[rescue] Cool new gadget

[Steve Hatle]

On 3/11/03 7:56 AM, "Tim H." <lists at pellucidar.net> wrote:

>> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
>> 
> Nope, I have a machine and it lights up.  I haven't opened it up to see
> if it is actually a z80 or if it is the 8086 card I read about.  The
> disks are supposedly a 360K capacity, but I don't know whether they are
> 1 or 2 sided, and if they are hard or soft sectored.  I will hopefully
> get a chunk of time this weekend open it up, and see what I have, as
> well as to check out the TRS80 Model 1s I got out and put on the dining
> room table last weekend.  I've developed an 8 bit itch lately :-)
> 
> Tim
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I think I can help- I have an Otrona, given to me by a former co-worker, and
it came with media. It boots to DOS, I believe, though it's been ages since
I've fired it up. On the good side, I know exactly where it is, so getting
reacquainted shouldn't be hard.

Assuming I can, I'd be happy to make copies of any media I have and send
them along.

As a historical note, the guy I got it from was one of the original
developers of the "Reader Rabbit" line of software, and apparently a good
chunk of that code was done on this Otrona.

I'll loop back after I dig it out in the next couple of days.

Steve