NorthStar Advantage
| Description | |
| Manufacturer | NorthStar |
| Model | Advantage |
| Date Announced | 1982 |
| Date Canceled | Mid 1980s |
| Number Produced | Tens of thousands |
| Country of Origin | USA |
| Price | $4,000 |
| Current Value | $50-$250 |
| Specifications | --- |
| Processor | Zilog Z-80 and/or Intel 8088 |
| Speed | 3.5 MHz |
| RAM | 16-256K |
| ROM | 2K Boot ROM |
| Storage | |
| Expansion | Proprietary memory and expansion slots. |
| Bus | Proprietary |
| Video | |
| I/O | Parallel, Serial |
| OS Options | CP/M, NorthStar DOS |
| Notes | Northstar started out (as Kentucky Fried Computers) by selling very popular 5.25" disk subsystems for a variety of S-100 machines. They eventually put together a box of their own and, around the time of the IBM PC they introduced the Advantage to compete. In spite of some advanced features it never did well. |
| Related Items in Collection | Original manuals, software including WordStar, CP/M, NorthStar DOS and more. |
| Related Items Wanted | Additional software. |
The Advantage in my collection works and boots CP/M from the hard drive. I have a large number of disks with lots of software as well as a full set of manuals including docs for much of the software.