Top 500 software packages for the Columbia Data Products 1600, Nov 1983
I acquired a marketing flyer published in 1983 that describes the top ~500 applications that were tested as compatible with the Columbia Data Product 1600 computer. It is quite interesting as it is a fairly comprehensive list of popular IBM PC software products at that time. The CDP 1600 was the first fully hardware compatible IBM PC clone, so it is also interesting from the perspective that clone makers were sort of sticking it to IBM. Clones of other platforms usually got squashed, and nobody really knew if IBM would crush the PC clone makers. It was very important for vendors to emphasize compatibility so that one would not regret buying their clone computer.
Winworld has a number of these. But as you can see, there are still many, many titles that are not archived.
OVER 500 TOP SOFTWARE PACKAGES MAKE OUR MULTI-PERSONALTM COMPUTERS -- DUAL FLOPPY, HARD DISK AND PORTABLE -- THE LEADERS IN IBM-PC COMPATIBILITY ... AND LEADERS IN PERFORMANCE, PRICE AND VALUE. COLUMBIA DATA PRODUCTS, INC. IBM PC/MS DOS COMPATIBILITY LIST, November 1, 1983 OVER 500 TOP SOFTWARE PACKAGES No other microcomputer system anywhere can beat Columbia Data's MPC software and hardware repertoire. Not IBM's, Not Apple's, Not Ti's. Not DEC's. Not Compaq's. Not HP's. Not even Japan, Inc.'s. 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I would love to see this flyer, maybe you could take a picture (scanner/phone-camera, just to see how it looks, the text you already posted
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Thanks for all that typing
Here is the full PDF: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=17172917283354586366
Thank you very much! I really like those old brochures, flyers, documentation, ....
Could you please upload the PDF again? Link is dead.
Ok, here is a fresh tinyupload link: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=07523253406639089974
Thank you! I am getting a Columbia computer later today, so this is most excellent!
Awesome! I'd be interested to know what BIOS revision is in the system. Only a later revision is fully compatible with VGA cards.
Looks like mine is a Rev B model, with a VGA or CGA card inside (???). The pictures are from the seller, as I have not recieved the computer myself yet.
Ah, I guess you were talking about the MPC version. It is, as you can see, the Columbia 1600-VP/110 I am getting.
Well, that is still very cool. I know they use a different motherboard form, but there is little information on how similar or not similar they are to the desktop 1600. As far as I know the VP's ROMs have never been publicly dumped, so I don't know how similar or different they are. (They might use the exact same ROMs).
In the 1983 byte magazine article announcing "Microsoft Windows", there are photos of "Windows" running on a variety of x86 computers, one of which is the Columbia VP.