30 Oct
2003
30 Oct
'03
10:02 p.m.
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 09:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
Why yes I am. But I don't have an 8088 add in card.
Any body remember the ERA computer store on El Camino near San Antonio,
that's where I saw an Otrona Attache, I'll trade a compaq lunchbox 286
or 386 for one... :^)
Is it just me or was there a small cp/m machine
named the Ortrana Attache?
? are you ALSO a small CP/M machine??
It was Otrona Attache.
It was exceptionally portable. They did an ad showing a Charlie
Chaplin
trying to carry a PC down stairs on a table; one of the first cases
where
IBM's lawyers enforced their ownership of Charlie Chaplin as a
trademark
for computers (purchased from his estate - his personal politics would
not
have gone for an association with IBM)
It had 40 track per side drives that were upgradable to 80 track per
side.
There was an 8088 coprocessor add-in card for MS-DOS!
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Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
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