Interesting early all-in-one PC with monitor and printer built-in -- Computer Devices DOT (eBay)

William Maddox wrote: Heh... never thought I'd see one of those on ebay ! I have one myself.... There were a 'sort of' PC compatable. Don't recall all the differences, could have been IRQs, or something. They ran DOT DOS 1.X. DOT went under before DOT DOS 2.X, but it was floating around. I have either a 'beta' DOT DOS 2.X or a 'hacked' DOS 2.X, but it didn't work right so stuck with DOT DOS 1.X. I bought mine while at UNH, and someone there 'ported' Turbo Pascal. I bought the real thing and then that person gave me the modified copy for DOT, on DOT 3.5" diskettes. Mine is like brand new. They support a built in thermal printer (I believe it was thermal anyway), but not all models had it. They could be expanded to 256K ? The 3.5" drives were single sided... don't recall capacity, but I think 360K ? Built in B&W monitor... think it did Hercules rez ... but can't recall. It was a neat PC clone for the day. I have all the original software and docs that came with mine. Since that one is local to me I put a bid on it (it has the thermal printer :-) ). Not like I need it however :-) I got mine around fall 85/sprint 86 as DOT went under. Wish I knew the specifics of what was different... but I never did learn all those details. Sadly after paying a fortune (for me in the day) for the machine, I barely used it. -- Curt -- Curt