6 Jun
2012
6 Jun
'12
11:43 p.m.
You can't even begin to have a complete discussion of wapros. They
were as common as cockroaches and folks don't collect them. Even
Brian Kunde's list doesn't come close.
And then there's the question of what counts as a aapro? Is the IBM
MT/ST one? How about the IBM mag card typewriters?
The first I saw was made by Artec--it used a Diablo 630-type terminal
with a custom one -line LED (LCD?) mounted on the Hitype. It used a
floor-mounted box with 2 8" floppy drives.
CPT had one out at about the same time that used a page-mode sort of
terminal display.
I think the AES wapro predates microprocessors.
Even Exxon got into the wapro ractket by purchasing Vydec--they lost
a pile of money on that venture.
--Chuck
On 6 Jun 2012 at 19:42, Chris Tofu wrote:
name them please. We need a thorough discussion of w/p's anyway. The
Canon VP-3000 is 8088 based in the event you werent aware. Used 5 1/4s
though. ------------------------------
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 4:10 PM PDT David Griffith wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On 6 Jun 2012 at 6:48, Chris Tofu wrote:
>> I have 2 count them 2 Zenith minisports with 2.5 inch drives. Now
>> thats unusual. No disks though. ------------------------------ >>
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote: >> Yup, I've seen them. AFAIK,
the Minisport was the only widely- >> available system to use them,
unless there was an early digicam. No >> radical advance in
technology, just a different physical size. >> >> Wasn't there a
camera (Canon?) that used them? Or was that a DIFFERENT >> 2.5"? -
there were several competing 2.5" (and a 2.9" spiral) technologies >>
being shown around that time. > >The Canon Xapshot took a VFD or
Video Floppy Disk. The disk measured roughly 2.5" and stored analogue
still images. This was fairly rare, but was much more common than the
LT1 disk that the Zenith Minisport took. There was another 2.5"-ish
disk called the QuickDisk which had a single track in a spiral. This
was most commonly found in word processors, musical equipment, and
the Japanese version of the NES. > > >-- David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu > >A: Because it
fouls the order in which
people normally read text. >Q: Why is top-posting such
a bad thing?
A: Top-posting. >Q: What is the most annoying
thing in e-mail?