Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:16:44 +0000 From: Captain Nemo Subject: Re: Which CPM systems are most popular? Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm References: <1827d25a31347fea$5830$1520955$70dd3a6b@news.thundernews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Pan/0.155 (Kherson; fc5a80b8) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:16:44 +0000 Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-StiSZYGekXi2lNO7JD6ZJfEXjxv6Uqcqic2GYqwWvDJAgkR6ekn/3Zp59MS045auEDQQgq2WaduqtRh!ZljDxiRJNUTaY1wUWkiR6C8M20MHfIdbVlPNdCqJgEAiUtORK0Z4b1N6OOKU8j6V8NMY1gsJ X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2231 On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:31:04 -0600, John wrote: > Every once in a while I see an Intertec Superbrain come to auction and > consider buying it. I was wondering what are the most popular, and the > most desirable (collectible?) CPM systems. I know the S-100 systems are > in a class by themselves. But I'm talking about the 'integrated > systems'. Like the Osbornes,Kaypros Superbrains, etc. > Does anyone track this sort of thing? I've never seen a list based on popularity. Osborne sold well, until they sunk their own company. Kaypro also did well until MS-DOS did them in. Eagle is another one people seem to like, but it seems that many of those machines never made it into this era. The problem is that CP/M machines were business machines. So even though they sold well, they didn't sell at the level of the TRS-80, for example. Also, the odds of us seeing one as kids was really low. I never saw a Kaypro, for example, "in the wild" when I was a kid. I saw ads for them, though. I mention that last point because many of us collect the computers that we remember from when we were kids - either we used them or lusted over them.