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- N A U T I L U S E X E C U T I V E B R I E F C A S E
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- Traditionally, or so we're told, good things have come in small packages.
- The unfortunate truth in the computer world is that small packages
- often mean compromises of one type or the other.
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- Until now, briefcase computing meant having to live with small unreadable
- displays and incompatible disk drive formats; which meant waiting on your
- favorite software to be re-published to feed these 'almost but not quite
- PC compatible' machines.
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- Enter the Nautilus Executive Briefcase (TM) from Nautilus Software of
- Iola, Kansas. This twelve pound system offers features only found in
- desktop units many times it's size, and weight. The machine, custom
- manufactured by Morrow Designs in California for Nautilus, sports a black
- high-impact-resistant case with a nifty removable carrying strap
- incorporated into the top. Set the unit down, fold out the full-
- function keyboard, and you have a large 80 x 25 line backlit contrast-
- controllable LCD screen. I found the screen to be the most readable of
- any thusfar on the market.
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- The Executive has twin IBM compatible, 5 1/4" disk drives on the right
- side, with drive A: being the closest to the front. Now, any programs
- that are being used on the office PC can be taken out in the field,
- without having to wait until they become available on mini-disk,
- and without the hassle of having to carry a freestanding 15 pound 5 1/4"
- drive.
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- On the back of the system is a standardized parallel printer port, RS-
- 232 serial port, RGB color out, and a 300-1200 baud internal modem for
- full telecommunications. The left side of the unit carries the
- on/off switch, and screen contrast control and internal battery pack
- housing.
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- The Executive Briefcase uses the Zenith ROM image for superior IBM PC
- compatibility, and will operate on the internal battery for around 3 hours
- (while on battery power the internal RGB color board is turned off to
- conserve the battery power). The unit comes with MSDOS 2.1 and will
- operate on PC DOS 2.0, 2.1, and 3.1.
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- Nautilus is so confident of it's systems' compatibility factor with
- your IBM-PC based software that they put a money-back guarantee
- on their machine. If it won't run your program, return the
- system to your authorized Nautilus dealer within 10 days for a complete
- refund!
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- What makes this package even more attractive is the software packaged with
- the machine. Nautilus has included a mouse operated icon based operating
- shell which behaves suspiciously like the Macintosh, with one
- exception... Nautilus claims over 10,000 PC programs are ready to run on
- it. This operating shell contains a desktop organizer, telecommunications
- package, and a HOT word processing package with a spelling dictionary.
- The mouse attaches to the computer's serial port, and comes standard with
- the system.(For hard-core PC users, the icon-based shell can be ignored.)
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- Use of the system is delightfuly simple. When the machine initially
- boots, a world map and current time and date appear on the screen.
- The user can keep track of all the different time zones by simply shifting
- the position of the cursor, which moves the time zone indicator across
- the projection of the world map. The time automatically changes as
- the indicator moves. I found this a useful feature for those who
- travel and, like myself, can't keep track of the time back home.......
- let me see do you subtract five or six hours? From this display, you
- move to the icon based operating system, and can access which ever part of
- the package you need.
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- Standard configuration will be 640k (expandable to 1.2 meg of ram, in a
- non-PC compatible configuration) with two 40 track IBM compatible 5 1/4"
- disk drives, the 80 x 25 backlit LCD screen, RGB color out, Serial and
- Parallel ports, an internal 300-1200 baud modem (on com port 2) an
- international switching power supply for you globe trotters, and the
- software packages mentioned above.
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- Offered as options with the Nautilus Executive (TM) is an absolutely super
- crisp, 9" RGB monitor with swivel base and a .28 dot pitch picture tube, a
- free-standing, 5 1/4" 10 meg. removable hard disk cartridge disk
- drive, which will plug directly into the back of the unit, and a matching
- thermal printer which will also run for about two hours on internal
- rechargable batteries.
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- This system will meet all the requirements of those salesmen, engineers,
- CPA's and auditors who are using IBM PC based software in the office and
- want to carry a light, portable IBM compatible system into the field.
- We're finally freed from our desktops! Suggested retail price for
- the Nautilus Executive Briefcase (TM) at this time is $3,495.00 with
- software, or $2,495.00 less mouse, software, modem, and carrying case.
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- For further information contact Robin C. Boyer at Nautilus Software,
- 103 West St., Iola, KS. 66749. 316-365-5794 for voice and 316-365-7631
- for a 300/1200/2400 baud data line.
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- David W. Schaefer, Commerce Bank of Mexico, Mo.
- 09/15/85