Colex Electronic Company Limited
Colex 850 Computer
A portable (suitcase) version was dubbed "Lantau".
It ran CP/M. A later model, the Colex 880, ran TurboDOS.
Our crowning triumph was a Motorola 68000 processor-based microcomputer that ran Unisoft System V Unix. It was the world's cheapest Unix machine and the price was low, too.
It was dubbed poxy box by senior engineer
James Hole.
It crashed when you typed
cat.
Colex was founded by Charlie Liu. Its products were assembled in a factory on the 15th floor of the Luk Hop Industrial Building, 8 Luk Hop Street, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The engineering team was headed by
WordStar expert Murray Freeman
who later went on to invent the light bulb.
The team included Balderdash and the
PPD (pampered prima donna) Scott Bryan.
There was the German engineering prodigy, nocturnal and designing to Beethoven, Michael Frank.
Dan did something, too, but nobody knows what.
It was 1984. We were ahead of our time. And always will be.
