Engineering:NYLAC Computers
NYLAC Computers refer to any computer built by the NYLAC computer company.[1]
Company and name
NYLAC computer company built a computer based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. It was derived from the Rex computer[1] built in Des Moines Iowa. Nylac was founded by Gary Martin, although to customers and dealers NYLAC stood for "Now You've Looked At Computers" that was a bacronym. Actually the name of the company was derived from joining the two words Nyla (Gary's wife's name) and Univac an early computer.
Construction and technical specifications
The motherboard consisted of a Z80 microprocessor running at 4 MHz, an 8257/8275 memory mapped video controller address at 0xF800, and an 8251 serial controller for IO. There were six S-100 bus interfaces one of which was filled with a 51⁄4 inch disc controller card.
The cabinet was filled with a 13" CRT display, a liner power supply, two 51⁄4 inch floppy drives (later versions used dual headed drives). Toward the end of production, NYLACs were built with a 5 megabyte 51⁄4 inch hard drive to replace one of the floppies.
The Nylac Computer used the CP/M disk operating system.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Advert:Lifeboat Associates, Page 22, InfoWorld - 21 Jul 1980], Software for the most popular 8080/Z80* computer disk systems including: ...,REX, NYLAC...
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