28-Aug-92 03:58:14-MDT,2315;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU by WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL with TCP; Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:58:10 MDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.63/1.43) id AA26090; Fri, 28 Aug 92 02:44:32 -0700 Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for northstar-users@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (northstar-users@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) Date: 27 Aug 92 18:47:43 GMT From: uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!milton!loomis@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Elaine Loomis) Organization: University of Washington Subject: N* Horizon for sale Message-Id: Sender: northstar-users-request@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil To: northstar-users@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil I have a Northstar Horizon (64k, 2 double density disk drives, Soroc IQ 120 terminal, PMMI internal modem, many disks, software; 2 serial, one parallel port) for sale. If you are interested, e-mail me. A follow-up post will detail the software, etc. (and I will reply directly if I get any response). However, here are some of the details (from memory): includes NS DOS, NS CP/M operating systems; CP/M based "Nevada" COBOL and FORTRAN, with original disks and manuals; an early version of WordStar, with original disks and manuals; UCSD PASCAL with orig. disks and manuals; many versions of N* BASIC with etc.; and over a hundred of the peculiar, hard-sectored diskettes that <> N* computers could read/write. There's lots else, but this is the gist of it. Tonight, I'll do a complete inventory for posting/e- mailing as I noted above. The system works fine, with one small glitch: a few of the keys on the SOROC terminal exhibit what I am called is termed "keybounce" -- that is, sometimes you get TWO characters instead of one. By a few, I mean literally 2 or 3. I fired it up the other day and typed a few score sentences on the order of "0123456789 quick brown dogs jumped over the lazy fox !@#$%^&*()_+[]{}\|" and so forth to test it. Gee - I wonder if anyone out there remembers this old system?! EL PS, since I suppose I should specify a starting price, let's say $500 or best offer (remember, this could have museum value some day!)