From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: Re: DEC PC??? Article-I.D.: ucb.1067 Posted: Wed May 12 16:07:33 1982 Received: Thu May 13 03:43:49 1982 >From PERILLI@Afsc-Hq Wed May 12 16:07:01 1982 I'm at DECUS now. Heres the scoop on the DEC PC: There are three models: The Rainbow 100, the DECMATE 2 and the Professional 300. The Rainbow has Z80 and 8088 processors and will run either CP/M 80 or CP/M 86 software and automatically recognize the "flavor" of the program being run and use the appropriate CPU. Video is full VT102 compatible including 132 cols. System comes with 64KB RAM and is expandable to 256KB. Disk storage is 400KB per floppy (5MB Winchester optional). Also optional is bit map graphics (800x240 pixels) and color. The keyboard is totally new and is fantastic. The CRT tilts to desired viewing angle. Cost is about $3250 with 64K and 2 floppies. I think it's a winner! The DECMATE 2 is a PDP-8 based product in the same packaging that runs DEC's office software. You can get a Z80 card for it to run CP/M. The Professional 300 is LSI-11/23 based and runs a subset of 11M. Once again the packaging is identical. Systems will be available in the fall thru DEC and Computerland. I think DEC has really put the pressure on IBM with this one. ---Chuck -------