13 Apr
2001
13 Apr
'01
1:32 p.m.
I remember the ICON! But I have never seen one since :(
They appeared in my final year of high school at Grimbsby S.S. in
1983/1984. In two words the ones we had looked like chocolate ET, but they
were much more advanced than the CBM Pet 4032s we had. The keyboard was
integral to the system unit and included a trackball as a pointer. The
monitor was green monochrome and stuck out from the system unit on a short
gooseneck. The CPU was a 68000, ran QNX and had a hard drive of unknown
capacity. I was overjoyed at not having to store programs on cassette tape
anymore! I remember programming in BASIC, using a scribble program with
the trackball, LOGO, and playing the original adventure.
In short, this is one oddball computer someone should get their hands on.
Edwin
At 09:31 AM 4/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
From going
through a bunch of sites it looks like the ICON was somehow
connected to Unisys.
Plus somewhere I remember reading that the ICONS were
based on the 80186. Of course this last bit may be totally wrong...
Bryan
Happy Friday and All....