Trivia and Re: Poly88 manual

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Nov 16 11:04:38 2000

Hans Franke wrote:
>
> Maybe ask Marvin - he's _the_ Poly 88 Guru :)
> He got everything - I wouldn't doubt it if he
> tells one day he owns even the souls of the
> designers :)

I don't have everything nor do I know a lot about Polymorphic, but I do have
what was left of Polymorphic. There is some advantage of living in the city
where a computer was designed and built :). I have a line on two more
Poly-88 computers but haven't been able to shake them loose yet. As far as
manuals are concerned, I have what appear to be the original manuals that
were used to make up the manuals that were distributed. I still need to set
up one of the Poly computers with both 5 1/4" and 8" disk drives to try and
save the mountains of data on the floppies that came from Polymorphic.
Actually, one of the things I am most interested in is taking a look at the
source code for the stuff they distributed.

Trivia - As I think, most people know that the Poly88 was originally named
the MicroAltair and was renamed because of an objection from MITS. I have
been talking to people associated with Polymorphic trying to find out how
many might have been manufactured with the MicroAltair logo. As best as I
have been able to find out, the MicroAltair was only used for some
promotional material and was not actually manufactured as such. I'll be
talking to Dana Trout (Pickles & Trout) in about an hour and I'll ask him
more about that.
Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 11:04:38 GMT