I'll take some photo's and email them to you, I have a few of them in
various stages and I think I have one bare board as well, I think they still
say Mindset on them, will let you know in like an hour, I have all of the
Mindset stuff out as I was cleaning and working on a dual drive unit last
week and I had to replace a bad p/s on another just recently.
Curt
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From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: "Mindset" machine?
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Curt Vendel wrote:
>
> > Sure, its a Mindset M1001 System. 80186 processor, BitBltr custom
> > graphics processor, custom expansion bus. IBM compatible, incredible
> > graphics for its time (1983) The company was founded by Roger
> > Baderscher, the former head of Atari's Home Computer Division
> > (1981-1982) the machine was partially conceived while at Atari and then
> > Baderscher left along with several Atari marketing and engineering
> > people. They designed a phenomenal machine, but lacked capital to stay
> > afloat. JVC bought the company and ended up using all of it internally
> > and Mindset disappeared from the public's eye and the technology was
> > used up till the early 90's, with revisions to the system original on
> > the M1001 design, then a later design the M3000 which was specifically a
> > rack mounted video processing station. The key software product on the
> > Mindset that fully exploited its high end graphics was the Luminere
> > software packages.
>
> What does the M3000 look like? Did it have the Mindset name or JVC? I'm
> wondering if it would be possible to find one.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
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