On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Feldman, Robert wrote:
> I don't know of any Otrona specific sites, but do you still provide
> (http://www.gaby.de/sysdisk.htm) the system disks Don?
Yep, sure do. Lovely machine. Truly the Cadillac of `luggables' in its
day. My eyes demand an external monitor these days, however.
> 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.
That would be a real asset for owners.
> 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).
I have a BIOS source file also. Is this the same header on the file as
yours?
.TITLE 'BIOS FOR 48 TPI READ OF 96 TPI DRIVES'
;
; |----------------------------------------------|
; | |
; | OTRONA 500 SERIES CP/M 2.2 BIOS & BOOT |
; | |
; |----------------------------------------------|
;
; S.GRAY 10-19-1983
; R.LINGEMANN
; R.WINTER
;
If so, likely mine is buggy also.
- don
> 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
>
> > ____________________________________________________________
> > David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
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> >
> > Computer Collection:
> >
> > "Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
> > "Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
> > "Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
> > "Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
> > "Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
> > "Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
> > "Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82.
> > "Shapeshifter": Epson QX-10, Titan graphics & MS-DOS board, Comrex HDD.
> > "Scout": Otrona Attache.
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