On Thursday 28 November 2002 17:53, rpatel_at_accelrys.com wrote:
> >I even seem to remember a ZX Spectrum derivative aimed at the Buzy
> >Professional On The Move <TM>.
>
> Ah yes the Cambridge Z88
That's the one! I've still got one of their brochures somewhere. I
remember it was pretty funny stuff. WYSISYG was to them a poststamp-sized
picture of how your page might look like.
> http://www.algonet.se/~dennisgr/z88.htm
>
> >I think a student can get better value by buing a three year old laptop
> >with a couple of spare batteries. If space is at a premium, why not go
>
> for
>
> >one of the older Toshiba Librettos? They seem to go for comparable
> > prices
> >
> >on eBay.
>
> Ditto. I think the Compaq Aero (Intel 486sx or something similar) was
> pretty nifty in a minimalist kind of way too.
Before I got my MP2k I had a HP Omnibook 425. It was not much bigger than
a Newton, had a very good keyboard (better than Newton's), would run for
hours and had a 40 meg PC Card disk. It was - until its CPU died - a very
good notetaking machine.
Unfortunately, the operating system was Windows 3.1 (XIP execution from
ROM), but it did come with XIP-enabled versions of Word 2 and Excel 4, the
only two products ever to come out of Redmond that were actually sort of
worth the price one paid for them.
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