Engineering:Seequa Chameleon

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Short description: Early 1980s luggable personal computer

The Seequa Chameleon was an early 1980s luggable personal computer; it was capable of running both the DOS and CP/M operating systems. It did so by having both Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088 microprocessors.[1][2][3][4][5]

While it ran MS-DOS and approximated the hardware capabilities of the IBM PC, it was highly PC compatible, being able to run such programs as Flight Simulator but was not a huge success in the market.

Seequa Computer Corporation was based in Annapolis, Maryland.[6] It was founded by David Gardner (President) and Dave Egli (CEO), one of David's business professors at the University of Maryland. Seequa competed against the early "transportable" computers from Compaq.

See also

  • Tabor Drivette - a non-standard 3.25-inch diskette drive used in the Seequa Chameleon 325

References

  1. Hardware:Review:Seequa Chameleon, By Russ Adams, Page 132, 1983-11-28, InfoWorld
  2. Seequa Chamelion on OldComputers.net
  3. The Chameleon mystery, By David Needle, Page 5, 1983-01-31, InfoWorld
  4. Review Responses: Seequa, By John Schaefer, Page 66, 1984-01-30, InfoWorld
  5. A Garden of Portables:The Chameleon Plus, By Barbara E. and John F. McMullen, Page 124, 1984-04-03, PC Mag
  6. Sandberg-Diment, Erik (March 13, 1984). "Rivals Stay One Step Ahead of I.B.M. Portable". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/13/science/personal-computers-rivals-stay-one-step-ahead-of-ibm-portable.html.