A cousin of these devices, the NEC PC-8500 is a pseudo-CP/M computer. It has WordStar-To-Go built-in and it can be made into a full-fledged CP/M computer by adding the 32KB memory expansion cartridge and the floppy disk drive/drive interface.
Just an FYI. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Joe Grubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > He's basically built an emulator/VM that runs in OS-9. There was a lengthy > discussion about the finer details on the CoCo list, but here is one of his > videos demonstrating it running WordStar (wow flashback!): > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysn7Na60ZGA > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 08:50:14 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [M100] CPM? > > > > On Monday, June 1, 2015, Joe Grubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > If it doesn't, we need a clever developer who is very intimate with the > Model 100/200 architecture and the 8085 to port it :) Someone in the Color > Computer community ported CP/M to run under OS-9 on the 6809. If that can > be done, it seems that getting it to run on an 8085 would be plausible. > > > How can that be? > > I think typical CP/M programs require an 8080 compatible CPU. The 6809 is > not. > > -- John. >
