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by ejona86
804 days ago
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> ... CP/M for the in-development Vector 4. Switching would potentially mean redesigning the next line of machines. The Vector 4 and 4-S did receive MS-DOS 2.0 support at some point. I have a working Vector 4 with MS-DOS, and this floppy[1] looks to be for the 4-S. Although larger changes would have been needed to become more "IBM compatible" (of which 4-S was a step). > They rejected her plan to develop a new machine that would focus on networking and telecommunications, which she saw as the future of computing. Vector was one of the first shipping a product using twisted-pair networking[2]. It seems that didn't make much of a splash; very little information is available. It was a S-100 board, which maybe limited market appeal by that time. 1. https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29115
2. https://groups.google.com/g/s100computers/c/Q8BUj8xHp5E/ (my post) |
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Yeah, I think like everything their issue (with hindsight) was mostly that they needed to be faster on the changes across the board to survive.
I don't really blame them for missing that window. It was so small to begin with thanks to IBM.
I'll be covering IBM and Don Estridge next.