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| NorthStar Horizons NorthStar Computers was also as The Original Kentucky Fried Computer and made very reliable systems in the late 70s and into the 80s. The Horizon was a S-100 bus that was one of the first to offer floppy drives. It came in a wooden or blue metal case (see below) and the base level system had a 4 Mhz. Z80 microprocessor, 16 KB of RAM, one or two 90 KB 5''1/4 floppy drive with a controller card, a serial terminal interface and 12 S-100 slots. Software included the NorthStar Disc Operating System and a Basic interpreter allowing random and sequential disk files. Thanks Mikol Ryon and Clifford Flath for this wonderful donation! | |||
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