20 Sep
1999
20 Sep
'99
1:59 a.m.
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:58:54 -0700, wsmith(a)gj.com said:
Has anyone ever heard of a "Kaypro PC-10"?
The Kaypro PC models I am
familiar with are the 16 and 2000. Someone is selling a manual for a PC-10
on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=164605910
My guess is that it is an abortive non-portable PC effort.
It might be the same Kaypro XT clone that was sold by Ahrend in The
Netherlands. This was a very interesting machine. It had a passive
backplane, and the computer itself was on two cards. 8 Mhz V20, 20MB
hard disk, Hercules monochrome. Built like a tank, very reliable.
An autodetecting keyboard came with it, you could plug it in an XT or
an AT and it would always work. Ahrend did not sell too many of them,
after a few years they went out of the computer business (they are an
office furniture company originally).
Kees.
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