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Subject: Re: WWW page for questions on Xerox products
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In article <3mcp36$3rg@hermes.unt.edu>
           cmj0001@jove.acs.unt.edu "Christopher Mark Johnson" writes:

> I had a Xerox 820-II up until just recently.  I gave it to a guy that 
> collects old machines.
> 
> From what I remember.....
> 
> I had an option for two 8" floppy drives or a 8" floppy and a 10meg hard
> drive.

...or from what I can gather, twin 5.25" floppies.

>  It contained a green screen,...

Mine's white phosphor.

> ... which held the motherboard.  On board
> it had a Z80 microprocessor and 64k? of ram.

Correct.  Well more actually, 'cos there's the (paged) video RAM, too.

> The drive unit weighs about 50 lbs and the screen about 20 or so. You were

Yup.

> allowed standard ASCII display characters, with filled blocks to do graphics.
> My machine ran CP/M,...

Yup.

> but I also had a copy of MS-DOS 1.0 or 1.1.

Ah, well in that case it was actually an 820-II with the 8086 daugher card 
which itself had 128K RAM, and which makes it a Xerox 16/8 all together (or 
so I believe).
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