MINDSET

From: Larry Groebe <lgroebe_at_insidermarketing.com>
Date: Mon Apr 27 09:45:54 1998

>Does anybody have a MINDSET computer? I vaguely recall these as the first
>multimedia PC from the early 80's. I just found a stereo module for one,
>and now I'm in search of the rest of one :-)
>

You can't have mine.

MINDSET was about as you recall. It built in 1984 as a super-multimedia
80186-based PC-compatible (well, mostly-compatible, anyway.) For 1984,
the graphics were superb and it had (IIRC) a video-in connection so you
can use the computer as a character generator/paintbox. I think it was
packed with a low-end cousin to the Time Arts Lumena paint program and
was THE machine for graphic artists. Remember, this was a year and a half
before the Amiga - which, whene IT came out, pretty much took over
Mindset's market.

The Mindset has a unique and quite beautiful white bi-level case design.
So pretty in fact that the Museum of Modern Art put one in their design
collection - the first computer placed in their collections.

Much of the hardware was proprietary - weird memory modules and it also
accepted plug in progrram cartridges.

Mindset didn't last too long as a company. They DID build a second model,
an AT-based machine in charcoal gray. I've seen it once and never read
anything about it

I found my original Mindset last year, complete with a couple of
expansion RAM modules, the boot disks and the paint cartridge.

Like I said, it's gorgeous and you can't have it. Nyah. But - I might
make you a deal on the stereo module!

--Larry
Received on Mon Apr 27 1998 - 09:45:54 BST