On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Feldman, Robert wrote:
I don't know of any Otrona specific sites, but do
you still provide
(
http://www.gaby.de/sysdisk.htm) the system disks Don?
Yep, sure do. Lovely machine. Truly the Cadillac of `luggables' in its
day. My eyes demand an external monitor these days, however.
I have a working 8:16 (upgraded to 640K by Brown
Enterprises) with both User
Guides and a small Service Guide. I have been corresponding with someone in
Australia who has the technical manuals and an Otrona that will not keep
time or boot. I've been thinking of scanning my Service Guide for this chap.
If I do, I will make it available. I will see if we can get his technical
manuals scanned, too.
That would be a real asset for owners.
I have the CP/M and MS-DOS 2.11e disks. The latter was
in development when
Otrona went bankrupt, but was distributed by the Attache User's Group out of
S.F. I also have some of the sales literature and the last User's Group
newsletters and disks (one of which contains a buggy source of the BIOS).
I have a BIOS source file also. Is this the same header on the file as
yours?
.TITLE 'BIOS FOR 48 TPI READ OF 96 TPI DRIVES'
;
; |----------------------------------------------|
; | |
; | OTRONA 500 SERIES CP/M 2.2 BIOS & BOOT |
; | |
; |----------------------------------------------|
;
; S.GRAY 10-19-1983
; R.LINGEMANN
; R.WINTER
;
If so, likely mine is buggy also.
- don
BTW, Don, I have a 5027 I will part with (contact me
offlist). I got it as a
spare (I had heard they often went out) when I took my Otrona to Peru to use
with an archaeological project. A fellow archaeologist here in Chicago at
the Oriental Institute used his in the Middle East. He got Autodesk to
customize AutoCAD (version 1.4) for the Otrona, although apparently, in the
end, John Walker felt it was a waste of time. I still have a copy of the
Otrona AutoCAD, but don't have the proper mouse or digitizer to use it
effectively.
Bob Feldman
Robert_Feldman(a)jdedwards.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm@cts.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:17 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Devoted site to the Otrona Attache?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, David Vohs wrote:
Does anyone know where (if?) there are any sites
devoted to the Otrona
Attache? I am asking because I not too long ago picked up one of these
great
little machines (I know, lucky me!) & was
wondering how large (small?) the
remaining user base is.
I am unaware of an Otrona site, but I have four of the machines. Wish I
knew where to get some CRT 5027 chips at a reasonable price, though.
There was also a TI clone whose p/n does not come to me directly.
- don
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David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page:
http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82.
"Shapeshifter": Epson QX-10, Titan graphics & MS-DOS board, Comrex HDD.
"Scout": Otrona Attache.
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