Anyone know anything about this system? Someone on a vintage computer group
on Facebook has one (missing its keyboard[1]), and having seen some photos,
although it seems to be mostly a generic PC-compatible with 8-bit ISA, it's
notable for having a "video in" connector on the back, as well as
I can not see the picture but could it be an alphabook? Forgive me if this
sounds like a joke,, but there a very short lived hardware called an Alphabook.
Ran very hot, to hot for a laptop and weighed 14 pounds. If you have one I
would hold onto it, People have mistakeny thought it was lapto
Alphabook is indeed a real thing; it was made by RDI, IIRC. They also did a
HPPA laptop as well as their more commonly known SPARC machines sold in
competition against Tadpole. These machines all suffered from the vices you
describe however some people seem to still dig them just to have the exotic
On 08/29/2015 01:39 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
But I think the OP is describing something that's significantly older;
maybe some kind of early near-PC-compatible x86 machine?
Yes, it's a desktop system. From what I can make out from the photos, IC
dates seem to be in 1987. I don't know what CPU it
>Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 9:12 PM
>From: "Jules Richardson"
>Yes, it's a desktop system. From what I can make out from the photos, IC
>dates seem to be in 1987. I don't know what CPU it has - the owner just
>mentioned it as being pre-'386 - but it's odd to see an 8 bit ISA bus in
>someth
Jules Richardson writes:
> Yes, it's a desktop system.
There's a news article about the FX series of machines in "Electronics
and Power", January 1983, p89:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5186775
"They will be IBM compatible, and will offer built-in
local-area-networking ca
On 08/29/2015 04:10 PM, Steve Hunt wrote:
I'm guessing this is it:
http://www.sekaimon.com/i361201143538
Scroll down to find the images of a desktop unit. The pics look just
like an FX31 that was advertised on ebay.co.uk earlier on this year.
Yes, that's the critter!
On 08/30/2015 08:54 AM, Adam Sampson wrote:
Jules Richardson writes:
Yes, it's a desktop system.
There's a news article about the FX series of machines in "Electronics
and Power", January 1983, p89:
Thanks for all the info - I've passed it on to the guy who has the machine.
He's going to
