Also:
Omicron (Berkeley): 8" drive mod and CP/M (and mods) for TRS-80 Model 1
I sold my model 1 with those mods at VCF, and it was one of the pictures
in the magazine story.
Parasitic Engineering (Berkeley): 8" drive and CP/M for TRS-80 Model 1
I think that Eric got mine.
There was a mention in a prestigious magazine (ACM?) that third party
peripheral suppliers (for DEC?) were parasites. That prompted Howard
Fullmer to name his company.
Howard was the chief engineer of Morrow, and responsible for most of their
designs, S-100 "standardization", etc. (paper presented at Second West
Coast Computer Faire in San Jose) ("Standards are great; everyone should
have a unique one of their own" - George Morrow)
[BTW: Does ANYBODY have a copy of "Quotations of Chairman Morrow"???]
I recall seeing an obituary for Howard in MicroTimes? about 12 years
ago. Nobody else seems to remember seeing that, or even remembers that he
existed.
Paperback Software: Another Adam Osborne venture. Sued out of existence
by Lotus in a landmark "look and smell" user interface copyright suit.
Elcompco: insignificant small company. software, peripherals, and drives
for TRS-80 in a case with a smoked plexiglass cover. One sold at VCF a
few years ago; I have the prototype. Introduced BMC-80 (complete machine
in Halliburton attache case). Adam Osborne admired it for a while, but a
few hours LATER introduced the Osborne 1, and claimed that IT was the
"FIRST AND ONLY" all in one machine. Their booth had $10K of chrome and
black plexiglass; but WE had cold beer. Elcompco is now in SF doing
elevator computers (which was the original intent of the name)
GPA: small company. serial printer interface for TRS-80 (without
E.I.) Overshadowed by, but compatible with, TRS-232
Computer Currents (Emeryville): Stan Politi's computer newspaper,
originally named "Computer Classifieds". Swallowed by
IDG; regurgitated; merged recently with "Computer User".
Microtimes (Oakland): Computer newspaper, same publisher as BAM (music)
A few years ago, they fired Mary Eisentern as editor. Now they're gone.
How complete and coprehensive a list do you want?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 15:43:40 GMT