Replying to a message of John Guillory to Bob Ackley:

 JG>   Re: The Computer Retrochallenge
 JG>   By: Bob Ackley to Greg Goodwin on Fri Jul 09 2010 04:42 am

 >> If it has to do with having the oldest functioning microcomputer, I
 >> have a  NorthStar Horizon that may fit the bill.

 JG>    Awe man!  There was a time I'd done anything to find an 8" floppy
 JG> with     CP/M for that beast!

Mine uses a 5.25" floppy.  It's hard wired to boot from the floppy and
nothing else.
Once CP/M is awake it switches to the C: drive - a big, heavy 5.25" hard drive
that has a capacity of a whoppping five megabytes.

 JG>  I've got a Televideo 912c in the garage.... I believe    I traded
the North Star
 JG> for the guy to fix the Televideo..... 

I also have three Heath H-89s, two of which I built, and an H-67 HD for one of them.
The H-67 has a footprint of an original IBM PC, is about 8.5" high and
weighs 110
pounds - *ten* megabytes.  Price new was $5,999.99, I gut mine used - with
controller -
for $150 = probably 25 years ago now.

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