1 Jun
2000
1 Jun
'00
4:56 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 03:05:48PM -0600, Mark Gregory wrote:
I've never heard of the Mindset PC,
It was a wicked cool 80186-based PC, just barely PC-compatible enough to get
your hopes up but that's about where it ended. It had really snazzy (for the
time) graphics and sound hardware, weird keyboard (IIRC the power switch was
on it and actually sent scan codes rather than controling the PS directly),
and a timer which among other things could be programmed to turn the machine
on and off. Came out around '84 I think, and disappeared pretty quickly.
I remember seeing an ACP ad selling the bare boxes off for $200 a couple of
years later, still kicking myself for not buying one.
John Wilson
D Bit