Playing With History - INFOCOM Catalog Numbers and Prices

RSS Bot · July 1, 2008

Here's an old INFOCOM price list I found among my Apple ][ items. It appears to be from the spring or summer of 1984. It's a fascinating snapshot of personal computers just prior to the emergence of IBM PC/MS-DOS hegemony. INFOCOM was straddling two eras. They had one foot in the past and one in the future.

Just look at all those CP/M machines! Some of that hardware is very obscure--like the Royal Alphatronic. I couldn't find any solid information on the Royal Alphatronic, and what I did find seems to indicate that it was something closer to a dedicated word-processor than a personal computer.

I'd love to see the 8" CP/M floppies, especially the packaging that accompanied them.

Codewise, were the CP/M game versions model-specific in any way or was there just one CP/M version that was given model-specific badging/packaging for each CP/M machine?