On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
What blows that all to dust is a machine like mine.
The box is
kaypro-1 (81-021) written all over the outside but, the board is
apparently 4-84 and it's equipped with handyman, Advent turbo rom
and a 2mb Ramdisk. I tell people it says kaypro-1 (number 1!) and
they say two full height drives with slots horizontal but, mine has
two half height two sided drives mounted vertical. Apparently it
was a 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 Fochevromercysler!
The Kaypro 1 was about the last 8-bit machine that they built, Allison.
I am a bit fuzzy on it - haven't seen that many - but it seems to me that
it did have the drives mounted vertical. As issued, it had an 81-294
motherboard, and the 81-478 (U-ROM) EPROM. I believe that it had the
in-built modem and real-time clock as well. The Turbo-ROM was a major
improvement!
PS: Fochevromercysler was one name given to a a
mishmash of engine,
transmission body, suspension parts that came from Ford, Chevy, Mercury,
Chrysler. Seems a friend of mine had no loyalty to any one car.
- don