep
2026
25 Sep
'26
7:48 p.m.
this was markets to travel agencies apparently
where i found these the guy had bought one back in the day so i gotta
continue to see if i can find anymore parts of it
On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 1:42 AM ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 2026-09-24 11:26 p.m., Adrian Stoness via cctalk
wrote:
i came across an interesting hord in northern
manitoba. still going
through
it
and came across a box with some weird cards didnt think much brought home
and discovered they were the cpu boards for something called the zapstar
made by zapsystem
witch i was able to get Jose Laraya the designer of the system to confirm
these were part of it then he suddenly passed at the end of august. he
also
worked on the mcm70
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~zbigniew/mcm_add.html
the boards i have and close up
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/687x914q90/921/BzjyY8.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/856x644q70/921/hXeG82.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1214x914q90/924/NiRn53.jpg
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/688x914q90/921/gJBVGi.jpg
what the zapstar looked like
http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~zbigniew/picts/Zapsystems.jpg
it had a colour monitor from what ive found out
Canada sure had a lot interesting companies, that seemed sell a dozen or
so boxes, get written up in some trade press, and vanish the next month.
Most where around 1980 and people jumping on the S100 bus or 6809/6502
clone.
