East Bay companies

Also: Omicron (Berkeley): 8" drive mod and CP/M (and mods) for TRS-80 Model 1 I sold my model 1 with those mods at VCF, and it was one of the pictures in the magazine story. Parasitic Engineering (Berkeley): 8" drive and CP/M for TRS-80 Model 1 I think that Eric got mine. There was a mention in a prestigious magazine (ACM?) that third party peripheral suppliers (for DEC?) were parasites. That prompted Howard Fullmer to name his company. Howard was the chief engineer of Morrow, and responsible for most of their designs, S-100 "standardization", etc. (paper presented at Second West Coast Computer Faire in San Jose) ("Standards are great; everyone should have a unique one of their own" - George Morrow) [BTW: Does ANYBODY have a copy of "Quotations of Chairman Morrow"???] I recall seeing an obituary for Howard in MicroTimes? about 12 years ago. Nobody else seems to remember seeing that, or even remembers that he existed. Paperback Software: Another Adam Osborne venture. Sued out of existence by Lotus in a landmark "look and smell" user interface copyright suit. Elcompco: insignificant small company. software, peripherals, and drives for TRS-80 in a case with a smoked plexiglass cover. One sold at VCF a few years ago; I have the prototype. Introduced BMC-80 (complete machine in Halliburton attache case). Adam Osborne admired it for a while, but a few hours LATER introduced the Osborne 1, and claimed that IT was the "FIRST AND ONLY" all in one machine. Their booth had $10K of chrome and black plexiglass; but WE had cold beer. Elcompco is now in SF doing elevator computers (which was the original intent of the name) GPA: small company. serial printer interface for TRS-80 (without E.I.) Overshadowed by, but compatible with, TRS-232 Computer Currents (Emeryville): Stan Politi's computer newspaper, originally named "Computer Classifieds". Swallowed by IDG; regurgitated; merged recently with "Computer User". Microtimes (Oakland): Computer newspaper, same publisher as BAM (music) A few years ago, they fired Mary Eisentern as editor. Now they're gone. How complete and coprehensive a list do you want? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com