Ebay Northstar Horizon - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Jan 2006

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 From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin at
rain.org>

I was just checking out some stuff on ebay (hanging my head) and ran
across a Northstar Horizon that sold for $551.00. In it, the (fiction?)
writer says:

"Originally, the cases were wooden, but the company soon switched to a
blue metal cover. Hence, those computers with original wooden cases are
more highly sought after than those with the more common metal cases." 
Hi
 I suspect that there were more metal case unit sold. Most of these
were used in rack mounted applications and were crunched up
when the machines they were in were destroyed. I don't think
that the RFI was an issue when N* was making the wooden cased
units. I think that came on later. The wooden cases were just
to make desk units look pretty. I believe they sold both the
metal cased and wooden cased units at the same time.
Dwight

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Also:

"The only known computer to be sold in a wooden case, this collector's
item features its original, walnut-stained wooden case."

Looks like some just plain wrong information, but ...

1) Were there more metal case Horizons sold than wooden case and did
they "soon" switch to a metal case?

2) What other computers were sold in a "wooden case"? The Sol-20 comes
instantly to mind as well as the Polymorphic 8010 and 8013 series of
computers. How many others were there? 