Basic/Four Corporation Model 7250 terminal

Jim, thanks! You've filled in a lot of the earlier history I wasn't aware of with regards to Microdata! It always has amazed me how huge the Pick installed base is... given that it's called so many different things many people don't realize that's what they are using - even the people writing code for it don't realize it's "Pick" :) I don't remember for sure from our previous conversation. Did you say that you eventually got that particular machine back?? I curse letting that machine fall through my fingers! But I wasn't a collector then, and it was "just work" to me. I left it stored at a friends house and he ditched it without telling me. How odd that it wound up with you! The really interesting part about it was I actually had two systems in that pile that were "lost". One of them had a EEPROM board for the firmware instead of the normal proms. It was a firmware development machine and historically significant. The guy I left the machines stored with was Scott Macdonald, he lived in north St. Louis at the time (Spanish Lake). He got tired of my gear taking space in his house and gave them away or sold them, I don't know what he did with them other than he got rid of them someway. This would have been somewhere around 1986. I wonder where exactly the machines went from there? Heh... I do remember the Reflex I & II. I happen to have one on the M2000 system in the basement. They were not known for reliability ;) Didn't they come from Western Dynex or something like that? The M2000 is for all intents and purposes an M1600 - it's just slightly cleaned up. The front panel was separated from the card chassis. Very similar to the Reality Royale systems. I have a few pictures of mine: http://www.ezwind.net/jwest/45nMdata/03040006.jpg http://www.ezwind.net/jwest/45nMdata/03040007.jpg http://www.ezwind.net/jwest/45nMdata/03040008.jpg Ugg.. I hated that machine. The Sequel was nice though. There's a company here in town that has a sequel but the firmware board has been yanked. I think there's a couple reflex drives and a tape drive there. There was a Series 18 at Matthews Medical Books here in town, but I think that's long gone. Jay