These things didn't have a long market life. Yes, they were available for
at least a year. I remember ads in BYTE. These were EPSON devices, weren't
they? Radio Shack was involved with them somehow.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: David Vohs <netsurfer_x1_at_hotmail.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Rover I portable: Does it exist?
> I recently read about an intresting old portable (luggable?) called the
> Rover I. This is an intresting machine because instead of using floppy
> drives like most portables, it uses wafertape drives (now *there's* a
> storage system that never really took off, but I have heard that they were
> reasonably popular on TRaSh-80's.)
>
> My question: What is it? Does it exist? Was it ever released?
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Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 18:43:26 BST