Negative, Ghost Rider! The GRiD Compass was released in late '82-early
'83, the first shuttle flight was in 1981. I also have a bulletin that
Otrona released (circa late '84, not long after the release of the Otrona
2001), talking about how another company would take over service &
support since they had gone under & couldn't afford it. It also gave a
brief history of Otrona & the Attache, which the bulletin said they
released in 1981 (Otrona themselves wrote this bulletin, so I'm not
arguing it!).
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:33:17 -0800 (PST), "Vintage Computer Festival"
<vcf_at_siconic.com> said:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Vohs wrote:
>
> > One even flew on the space shuttle! I suppose this was before they
> > changed to GRiDs. Can anyone confirm?
>
> As far as I know, the GRiD Compass went up on the first Shuttle flight.
> Or at least, I'm certain it went up before an Attache did, since the
> Attache wasn't produced until well after the GRiD was around.
>
> One site puts the Attache at 1984, which sounds appropriate.
>
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