The Serie 5 was a multi-user system. It could support from 1 to 3 users. It had a 5 MB Winchester hard-drive and could be upgraded with a 10 MB hard-drive (for the Serie 5D only). It could use CP/M, MP/M II or Oasis as its operating system.
The serie 5 was quite similar to the Altos ACS-8000 which was a bit more powerful.
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I just got an ALTOS serie 5-15DE and it came with two 5.25" floppy drives. I haven''t started it yet so I can''t tell anything about the capacity.
Thursday 26th July 2012
Göran Axelsson (Sweden)
I had one of these. It had a 2 x 5 1/4" floppy drives, NOT 8", of 800Kb capacity each.
Friday 8th June 2012
George Barna
NAME
Serie 5
MANUFACTURER
Altos Computer Systems
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
U.S.A.
YEAR
? 1982
CPU
Z80A
RAM
192 kb
I/O PORTS
Network (X25 protocol)
BUILT IN MEDIA
Floppy-drives : 1 or 2 x 8'' disk-drives (1 Mb each) Hard-disk : Winchester 5 Mb (10 Mb optional for the Serie 5D)
