Altos 8000acs
Description | |
Manufacturer | Altos |
Model | ACS 8000-2 |
Date Announced | 1979 or 1980 |
Date Canceled | |
Number Produced | |
Country of Origin | USA |
Price | |
Current Value | $250-$500 |
Specifications | --- |
Processor | Zilog Z80 |
Speed | 4 MHz |
RAM | 32-64K |
ROM | Unknown |
Storage | |
Expansion | None |
Bus | None |
Video | |
I/O | Two serial, one parallel |
OS Options | CP/M, MP/M |
Notes | There were 4 models of the ACS8000:
ACS8000-1 had two Single Sided, Single Density 500K 8" floppy drives. ACS8000-2 had two Single Sided, Double Density 1MB 8" floppy drives. ACS8000-3 had two Double Sided, Single Density 1MBK 8" floppy drives. ACS8000-4 had two Double Sided, Double Density 2MB 8" floppy drives. |
Related Items in Collection | Televideo 950 terminal, tons of software including original copies of MS FORTRAN, Wordstar and others. |
Related Items Wanted | Hard drive subsystem, additional software |
Altos was a manufacturer of "standard" Z-80 systems. The Altos ACS 8000-2 in my collection was a later product of the company. The chassis is fairly simple with a single board Z-80 based computer running at 4 Mhz, a pair of Shugart drives (mounted upside down!) and 64K of RAM. The "-2" in the name means that this configuration has two single-sided, double-density drives installed.
The computer will run either CP/M (it came with version 2.21 set up for the hardware) or MP/M.
This machine came with a ton of documentation, software and a Televideo terminal (in need of refurbishment). It also came with two copies of WordStar and one of Microsoft Fortran.