New finds in Houston

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Jun 19 23:24:41 2001

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, John R. Keys Jr. wrote:

> I just got back from 18 days down in Houston and in-between working (and
> the flooding) I was able to hit a few thrifts there. I got the
> following:
>
> 1. A handheld called Compact by Ultratec with a acoustic modem in the
> top cover. It's 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 and 1 1/8 inch tall. It has no other
> markings on it.
>
> 2. Six new in the box Vic20 game cartridges
>
> 3. R.O.B. by Nintendo robot
>
> 4. Something called a Xscribe that looks like a over grown C64.

XScribe was a San Diego Company that built computer based Court Reporting
machines. The early ones were CP/M based. Unfortunately, as they
diminished in size, so did the company, and after a couple of mergers,
they are remembered mostly by those who lost money in the stock. It now
trades as NMFGE at about 11 cents.

                                                 - don

> 5. A alphamicro 1000A model AM1000-47
>
> 6. Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10 thermal printer
>
> 7. Several new in the box TI99 cartridges
>
> 8. And about 50+ more items that do not meet the 10 year rule.
> It was a good trip just wish the weather had been better.
>
>
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