Can anyone identify this portable?

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jul 27 13:23:55 2004

At 06:16 PM 7/27/04 +0200, you wrote:
>dave04a_at_dunfield.com wrote:
>
>> It is a "box" machine line the early IBM portable or Compaq portable.
>> It has a monochrome screen (CRT), somewhat to left of center. Left of the
>> screen is "open space". To the right of the screen are three 1/2 height
>> 5.25" drive bays running horizontally (on this machine it has a floppy,
>> a hard drive and what looks like a filler plate). Below the drive bays
>> there are four "knobs" and what looks like it may be a switch. On the far
>> right (beside the knobs) it looks like they keyboard cable comes out of a
>> hole in the front panel.
>
>> I have posted the picture he sent at:
>
>> http://www.dunfield.com/pub/portable.jpg
>
>> Anyone know what this is?
>
>The name Columbia comes to mind when I saw this photo.

  I don't think it's a Columbia. At least not one of their standard models.
I used to own one and I've looked at plenty of others but none looked like
this. Columbias were also well labeled. My guess is that's it's a clone.
What does the BIOS copywrite message say?

   Joe


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> -- Hans
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