The Ultimate Orphan?

How would you like a dirt-cheap computer system that has a real keyboard, high-res (256×192) or very-high-res (640×256) screen display, runs fast, has oodles of memory (typically 256K), hardware options up the gazpp, and firmly yet gracefully thumbs its nose at Big Blue?

What if this computer had TONS of public-domain software and shareware available for it? What if there were literally columns of support literature available?

Well, if you’re a true-blue ZX fancier with a greater-than-average touch of the Scotsman (or Bavarian), then read on. Such computers are almost literally there for the taking!

I’m talking about CP/M, the most popular operating system available before IBM decided to force its own (in my opinion far inferior) ‘standard’ for disk operating systems. In the aftermath of IBM’s idea of a Brave New World, literally thousands of beautiful CP/M machines have acquired the status of ‘computer orphan.’