15 Jun
1997
15 Jun
'97
9:32 a.m.
With the current thread on Osborne's machines (he was a great writer
about computer concepts, a fair engineer, and a _lousy_ businessman --
level of incompetence at work ala the Peter Principle), I realise that
besides Kaypro, there is another line of pre-laptops I'm interested in.
If anybody gets a line on an available Otrona CP/M system, I am very
interested. I thought it was the prettiest luggable around, even though I
continue very loyal to my TRS-80 4P. What ever happened to Otrona,
anyway? Did they get absorbed by Olivetti and forced to make pathetic PC
semi-compatibles for AT&T? (The Olivetti/AT&T PC 6300 had a video
connector that carried 70vdc to the monitor from a connector that looked
like a PC parallel port [female DB-25] until a customer mistook which
connector was which, I thought that _nothing_ could kill a TRS-80 Daisy
Wheel Printer II -- the aroma of semiconductors reverting to rocks in both
printer and CPU demonstrated that something indeed could).
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Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
15 Jun
15 Jun
12:57 a.m.
On 15-Jun-97, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
If anybody gets a line on an available Otrona CP/M
system, I am very
interested. I thought it was the prettiest luggable around, even though
Ward,
VERY bad timing for this post. A couple of months ago, I was talking to a
guy who I had bought something else from, and he had decided to offer me the
Otrona that he had. Unfortunately, I didn't have the $125 he wanted for it,
it's additional external monitor, manuals and software, so I passed on it. It
just happens that I finally deleted all of the correspondance with him about 3
days ago while doing some badly needed maintenance on my system. I'll see if I
can't come up with his email address and such from somewhere.
Jeff Jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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10:12 a.m.
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
VERY bad timing for this post. A couple of months
ago, I was talking to a
guy who I had bought something else from, and he had decided to offer me the
Otrona that he had. Unfortunately, I didn't have the $125 he wanted for it,
it's additional external monitor, manuals and software, so I passed on it. It
just happens that I finally deleted all of the correspondance with him about 3
days ago while doing some badly needed maintenance on my system. I'll see if I
can't come up with his email address and such from somewhere.
External monitor? The Otrona (and Cromemco and Apple and several other
lines) dealer next door to the RSCC where I did tech support in downtown
L.A. never had or mentioned anything like that, and neither as I recall
did Jerry Pournelle in print or in person.
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
5:29 a.m.
On 15-Jun-97, Ward Griffiths and/or Lisa Rogers wrote:
External monitor? The Otrona (and Cromemco and Apple
and several other
lines) dealer next door to the RSCC where I did tech support in downtown
L.A. never had or mentioned anything like that, and neither as I recall
did Jerry Pournelle in print or in person.
That's what he said. It was an Attache, and he definately said it had some
sort of external monitor on it. I know my Executive has an output for one.
BTW, all I can come up with was that his name is Roy Tally. I started
conversing with him because he saw one of my posts on Usenet. I'm not even
sure which group he was from though. Sorry I can't be more specific.
Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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