On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, John Lawson wrote:
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> 2) A Jonos Escort portable, running CP/M 3.0.
>
> This cute little box came from NASA, and has a Syquest drive
> alognside the 1/2 height HD.. the Syquest is unfortunately dead,
> and/or the cartridge is blank. The HD, however is *full* of Stuff,
> including WordStar, which is how I found out what who made this box,
> as it has no outside markings other than the model and serial
> numbers, telling me it's a Model C 2500.
>
> It has an RS232 port, and an IEEE 488, a telephone jack, an
> external video RCA jack, and a many-pin Berg connector marked
> 'External 8" Subsystem'
>
> I haven't had much more time to examine it closely, though it does
> boot and run with no problems, other than complaining about the B:
> drive not working.
>
> In advance of my doing the usual WebSearch on it.. any comments
> or info re: this box would be fun to hear.
John, the only one that I have been exposed to had two 3.5" SSDD drives -
Sony, IIRC, the old ones that did not open the slide on the disk - and no
hard disk. It was based on the STD bus, so hardware mods should have
been easy. Yours may have a later floppy, I'd guess. Rather nice little
package.
I would be interested to hear what HD controller they used.
- don
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Received on Sat Sep 26 1998 - 23:18:40 BST