12 Jul
1997
12 Jul
'97
5:36 a.m.
On 12 Jul 1997, Frank McConnell wrote:
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
Nope. I've got a Pivot. This was nothing like the Pivot. It was close
to the shape of an Osbourne and it was beige. It was close to the
dimensions of a tower case only it sits horizontally.
Lastly, I saw this pretty awesome looking Morrow
computer which seemed to
be of a portable ilk. At first when I saw it from afar it looked like
one of those phony props you see in furniture stores. When I got up
close I realized it was an actual computer with this funky wide screen
built in (it was about 4" high by 8" wide) and two floppy disks.
A Morrow Pivot. Portable, battery-operated MS-DOS machine; I'm not
sure how IBM-compatible it is. Made by Vadem in Milpitas, OEMd by
Morrow as the Pivot, Zenith as something (think they sold a bunch to
the IRS), Osborne as the Osborne 3. Keep your eyes open, there are others out there.
I've seen one at
Halted in Santa Clara but as usual for Halted they were asking a
bogus price for it, something like $100.
I got mine for free.
Sam
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