Last year, I acquired a copy of the 1984 Morrow Pivot Owner’s Handbook, the manual for the portable MS-DOS computer manufactured by Morrow Designs, which was written by John VanderWood and illustrated by Bill McCarty. Of course, Morrow Designs founder and chairman George Morrow was a longtime Computer Chronicles contributor. Morrow’s first appearance on the show was on a January 1985 program where he demonstrated the Pivot.

I’ve scanned the full manual, which you can download here or at the Internet Archive. This is actually the second edition of the manual. Notably, this edition contains several “inserted” pages with point numbers, such as “7.1” and “7.2.” This was likely done to avoid the additional time and expense of redoing the manual’s index, which in those days still had to be done by hand.

George Morrow was a regular contributor to the early seasons of Computer Chronicles, providing commentary on industry trends and filling in for Gary Kildall as co-host. He was also the chairman of Morrow Designs, a manufacturer of microcomputers founded in the period before the IBM PC took the market by storm. But the company's 10-year run came to an arbupt end in early 1986 after losing out on a key government contract to provide portable computers to the IRS.