Re: North Star Advantage

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From: rwe... RANDY S WELCH
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 06:07

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In article <84...@ucrmath.ucr.edu> star...@ucrmath.ucr.edu (aaron greenwood) writes:

   A friend of mine bought a pc at a swap meet for $10.00.  The crt, keyboard,
   cpu, and two 5.25 inch floppy drives are all in one housing.  On the back
   is the following information.  It looks like a collectors item.

   North Star Advantage
   SN 029218
   North Star Computer Inc.

   When we powered up we got a message to put in the system disk.  I tried DOS
   3.3 with no luck.

   Does anyone know anything about this computer such as what OS it users,
   type CPU, ect.

   Thank you,

   Aaron J. Greenwood

If memory serves me correctly, that would be an old Z-80 based system
running CP/M-80.  And used hard sectored disks.  Ah the good old days...

-randy
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