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NorthStar Horizons

NorthStar Computers was also as The Original Kentucky Fried Computer and made very reliable systems in the late 70s and into the 80s. The Horizon was a S-100 bus that was one of the first to offer floppy drives. It came in a wooden or blue metal case (see below) and the base level system had a 4 Mhz. Z80 microprocessor, 16 KB of RAM, one or two 90 KB 5''1/4 floppy drive with a controller card, a serial terminal interface and 12 S-100 slots. Software included the NorthStar Disc Operating System and a Basic interpreter allowing random and sequential disk files. Thanks Mikol Ryon and Clifford Flath for this wonderful donation!

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Welcome to the Northstar Horizon!
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One wooden cover and one aluminum
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S-100 16K Memory Card (1977)
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Does this give me a better memory?
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Disk controller
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Memory card
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Some documentation
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What you really needed: Z80 CPU manual
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Two Northstars together!
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DigiBarn cat "Min" with Northstars
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See Also:


Allan Lundell's video on the Northstar Horizon

See other shows
on DigiBarn TV!

Old-computers.com's site on the NorthStar Horizon

Our NorthStar Advantage

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NorthStar Horizon Ad

 

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