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EAGLE COMPUTERS INC. Eagle	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1980	Zilog Z80 A	name company company_name specs tabs photos comments oc_id source Eagle /companies/eagle-computers-inc EAGLE COMPUTERS INC. label value NAME Eagle label value MANUFACTURER Eagle Computers Inc. label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR april 1980 label value END OF PRODUCTION 1988 label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke ketboard with separated numeric keypad label value CPU Zilog Z80 A label value SPEED 4 MHz label value RAM 64 KB label value VRAM 2 KB label value ROM 4 KB label value TEXT MODES 80 x 24 label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS monochrome green display label value I/O PORTS Centronics, 2 x serial/RS232, SASI\ AV ports on AVI models label value BUILT IN MEDIA According the model label value OS CP/M 2.2 label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PRICE Eagle III : $1600 (USA, 1982)\ Eagle IV : $2600 (USA, 1982) photos title subtitle text image EAGLE II null title subtitle text image EAGLE II - FRONT thanks to Dorothy de Kiewiet for this picture null title subtitle text image EAGLE II - RIGHT SIDE thanks to Dorothy de Kiewiet for this picture null title subtitle text image EAGLE II - SIDE null title subtitle text image EAGLE II - REAR thanks to Dorothy de Kiewiet for this picture null title subtitle text image EAGLE II - REAR CLOSE-UP From left to right: - audio PLAY IN\ - audio OUT 1 & OUT 2\ - SERIAL 1 & 2\ - PARALLEL A\ - PARALLEL B (Centronics)\ - Power cord\ - Brightness knob\ - Power switch thanks to Dorothy de Kiewiet for this picture null title subtitle text image EAGLE II - LEFT SIDE thanks to Dorothy de Kiewiet for this picture null title subtitle text image DIFFERENT EAGLE MODELS /media/museum/photos/eagle_computers.jpg author date text ND Martin (United States) Tuesday 28th July 2020 There are a few errors in the Spellbinder essay. Spellbinder was a two-man company, founded by UC Davis psychology professor John Bintz and Perry Gee, who wrote the software. You seem to have conflated the story of Eagle Computer president Dennis Barnhardt''s untimely demise in his Ferrari the day the company went public. Lexisoft folded because they never developed a WYSIWYG capability for Spellbinder and the industry passed them by. I don''t know what happened to Perry, but John and his wife retired, sold their house in Davis, CA, bought a motor home and hit the road. author date text mrkoolnerd (usa) Thursday 13rd January 2011 i was wondering which model is most common today author date text Joey Swails Sunday 4th October 2009 I used an Eagle III around 1984 - the software company I worked for (Eldorado Software) got it to use for porting our products (spreadsheet utilities and templates) to C/PM. We also used it to convert our spreadsheet templates to UltraCalc and SuperCalc (they were all originally written for VisiCalc on the Apple II.) Since we were trying to do a lot of cross-platform development, we had the Eagle, an Apple II, an original IBM PC (no hard drive), a TRS-80, a Commodore 64, Atari 400 and a Basis 80 (Apple clone) all in our workshop! author date text Joseph Kelch (Belcamp, MD) Saturday 18th May 2002 I was working as an intern at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC when in 1982 we installed the first computer automation system in the theater, using dual Eagle II computers. They were nice machines for the time. I learned a lot about assembly language programming playing with them! 526 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230208074732/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=526 2023-02-08

Eagle Computers were originally manufactured by AVL (Audio Visual Labs) as a controller for audio-video projectors. The original models, the Eagle I and II, had AV ports on the back.

The computers proved so popular that the AV ports were removed, and standard RS-232 and Centronics ports added. The computer division was spun off and Eagle Computers, Inc. was created.

The complete line of CP/M computers they made was: Eagle I, II, III, IV, and V. All were the same except for the storage. The Eagle I had a single single-sided (SS) double-density (DD) 96-tpi 5.25" floppy-disk drive, the Eagle II had two of these. The Eagle III had two double-sided (DS) DD 96-tpi 5.25" FDD. The Eagle IV had one of these and a 10-Mb hard disk, and the Eagle V had one of these and a 32-Mb hard disk.

The Is and Vs were not sold in large numbers, because of the small storage capacity of the former, and the high capacity and higher price of the latter. Who needed 32 Mb?