This was Xerox essentially following SONY (check out their Model 30 Word
Processor -- early 80s -- and the portable keyboard capture device that you
could get with it. I think SONY invented the 3.5" floppy for this machine).
The Xerox Sunrise came years later but is very similar to the portable keyboard
capture device. I'm not sure that the Sunrise was ever a full-fledged product.
Cheers,
Alan
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From: Casey Ransberger <[email protected]>
To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 1:19 AM
Subject: [fonc] [HISTORY][MYSTERY][THRILLS][OT] Sunrise anyone?
There's a local computer/electronics store that basically resells old unloved
gear in the neighborhood called Re-PC. While the band was buying adapters at
the counter, your intrepid bassist wandered off to the little computer museum
at the back in order to drool over the PDP-8 a little and saw this odd little
thing:
The card next to it just said, where there's usually an interesting blurb:
"Xerox Sunrise (???)
19??
We used to know all about this.
Re-PC Certificate of Antiquity"
It looked like some kind of word processor with the long LCD display line, but
the micro cassette drive on the right and accompanying speaker (which seemed a
bit large just for a beeper) had me curious. There's also an accompanying disk
drive thingie so I was sure it wasn't just a word processor. Googling tells me
it ran CP/M and didn't live long as a product, but not much else, at least at
first glance.
The tag seemed to indicate that at one point there was an interesting story
associated with the machine. Anyone know anything about it or why it wasn't
made for very long?
--
Casey Ransberger
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