On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Thomas Poff wrote:
> I picked up a GRiD Model 1900 pen-based DOS machine today. HSC
> Electronics is selling them for $20 each here in Californie. I haven't
> found much in the way of websites, pictures, etc. of this machine. Does
> anyone know of any out there?
Another Bay Area collector? Do you know about our mailing list and secret
handshake? If not, send me private email. What you have there is the
world's first pen-based slate. Common but collectible and almost
industructible. The best website for GRiD info is:
http://www.pd.com/gbmain.html
> What I know so far is that they seem to be V20 powered 2 mb RAM based
> machines with little expandability but a nice LCD display. It has a
> semi-standard [compatible but weird pinout] port for a keyboard. There
> is a port on the side that I hope is a serial port and not a CGA or some
> such thing. How do you get data in and out of these machines?
Yes, it's a serial port. There are also two JEIDA ports on the side, but
the cards are pretty hard to find and there's no eject button, so you need
the kind with pull tabs. John H. had a couple of extra keyboard
connectors for the 1900/1910, but I'll have to look up his email address.
> I was wondering what the little door on the bottom of the machine is.
> Someone in past e-mails on the net mentioned that it was for an IDE hard
> drive connection. Might this be true?
I had the pin-outs once (before I was a "collector"), but I think I've
lost them. It was for an expansion tray that GRiD never built, AFAIK.
> I haven't powered it up yet as I have yet to order a power supply for it
> [Monday] but am intrigued enough to pour a few bucks into it to see if
> it works properly.
It's worth playing with. When I first got mine from Prime Electronics
several years ago, I had GEOS running on it as well as a few of the apps
from my Zoomer.
> 0_at_0000000.com
Cute.
-- Doug
Received on Sat Nov 07 1998 - 23:13:41 GMT