Seequa Chameleon

Twice the Computer

This ad is from the October 1983 issue of Byte Magazine.

The Seequa Chameleon was a luggable (the predecessor of the laptop). It was announced at the 1982 COMDEX show. It was marketed as being “Twice the Computer” because it had both an Intel 8088 and a Zilog Z-80 CPU, so it could run both MS-DOS and CP/M. The system was PC compatible and could run software available for the IBM PC. Unfortunately, the Chameleon was not very popular. It doesn’t look like the company released any other systems after this.

Here is a video showing the guts of the system, for those interested.

You can find more information here.

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