The CPT 8000 was the company's first microcomputer product, exhibited in spring of 1976.
It was a self-contained desktop machine with two 8 inch floppy diskette drives, a movable keyboard, and a full-page vertically oriented CRT display with black characters on a white background, for a wysiwyg view of text on paper.
It was promoted as familiar and easy to use for those experienced with typewriters.

The CPT 8000 had dual-window editing, where text was assembled in an upper window from text entered at the keyboard or from one or more files brought successively into the lower window.
Words, lines, paragraphs, and pages could be slid from the lower window to the upper, as in the cassette tapes of the CPT 4200, or they could be deleted from the lower window.
In addition the two screens could lock and scroll up or down together.

The machine used two processors, an 8080 microprocessor and a custom display processor.
65,536 bytes of main memory were standard and were used jointly by both processors for executable code, program data, and video memory.
Price: approx.
$15,000, 1980-era values.

An RS-232 serial communication option was available for the 8000 series that allowed the  electronic transfer of documents.
The CPT 8000 was the company's first microcomputer product, exhibited in spring of 1976. It was a self-contained desktop machine with two 8 inch floppy diskette drives, a movable keyboard, and a full-page vertically oriented CRT display with black characters on a white background, for a wysiwyg view of text on paper. It was promoted as familiar and easy to use for those experienced with typewriters.
The CPT 8000 had dual-window editing, where text was assembled in an upper window from text entered at the keyboard or from one or more files brought successively into the lower window. Words, lines, paragraphs, and pages could be slid from the lower window to the upper, as in the cassette tapes of the CPT 4200, or they could be deleted from the lower window. In addition the two screens could lock and scroll up or down together.
The machine used two processors, an 8080 microprocessor and a custom display processor. 65,536 bytes of main memory were standard and were used jointly by both processors for executable code, program data, and video memory. Price: approx. $15,000, 1980-era values.
An RS-232 serial communication option was available for the 8000 series that allowed the  electronic transfer of documents.
CPT Corporation