14 Jul
1997
14 Jul
'97
2:44 a.m.
Date: 12 Jul 1997 05:59:37 -0700
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: PAM computer, Convergent?
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
Lastly, I saw this pretty awesome looking Morrow
computer which seemed to
be of a portable ilk. At first when I saw it from afar it looked like
one of those phony props you see in furniture stores. When I got up
close I realized it was an actual computer with this funky wide screen
built in (it was about 4" high by 8" wide) and two floppy disks.
A Morrow Pivot. Portable, battery-operated MS-DOS machine; I'm not
sure how IBM-compatible it is. Made by Vadem in Milpitas, OEMd by
Morrow as the Pivot, Zenith as something (think they sold a bunch to
the IRS), Osborne as the Osborne 3.
Keep your eyes open, there are others out there. I've seen one at Halted in Santa Clara but as usual for Halted they
were asking a
^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
bogus price for it, something like $100.
-Frank McConnell
Funny you should mention these guys. I don't uderstand how they've
managed to stay in business! I *really* needed a couple of 8" floppy
drives a couple of years ago when I lived in San Jose. They had a
pile of them -- for $75.00 a whack! I didn't bite.
They were gone a couple of weeks later, I asked what became of them,
and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were scrapped!
Have you ever seen a grown man cry?
Jeff