Northstar Computer Price List 1982
Price list for the North Star computer from March 1, 1982. North Star Computers, Inc was headquartered in San Leandro, CA.
SOL Computer Price list 1977
Original price list for the SOL-20 computer from The Retail Computer Store in Seattle, Washington in June of 1977.
Cromemco CS-1 Instruction Manual
Cromemco CS-1, or System One, computer instruction manual from August, 1982.
Andrew Kay – Kaypro – Obituary
Sept 3 2014 UTSD… Andrew Kay, an early San Diego technology entrepreneur who founded Kaypro Corp. computers in the early 1980s, died last week in North County. He was 95. A relentlessly curious learner and inventor, Kay gained prominence not only as an early computer pioneer but also for his …
Sol-20 Terminal Computer
Roughly 10000 of these Sol-20 or Sol Terminal Computers were manufactured in either kit or pre-assembled form from 1977-1979. The company that made them was called Processor Technology Corporation in Emeryville California and was founded by Lee Felsenstein, Gordon French and Bob Marsh around mid 1975. Of course Lee Felsenstein …
Synertek SYM-1
The Synertek SYM-1 was a 6502-based single board computer produced by Synertek in 1978; it was a derivative of MOS Technology’s KIM-1. Synertek the company began life back in 1973 as a semiconductor manufacturer based in the United States. Their early products consisted of many different custom designed devices, such …
KIM-1 / MOS / Single Boards / Slideshow
MOS KIM-1
The MOS KIM-1 was a single board computer created by MOS Technology in 1976. The acronym KIM stood for Keyboard Input Monitor, which I’m sure their marketing department spent a good few seconds coming up with. The MOS-1 was developed out of MOS Technologies need to build a processor that …
Commodore Pet
The Commodore PET was Commodore’s first fully featured computer for the home computer market. Introduced to the world in 1977 the Commodore PET soon became a best seller in the North American educational markets and spawned a whole host of products based on its 8-bit microprocessor. This firmly managed to …
1541 / Commodore / Documentation / VIC
1541 Maintenance Guide 1984
This guide from 1984 covers the VIC 1541 disk drive. It is also applicable in most cases to the 1541 drive for the Commodore. The VIC 1541 was the first generation of the 1541. Commodore selected certain discrete components which were in the VIC 1541 and combined them into custom …