19 Oct
2018
19 Oct
'18
2:14 a.m.
Its possibly something like but not exactly a Raytheon, Sweda, Lanier etc
or similar business machine just before the IBM PC
I have never seen this one.
Bill
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 1:53 AM jim stephens via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 10/18/2018 10:37 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 10/18/18 9:56 PM, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
I was saying more reminded of Altos. Maybe
early versions, not sure. I
agree it doesn't match it at all.
All the Altos boxes I have are 8" floppy boxes w/o that nonsense, so
haven't got a lot of experience with those.
And you're right the Commodore thing is going on there too.
thanks
Jim
The sides are not square like any Imsai I saw,
and there is a monitor on
top, which is also in a slope case. I don't recognize it, but as I said
the Altos look like one of the 58x (I think) looks similar.
Don't think
so---the trapezoidal monitor case is wrong for an ACS586, as
well as the case being too tall--the 586 FH drive faceplates came right
up to the top of the system cover. In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for
the shape of the system
unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box. Did such a box ever have
the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive?
--Chuck