Classic semi-portables

With the current thread on Osborne's machines (he was a great writer about computer concepts, a fair engineer, and a _lousy_ businessman -- level of incompetence at work ala the Peter Principle), I realise that besides Kaypro, there is another line of pre-laptops I'm interested in. If anybody gets a line on an available Otrona CP/M system, I am very interested. I thought it was the prettiest luggable around, even though I continue very loyal to my TRS-80 4P. What ever happened to Otrona, anyway? Did they get absorbed by Olivetti and forced to make pathetic PC semi-compatibles for AT&T? (The Olivetti/AT&T PC 6300 had a video connector that carried 70vdc to the monitor from a connector that looked like a PC parallel port [female DB-25] until a customer mistook which connector was which, I thought that _nothing_ could kill a TRS-80 Daisy Wheel Printer II -- the aroma of semiconductors reverting to rocks in both printer and CPU demonstrated that something indeed could). -- Ward Griffiths "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe