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I only know of two of these, and only 1 worker - this one. Awesome stuff!

I got this 7 years ago. It came with 2 disks. The User Utilities which can only be used to copy documents or format new disks. The other was the Word Processing software. I only got it to boot the Word Processing disk once. Finally figured out how to properly read & write the flux image last night.

I hope you did the same dance I did when I got my 8520 booting over xmas 2024 😁 Awesome work. Also, did you get it from Sweden?

Not quite Sweden but there are plenty of Scandinavians here in Minnesota. Heh. I picked it up in Duluth.

I always get Minnesota and Minneapolis mixed up. I'm slowly documenting the history of CPT through emails from ex-staffers. binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/cpt

I’ve viewed your CPT page many times since I got this machine in 2019 and I’ve communicated with several of those former CPT employees. The company was headquartered just a few miles from where I live just west of Minneapolis.

It's always good to be able to keep memories of this stuff alive. There must be loads of garages and lofts containing documentation about these machines but so far not much has surfaced apart from what people can remember. Hope my pages have been of use!

I was chatting regularly with one of my page contributors for a long while as he was digging his 8000 series parts/disks/books out. He was going to send me disk images of his collection but everything went quiet a year last June so I hope he's just too busy.

I’m hoping to meet up with the guy who designed the keyboard next month.

Ah splendid. Say hello from a little corner of the UK for me please. The 8520 keyboard is excellent.