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NorthStar Horizon

Starting out in 1976 as a computer store called "Kentucky Fried Computers," NorthStar had to change its name due to litigation from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Their first product was a Floating Point Math Board for S-100 computers. After this, they developed an inexpensive floppy disk system for existing computers, which quickly led to possibly the first computer with built-in floppy drives--the NorthStar Horizon.

With its handsome wooden top removed, you can see the heavy-duty linear power supply on the right side, as well as the two floppy drives. On the left is space for 12 S-100 cards to be installed. This particular system is packed with memory--seven 64K RAM cards for a total of 448K RAM!

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Ah, my first computer play was on a PDP-8L, although it was hardly a tiny machine, and had a TTY as a keyboard/monitor. And paper tape to load the higher level languages. I'll never forget what trou... (Read the rest)
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