19 Apr
2000
19 Apr
'00
6:43 p.m.
These things didn't have a long market life. Yes, they were available for
at least a year. I remember ads in BYTE. These were EPSON devices, weren't
they? Radio Shack was involved with them somehow.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: David Vohs <netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Rover I portable: Does it exist?
I recently read about an intresting old portable
(luggable?) called the
Rover I. This is an intresting machine because instead of using floppy
drives like most portables, it uses wafertape drives (now *there's* a
storage system that never really took off, but I have heard that they were
reasonably popular on TRaSh-80's.)
My question: What is it? Does it exist? Was it ever released?
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David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
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