[1] Symbiotic Systems previously released the Syncron 8, a S-100 bus–based computer running the Intel 8080 microprocessor and featuring a backplane motherboard with twenty card slots.
[5] The Stratos by contrast is a general-purpose, turnkey,[6] single-board computer, built from a six-layer printed circuit board and powered by a Zilog Z80 microprocessor clocked at 4 MHz.
[8] The included software package comprises CP/M version 2.2, the Spellbinder word processor, either CBASIC or a Pascal compiler,[9] Reminder, Autophone, a personal financing application, and a medley of bespoke programs.
[7] Reminder is a task-scheduling utility that took advantage of the computer's built-in real-time clock to executive certain programs and directives based on a 99-year calendar.
[8] The computer saw modest industrial use, with a real estate company in Santa Cruz using it to generate income analysis reports of their clientele,[13] while a book publisher and printing broker out of San Francisco used the Stratos to compose and design brochures.