NorthStar Horizon

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NorthStar Horizon
Z80 processor board of the NorthStar Horizon
A look into the NorthStar Horizon

The North Star Horizon is an American 8-bit computer with a Z80A - microprocessor is equipped (4 MHz). The computer was manufactured by North Star Computers. The calculator was first launched in 1979.

The computer supports the operating systems CP / M and NSDOS (NorthStars Disk Operating System).

NSDOS also contained a NorthStar BASIC, a dialect of the standard BASIC .

The computer was used particularly in US universities, as it could be used particularly well as a control system for various scientific experiments with its S-100 bus as an interface .

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