23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
noon
The Otrona was a great little machine. There was even a 'PC' add-in card that
allowed it to run MS DOS. They were prone to frying the video controller chip. I resorted
to gluing a heatsink to the top of the chip.
(Adam Osborne was a jerk.. At least in person) He scuttled his own company by announcing a
new version of their computers well before it was ready to ship. Stuck with a glut of
hardware nobody would buy, they ended up folding.
This was all just before the first versions of the 'laptops' came out - Most
notable - the Data General DG1 and the Toshiba 100.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:06 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Kaypro II
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, mc68010 wrote:
At least out here on the west coast you would be
lucky to get $40 for
Kaypro. There really isn't much love for the all in one cp/m boxes
in
general. They never really made any emotional
connection with people.
All work no play. The Kaypro were about the least interesting of the
lot too.
The Kaypro case looked too "homemade" for some people.
The Osborne changed THAT.
Why didn't the Otrona catch on?
Charlie Chaplin [clone] carrying a table with computer down stairs
wasn't enough?