On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 09:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
>> Is it just me or was there a small cp/m machine
>> named the Ortrana Attache?
>
> ? are you ALSO a small CP/M machine??
Why yes I am. But I don't have an 8088 add in card.
Any body remember the ERA computer store on El Camino near San Antonio,
that's where I saw an Otrona Attache, I'll trade a compaq lunchbox 286
or 386 for one... :^)
>
> It was Otrona Attache.
> It was exceptionally portable. They did an ad showing a Charlie
> Chaplin
> trying to carry a PC down stairs on a table; one of the first cases
> where
> IBM's lawyers enforced their ownership of Charlie Chaplin as a
> trademark
> for computers (purchased from his estate - his personal politics would
> not
> have gone for an association with IBM)
>
> It had 40 track per side drives that were upgradable to 80 track per
> side.
> There was an 8088 coprocessor add-in card for MS-DOS!
>
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>
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