Ah, Cromemco. One of the many, many computer companies whose lights burned so brightly c. 1981, but would be totally trampled by the IBM PC elephant.<p>And it's not like Cromemco, Godbout, Morrow, et al. didn't know that 16-bit was the future. They released 8088/8086-based computers too. The offerings were not, however, IBM PC-compatible.
Interesting to see something that definitely used the Tarbell double-density controller! That's a pretty rare controller, and one for which I have not found a lot of extant bootable media/disk images.<p>The single-density Tarbell controller was ubiquitous and common and sort of set the standard for 8" floppy controllers on S-100. Reliable as a hammer.