Exidy Sorcerer home computer

UvA Computer Museum catalogue nr 99.74

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The Exidy Systems Sorcerer 2 (1979) was produced under license by Compudata, Holland. It was sold (with substantial government support) to many Dutch technical schools.
The Sorcerer had 16, 32 or 48 kB RAM on board which could be increased to a maximum of 64 kB using an S-100 bus based expansion box. Screen RAM supported 30 lines of 64 characters. Besides a 4 kB power-on monitor, firmware in an 8 kB or 16 kB ROM pack could be plugged in.
On the machines with floppy drives, CP/M could be run. A 5.25 inch floppy disk (hard sectored, 77 tracks, Exidy proprietary format) had room for 315 kB. For connecting the drives a controller card had to be placed in the S-100 expansion box. (Unfortunately the S-100 bus had several non-standard features, as was often the case with S-100 bus systems).
A fully equipped system with floppy drives was usually only available for the technical school staff. The students would use the basic system with audio-cassette mass storage, running Basic from plugged-in ROM.
This machine was donated by Mr. E.H. Spits, Oostzaan

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