[Coco] Howard Medical

[Chester A Patterson]

Howard Medical was just a name created by the company owner, Ross
Litton. Company is still there, big warehouse and maybe 6...8 persons
strong. Selling predominantly to the Chicago hospital circuit. Mostly
bedside clipboards and simple stuff. Made especially to the individual
hospital's strict (and non-standard) specifications, which drives cost
up. The Coco business was a wild hare (pun intended) and at the time was
pretty neat. There were two of us doing that for Ross in the mid-late
80's, then there was one, then none... Also did intnernal and external
hard drives for the old Tandy HX and EX machines. Gosh! Doing low level
formats with debug and all that rot. Man did we have fun back then!

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Flexser [mailto:flexser at fiu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:32 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] 2 x 3.5 Drives on CoCo

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Chester Patterson
<chester6809 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Back in the mid-late 80's, when I worked at Howard Medical (a Coco 
> hardware vendor in Chicago), ....


Always did wonder why a CoCo vendor  would be called "Howard Medical".
Did they sell medical equipment also, or what?  (Or maybe "Howard
Medical" is the name of a person, though that strikes me as highly
unlikely, even if his parents were hoping he'd become a doctor.)

Art