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A personal computer released in 1980 by Intertec.The Superbrain had two Z80A microprocessors running at 4 MHz,one for the main processing and the other for peripheralactivities. It had an integrated keyboard and display. Itwas sold with the CP/M operating system, Microsoft Basic, an8080 assembler and Microsoft Cobol 74.The base model, the "Superbrain 10", had no drives, only a networkconnection. Other models added one or two 5" floppy disc units.The "Jr" had 170K drives (single-sided), the "QD" had 340 KBdrives (double-sided) and the "SD" had 780k.Intertec did not sell or support a hard drive or an S-100 busfor these machines.The network version of the SuperBrain was called CompuStar. Thenetwork was a large gray parallel cable. CompuStar had three"file servers" that accepted up to 255 machines. These were the"DSS-10" with a 10MB 8" Winchester drive; the "CDC" with 96MBconsisting of 80MB fixed and a 16MB removable platter; and the"Priam" with a 144MB 14" platter winchester. Intertecmanufactured the controllers for the last two and an enclosure andpower supply for the Priam. CDC had to go on-site to install the96MB.The SuperBrain was succeeded in 1982 by the SuperBrain II. (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=204).