FWIW: Data General One Laptop spotted for sale

I paid $5.00 for my Data General One. It's a piece of junk. The screen is IMPOSSIBLE to read, just as Data General boasts about it (go figure this for something to be proud of) at their web site. It is a large and heavy laptop and from a collector standpoint, in my opinion, isn't worth persuing unless you can get it on the cheap $15.00 to $25.00 maximum as a curiosity. An 8086/8088 system by any other name is an 8086/8088 system. $500.00 is a joke. Dream on. Marty Mintzell ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: FWIW: Data General One Laptop spotted for sale Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 3/25/98 1:46 AM On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Greg Troutman wrote: The DG/One was a fairly non-descript early 8086 laptop. According to DG's website, it was the "first truly portable" PC and they made 43,000 of them: http://www.dg.com/about/html/dg-one.html I don't know what a reasonable offer would be, but it's apparently more than the $15 I offered :-) GRiD's clamshell-style Compass laptop preceded the DG/One by a couple of years (and the GRiD is *much* cooler, IMHO). Perhaps the DG/One was the first battery-powered PC-compatible laptop? I can't think of an earlier one of the top of my head. -- Doug ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists3.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9i(b5) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Mar25.014640.1767.33770; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:46:40 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with SMTP id VAA10991; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:36:57 -0800 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id VAA31470 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>du>; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:36:49 -0800 Received: from behemoth.host4u.net (behemoth.host4u.net [209.150.128.29]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id VAA06816 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>du>; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:36:48 -0800 Received: from localhost (yowza@localhost) by behemoth.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA24149 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>du>; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:36:46 -0600 Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980324232833.32316P-100000(a)behemoth.host4u.net> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 23:36:46 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: FWIW: Data General One Laptop spotted for sale In-Reply-To: <3518960C.6C568139(a)crl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> X-Sender: yowza(a)behemoth.host4u.net X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN