I don't know of any Otrona specific sites, but do you still provide
(
http://www.gaby.de/sysdisk.htm) the system disks Don?
I have a working 8:16 (upgraded to 640K by Brown Enterprises) with both User
Guides and a small Service Guide. I have been corresponding with someone in
Australia who has the technical manuals and an Otrona that will not keep
time or boot. I've been thinking of scanning my Service Guide for this chap.
If I do, I will make it available. I will see if we can get his technical
manuals scanned, too.
I have the CP/M and MS-DOS 2.11e disks. The latter was in development when
Otrona went bankrupt, but was distributed by the Attache User's Group out of
S.F. I also have some of the sales literature and the last User's Group
newsletters and disks (one of which contains a buggy source of the BIOS).
BTW, Don, I have a 5027 I will part with (contact me offlist). I got it as a
spare (I had heard they often went out) when I took my Otrona to Peru to use
with an archaeological project. A fellow archaeologist here in Chicago at
the Oriental Institute used his in the Middle East. He got Autodesk to
customize AutoCAD (version 1.4) for the Otrona, although apparently, in the
end, John Walker felt it was a waste of time. I still have a copy of the
Otrona AutoCAD, but don't have the proper mouse or digitizer to use it
effectively.
Bob Feldman
Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm_at_cts.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:17 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Devoted site to the Otrona Attache?
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, David Vohs wrote:
> Does anyone know where (if?) there are any sites devoted to the Otrona
> Attache? I am asking because I not too long ago picked up one of these
great
> little machines (I know, lucky me!) & was wondering how large (small?) the
> remaining user base is.
I am unaware of an Otrona site, but I have four of the machines. Wish I
knew where to get some CRT 5027 chips at a reasonable price, though.
There was also a TI clone whose p/n does not come to me directly.
- don
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> "Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
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> "Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
> "Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82.
> "Shapeshifter": Epson QX-10, Titan graphics & MS-DOS board, Comrex HDD.
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Received on Wed Jun 13 2001 - 09:05:27 BST