Identify old PC

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 01:14:24 CDT 2018


Its possibly something like but not exactly a Raytheon, Sweda,  Lanier etc
or similar business machine just before the IBM PC

I have never seen this one.
Bill

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 1:53 AM jim stephens via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

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> On 10/18/2018 10:37 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > On 10/18/18 9:56 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >> The sides are not square like any Imsai I saw, and there is a monitor on
> >> top, which is also in a slope case.  I don't recognize it, but as I said
> >> the Altos look like one of the 58x (I think) looks similar.
> > Don't think so---the trapezoidal monitor case is wrong for an ACS586, as
> > well as the case being too tall--the 586 FH drive faceplates came right
> > up to the top of the system cover.
> I was saying more reminded of Altos.  Maybe early versions, not sure.  I
> agree it doesn't match it at all.
>
> All the Altos boxes I have are 8" floppy boxes w/o that nonsense, so
> haven't got a lot of experience with those.
>
> And you're right the Commodore thing is going on there too.
> thanks
> Jim
> > In a way, it resembles a Commodore PET but for the shape of the system
> > unit, which looks like a CBM 4040 drive box.  Did such a box ever have
> > the option for a 5.25" hard disk drive?
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
> >
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