I finally was able to get a high quality scan of the Chameleon Plus advertisement I have! You could get double the memory and double the disk space a $1995 Chameleon could get you for less than double the price!
You can see the rest of my scans and photos regarding Seequa computers at https://seequa.org/gallery !
So here’s a fun one: from Seequa’s Odenton plant opening, they were running some sort of demo on the Chameleon being showcased. I’m trying to figure out 1. What it says and 2. How to recreate it. It looks like to me it says “EXPANSION”, but I’m perplexed how they got the font to be that big and more importantly why’d they need the left hand side text?
A solid 5 hours of work later, I finally added photos for every system on the Seequa preservation site! I stupidly have Seequa-related scans and such scattered across four different computers (not to mention my iCloud Drive being totally disorganized...), so organizing and rebuilding a large section of the site to correctly house these was no easy feat, but now complete!
You can check out the galleries here: https://seequa.org/gallery
With the newfound interest in the Tabor drivette and diskette, I figured I should take a brief diversion from my constant Seequa research scavenging and start attempting to compile some history about Tabor. 6 hours later, I have a handful of paragraphs.
You can read what I have so far at https://seequa.org/history/tabor ! If you happen to know anything about this company you want to add, please let me know!
The unobtainium piece of the Seequa collection has arrived, and wow is it smaller than I imagined! The Tabor 3.25” drivette for these little disks were designed in a collaborative effort between Dysan Corporation from California, Tabor Corporation from Massachusetts, and Seequa Computer Corporation from Maryland. These rigid plastic disks could hold 500K on a single disk, and were to be the new “golden standard” of format for any luggable IBM compatible.
I will have my 3.25” disk, my NOS Drivette, and the Tabor edge adapter on display alongside my Seequa research at VCF East and VCF Midwest!
With the (almost) certain discovery of a Seequa Cobra, here is one of the few write ups about it from 1984!
Jim Hoffman, former EVP of Seequa, had informed me few to one of these prototypes are probably floating around, so hopefully the case wasn't turned into scrap metal.
Check out this snippet of a Computer Shopper from 1987: Chameleon Schematics, Short Stuff expansion cards, and bare motherboards! Would love to know if anyone picked these up.
Matthew Jones