12 Jul
1997
12 Jul
'97
3:59 a.m.
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
Lastly, I saw this pretty awesome looking Morrow
computer which seemed to
be of a portable ilk. At first when I saw it from afar it looked like
one of those phony props you see in furniture stores. When I got up
close I realized it was an actual computer with this funky wide screen
built in (it was about 4" high by 8" wide) and two floppy disks.
A Morrow Pivot. Portable, battery-operated MS-DOS machine; I'm not
sure how IBM-compatible it is. Made by Vadem in Milpitas, OEMd by
Morrow as the Pivot, Zenith as something (think they sold a bunch to
the IRS), Osborne as the Osborne 3.
Keep your eyes open, there are others out there. I've seen one at
Halted in Santa Clara but as usual for Halted they were asking a
bogus price for it, something like $100.
-Frank McConnell
12 Jul
12 Jul
8:36 a.m.
On 12 Jul 1997, Frank McConnell wrote:
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
Nope. I've got a Pivot. This was nothing like the Pivot. It was close
to the shape of an Osbourne and it was beige. It was close to the
dimensions of a tower case only it sits horizontally.
Lastly, I saw this pretty awesome looking Morrow
computer which seemed to
be of a portable ilk. At first when I saw it from afar it looked like
one of those phony props you see in furniture stores. When I got up
close I realized it was an actual computer with this funky wide screen
built in (it was about 4" high by 8" wide) and two floppy disks.
A Morrow Pivot. Portable, battery-operated MS-DOS machine; I'm not
sure how IBM-compatible it is. Made by Vadem in Milpitas, OEMd by
Morrow as the Pivot, Zenith as something (think they sold a bunch to
the IRS), Osborne as the Osborne 3. Keep your eyes open, there are others out there.
I've seen one at
Halted in Santa Clara but as usual for Halted they were asking a
bogus price for it, something like $100.
I got mine for free.
Sam
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14 Jul
14 Jul
5:44 a.m.
Date: 12 Jul 1997 05:59:37 -0700
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: PAM computer, Convergent?
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
Lastly, I saw this pretty awesome looking Morrow
computer which seemed to
be of a portable ilk. At first when I saw it from afar it looked like
one of those phony props you see in furniture stores. When I got up
close I realized it was an actual computer with this funky wide screen
built in (it was about 4" high by 8" wide) and two floppy disks.
A Morrow Pivot. Portable, battery-operated MS-DOS machine; I'm not
sure how IBM-compatible it is. Made by Vadem in Milpitas, OEMd by
Morrow as the Pivot, Zenith as something (think they sold a bunch to
the IRS), Osborne as the Osborne 3.
Keep your eyes open, there are others out there. I've seen one at Halted in Santa Clara but as usual for Halted they
were asking a
^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
bogus price for it, something like $100.
-Frank McConnell
Funny you should mention these guys. I don't uderstand how they've
managed to stay in business! I *really* needed a couple of 8" floppy
drives a couple of years ago when I lived in San Jose. They had a
pile of them -- for $75.00 a whack! I didn't bite.
They were gone a couple of weeks later, I asked what became of them,
and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were scrapped!
Have you ever seen a grown man cry?
Jeff
8:17 a.m.
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Jeff Kaneko wrote:
Some of these surplus stores have real turkeys running them. That's why
Weird Stuff fell from glory. They always had cool stuff (they had a
couple Lisa's when I went there in 1993) but they always wanted
ridiculous prices for the crap. I mean they had stuff going for $50 that
nobody would take at a flea market for free.
Some people just have no business sense...
Sam
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Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
Halted in
Santa Clara but as usual for Halted they were asking a
^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
Funny you should mention these guys. I don't uderstand how they've
managed to stay in business! I *really* needed a couple of 8" floppy
drives a couple of years ago when I lived in San Jose. They had a
pile of them -- for $75.00 a whack! I didn't bite.
They were gone a couple of weeks later, I asked what became of them,
and they said that nobody wanted them, so they were scrapped!
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