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Re: OT: Late 80's Infomercial - Type of Computer?



Joe Seeley <joe@smoe.com> writes:
 
>infomercials that was in the format of a phoney talk show and had a "boy 
>genius" as the guest.  He was demonstarting this "incredibly sophisticated 
>device" which actually was a very crude (even by the standards of the time) 
>lunchbox luggable PC of some sort with a tiny black and white built in screen. 
> The PC used 5 1/4" and kicked output onto a nine pin dot matrix.  The program 
 
 
>My question is: What type of PC?  I remember thinking it was a Commodore 64 
 
 
Sounds like the ill-fated "OSBORNE".  It was about the size
of a sewing machine.
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  |homas