Uncreative Labs

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

I have a CPT Corp Office Companion 2000 in working condition and can find very little info on them as if they don't exist. Here's a little info on it. Monitor- CPT Data Display model BDS-1202 manufactured September 1985 made in Taiwan. Monitor has burn in and has a split screen. Computer has a floppy drive only. Inside- Masterboard is OSM Computer Corp. copyright 1985 17000065-01 Rev. Intel Chip D8088-2 Intel '78 '81. Most boards inside are also from OSM Computer Corp. dated 1984. Seagate hard drive. I found 2 small pieces of paper inside, they read- WC 00 849 8552. Other piece reads- Floppy W 00 2521 8551. CPT tag on back of computer reads P.N.980271-000 S.N.002542 made in Hong Kong no date. Screen on boot reads-Unilogic Z-rom V1.4 639 KB memory running at 8Mhz Loaded External Disk Driver for Drive E Current date is Tue 01-01-1980 Enter new date (mm-dd-yy). I tinker with computers and came across this in some ones basement. Info from article I found reads-

MINNEAPOLIS, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- CPT Corp. (NASDAQ: CPTC) today announced support and distribution of Western Digital's ViaNet(TM) LAN software for CPT products such as the new CPT 9000 workstation, the CPT Office Companion(TM) 2000 (2000T) workstation, and the SRS (Shared Resource System).
As the entry level product of CPneT Networking Systems Solutions, ViaNet provides a peer-to-peer distributed networking environment for up to eight MS-DOS(A)-based PCs per network configuration. A dedicated server is not required.
Using ArcNet(TM) topology, ViaNet ...

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

Probably, but it could also be a dedicated machine (such as a word-processor or POS). If it has some version of DOS on the HDD, then likely, yes---it's a clone. There were so many of them in the PC/XT era (and so many that went extinct) that you very easily may find absolutely nothing technical about the machine on the 'net...

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

true "clones" often were hardware compatible
with the original pc and xt
this onme has things move4d around and IMPRFOVED
so more devices were part of the motherboardr
the columbia. for axample. was closer to this onme
despite being wider and 8 slots spaced like a pc noy xt
\but would choke on any other version of dos/.
there was great fear then that MIGHTY IBM would come down and sue small companies that
made a true clone.
so may companies played it safe and made changes.
later on the taiwanese who apparently simply didn't care made close copies of the xt and at.
the taiwanese govern mend supposedly made a compatible bios.

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

Here it is after boot
http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad209/gonekrazy4eva/P1010005.jpg
http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad209/gonekrazy4eva/P1010006.jpg

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

What happens after you enter the time/date?

"C" prompt?

"E" prompt?

anything?...

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

Here are pics from inside. I do not want to mess up this machine if it has some info in it that can be saved and used.

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

And this is outside on cover

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

That Acculogic card in there is a good one. Hang onto that. It's one of the few ATA controllers made for the XT.

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:47 am

i want one of those................ the acculogic side 1/16 that is.............

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

But the S-IDE is slower than s*** on any drive over about 40MB... I had one for dual 127MB's and it took forever to defrag a drive or do a DIR function on the root of a drive...

@gonekrazy:
Still haven't answered what happens after inputting the date/time on this thing?

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:29 pm

that's ok if it's slow, i've got some 40mb,20mb, and i think even a very early 10mb ide drives laying around, not sure about the 10s though, they look ide but they could be easily something else.

And i see a seagate hard drive in one of those pics, looks like a 351a/x chillin in there, if that works, it's a good drive, the last of a line as it were. Stepper motor ide, BUT very fast for what it is, also switchable BETWEEN XT-IDE and AT-IDE

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

new time/date entered. Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) Version 5.00
C>dir

volume in drive C is MS-DOS 5
volume serial number is 0021-0029
directory of C:\

DOS <dir> 01-01-80 12:01a
command com 47845 04-09-91 5:00a
config sys 89 01-01-80 12:02a
3 files 47934 butes
40224768 bytes free

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

T-R-A wrote:

But the S-IDE is slower than s*** on any drive over about 40MB... I had one for dual 127MB's and it took forever to defrag a drive or do a DIR function on the root of a drive...

@gonekrazy:
Still haven't answered what happens after inputting the date/time on this thing?

new time/date entered.
Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) Version 5.00

C>dir

volume in drive C is MS-DOS 5
volume serial number is 0021-0029
directory of C:\

DOS <dir> 01-01-80 12:01a
command com 47845 04-09-91 5:00a
config sys 89 01-01-80 12:02a
3 files 47934 butes
40224768 bytes free

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

k2x4b524p wrote:

that's ok if it's slow, i've got some 40mb,20mb, and i think even a very early 10mb ide drives laying around, not sure about the 10s though, they look ide but they could be easily something else.

And i see a seagate hard drive in one of those pics, looks like a 351a/x chillin in there, if that works, it's a good drive, the last of a line as it were. Stepper motor ide, BUT very fast for what it is, also switchable BETWEEN XT-IDE and AT-IDE

Correct on the Seagate 351a/x

Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 9

Is this worth hanging on to. For parts/software?