> At 02:56 PM 1/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >::Meanwhile, no one's ever heard of a Zorba, so I don't know why the two I've
> >::heard about sold for over $100.
> >
> >Okay, I'll bite: what's a Zorba?
>
> Suitcase luggable, CP/M, much like the Kaypro. The company that made the
> Zorba was supposedly coming out with another model, but I don't know if
> they ever did.
>
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> Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
>
Well, actually they had two models. The Zorba and the Nomis.
The Nomis (Simon spelled backwards) was just a 98tpi Zorba.
They had a third model designed (kind of like the Osborne Executive)
which had user loadable terminal emulation as well as floppy emulation,
but it never got out.
Bill
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Received on Wed Jan 20 1999 - 08:02:09 GMT