"Fond memories", was "Re: Interesting video"

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_computer-refuge.org>
Date: Tue Jun 8 16:31:28 2004

On Tuesday 08 June 2004 16:25, Ron Hudson wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Don Maslin wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
> >> On Jun 5, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Don Maslin wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Ron Hudson wrote:
> >>>> Careful frame by frame viewing shows a computer I had once, and
> >>>> wish I
> >>>> had again..
> >>>>
> >>>> The Televideo (mumble model cuz I forgot) CGA+10mb IBM AT
> >>>> Or the next one, Televideo portable... :^)
> >>>
> >>> Sounds like the TS-803H and the TPC-1.
> >>>
> >>> - don
> >>
> >> I think the TS-803H was a CPM machine... Televideo made those and
> >> they looked
> >> the same but never a cga like screen
> >>
> >> Monitor that tilts attached to a vertical motherboard with two
> >> floppies
> >> stacked sideways (short edges - stacked tall)
> >
> > Yes, the TS-803H was a CP/M machine and its monitor was not CGA.
> >
> >> TPC was the portable - I don't think they ever
> >> made a cpm portable.
> >
> > Au contraire! The TPC-1 was a CP/M machine. I have one.
>
> Is the TPC-1 a monitor next to a slab next to a floppy hd or floppy
> pair?

No, that's the 803 they talked about above.

> I though it was more the osbourn

Yep, looked sorta like an O-1.

There was also a TPC-II that was an 8088 (pc compatible) version of the
TPC-I, which is what I had when I was a kid.

First hit in google:
http://www.total.net/~hrothgar/museum/TPC1/

I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a TPC-I or TPC-II again.

Pat
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