An other CP/M / MSDOS hybrid system. This computer had no great commercial success.
The Decision Mate V came with 128 KB of RAM, but could be upgraded to 256 or 512 KB with expansion cards. The serial and Centronics interfaces were not on the mainboard, but were added as expansion cards. An additional card with a 68000 was developed by NCR in order to use CP/M 68.
There were 7 expansion slots. An optional diagnostic card was available for slot 6. Otherwise, diagnostics were produced through 6 red LEDs on the back of the case, above the volume control.
The computer had two floppy drives, or only one + a Winchester hard drive mounted in the second bay.
A network called 'DecisoNet' was designed to link together several Decision V.
We had one, my dad worked at NCR then and could by one "cheap", I think around 2k DM at the time... *g* Awesome computer, somehow. ^^
Friday 8th February 2013
Mockturtle
I had one of that when i was a child. I learned gwdos and played a lot with ladder.exe !!! Too beautiful!
Friday 10th August 2012
Luca (Italy)
Si ... cuando vi por primera vez uno de estos, me pareció ver uno de los grandes logros en la evolución del hombre .... era verdaderamente sorprendente.... ahora lo recuerdo definitivamente hermoso...
Wednesday 6th June 2012
EdwardNEO (Colombia)
NAME
Decision Mate V
MANUFACTURER
NCR
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
U.S.A.
YEAR
1984
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None
KEYBOARD
Typewriter type 91 keys with 20 programmable function keys and numeric keypad
CPU
Zilog Z80 - Optional Intel 8088 or Motorola 68008
SPEED
4.88 MHz (8088) / 4 MHz (Z80)
RAM
64 kb, 128 kb, 256 kb or 512 kb depending of models (through expansion cards)
VRAM
32 KB (monochrome mode) or 96 KB (colour mode)
ROM
Unknown
TEXT MODES
40 or 80 columns x 25 lines
GRAPHIC MODES
576 x 432 dots
COLOrsc
Monochrome built-in display (green / black)
SOUND
Beeper
I/O PORTS
Centronics, RS232, 7 expansion slots
BUILT IN MEDIA
One or two floppy disk drives (320 KB each), 10 to 30 MB hard disk