The Serie 5 was a CP/M based 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, but with 5.25'' disk drives instead of the 8'' floppies.
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I had an old System 5 when I was a kid. It had a 5 1/4" floppy and a full Hight 5.5 MB hard drive on it. It ran MP/M and we had three terminals attached to it. My Dad built and programmed a complete POS system for our continence store. We ran the system until the early 1990''s.
Friday 6th January 2023
Eric Scott (Canada)
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
April 1982
CPU
Z80A
RAM
192 Kb
ROM
Unknown
TEXT MODES
80x24
GRAPHIC MODES
None
COLORS
Monochrome display
I/O PORTS
Network (X25 protocol)
BUILT IN MEDIA
Floppy-drives : 1 or 2 x 5.25'' disk-drives (1 Mb each) Hard-disk : Winchester 5 Mb (10 Mb optional for the Serie 5D)
