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4 Oct
2007
4 Oct
'07
3:54 a.m.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120166532727
Computer Devices DOT 14547-03 1983 - (eBay item 120166532727 end time Oct-04-07 19:25:01
PDT)
Comes with a carrying case, sort of portable, 8088.
I've never seen one of these. Kind of neat for a PC clone.
More info here:
http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=116
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ Computer Devices Incorporated DOT
--Bill
4 Oct
4 Oct
6:16 a.m.
William Maddox wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120166532727
Computer Devices DOT 14547-03 1983 - (eBay item 120166532727 end time
Oct-04-07 19:25:01 PDT)
Comes with a carrying case, sort of portable, 8088.
I've never seen one of these. Kind of neat for a PC clone.
More info here:
http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=116
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ Computer Devices Incorporated DOT
--Bill
Heh... never thought I'd see one of those on ebay !
I have one myself....
There were a 'sort of' PC compatable. Don't recall all the differences,
could have
been IRQs, or something.
They ran DOT DOS 1.X. DOT went under before DOT DOS 2.X, but it was
floating around. I have either a 'beta' DOT DOS 2.X or a 'hacked' DOS
2.X, but
it didn't work right so stuck with DOT DOS 1.X.
I bought mine while at UNH, and someone there 'ported' Turbo Pascal. I
bought
the real thing and then that person gave me the modified copy for DOT,
on DOT
3.5" diskettes.
Mine is like brand new. They support a built in thermal printer (I
believe it was
thermal anyway), but not all models had it. They could be expanded to
256K ?
The 3.5" drives were single sided... don't recall capacity, but I think
360K ?
Built in B&W monitor... think it did Hercules rez ... but can't recall.
It was a neat PC clone for the day.
I have all the original software and docs that came with mine.
Since that one is local to me I put a bid on it (it has the thermal
printer :-) ).
Not like I need it however :-)
I got mine around fall 85/sprint 86 as DOT went under.
Wish I knew the specifics of what was different... but I never did learn all
those details. Sadly after paying a fortune (for me in the day) for the
machine, I barely used it.
-- Curt
-- Curt
9:47 a.m.
New subject: Interesting early all-in-one PC with monitor and printer built-in -- Computer Devices DOT (eBay)
On Oct 4, 2007, at 6:54 AM, William Maddox wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120166532727
Computer Devices DOT 14547-03 1983 - (eBay item 120166532727 end
time Oct-04-07 19:25:01 PDT)
Comes with a carrying case, sort of portable, 8088.
I've never seen one of these. Kind of neat for a PC clone.
More info here:
http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=116
OLD-COMPUTERS.COM Museum ~ Computer Devices Incorporated DOT
Wow, I have to say, that's adorable!
What an odd aspect ratio that display has.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
3:27 p.m.
At 12:47 PM -0400 10/4/07, Dave McGuire wrote:
Wow, I have to say, that's adorable!
What an odd aspect ratio that display has.
It's better than the aspect ratio my Kaypro 2000 had. I still
remember having to take the floppy for "Battletech: The Crescent
Hawks Inception" over to a friends so I could *see* one place I was
supposed to go! :^)
Zane
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3:30 p.m.
New subject: Interesting early all-in-one PC with monitor and printer built-in -- Computer Devices DOT (eBay)
On Oct 4, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Hooboy yes. I used a Kaypro 2000 for quite a while; really neat
machine, I wish I had kept it. The aspect ratio didn't bother me as
much as the lack of backlighting!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
Wow, I have
to say, that's adorable!
What an odd aspect ratio that display has.
It's better than the aspect ratio my Kaypro 2000 had. I still
remember having to take the floppy for "Battletech: The Crescent
Hawks Inception" over to a friends so I could *see* one place I was
supposed to go! :^)
4:13 p.m.
At 6:30 PM -0400 10/4/07, Dave McGuire wrote:
Hooboy yes. I used a Kaypro 2000 for quite a while;
really neat
machine, I wish I had kept it. The aspect ratio didn't bother me as
much as the lack of backlighting!
I really regret giving the Kaypro 2000 and my VIC-20 away in the
early 90's. I even had the base unit with 5.25" floppy and a 30MB HD
(I paid for a 20MB, and since the dealer couldn't make it work, I got
a free upgrade to 30MB). I was in the Navy when I bought it, and
that base unit took up a sizable portion of my storage space on board
ship.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
5 Oct
5 Oct
10:48 a.m.
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On Thursday 04 October 2007 16:58, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 4 Oct 2007 at 2:54, William Maddox wrote:
I like "luggable" for those...
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Comes with a carrying case, sort of portable,
8088.
Weight is 19 Kg. A sousaphone is more "portable".
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