27 Jan
2004
27 Jan
'04
11:53 a.m.
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Christian Fandt wrote:
I'm surprised, as GRiDs have generally been popular for collectors
(especially the early models).
I've never heard of the Panasonic CF-150B, though I would guess it's just
a re-badged Casio or Radio Shack model.
Ooops, In my attempt at trying to be somewhat brief in
describing my
GRiDLite Plus 1040 I did not indicate to everybody that it had a regular
keyboard (83 keys). This is not a tablet computer (I've heard of GridPad;
is that what you're thinking of Sellam?). It looks very much like many
Yes, the GRiD Pad. Those are cool.
typical laptops of the late 1980's except it's
all in Johnny Cash Black
;) I can email several digital images to those who may be interested in
seeing what the thing looks like. Just email me.
Ah yes. By that time GRiDs no longer had the handsome magnesium alloy
case but were plastic and not much different than whatever else was on the
market at the time. Tandy re-badged them and sold them under their name
as well.
Recall that I mentioned only one website, in German,
which gave some
substantive info on my GRiDLite and that it mentioned only PenPoint,
Penwindows, PenRight as being the OSs that the thing used. Maybe the
website owner is incorrect although he also listed the thing having a touch
screen?
He may have been mistaken. I've since learned that PenRight is an OS that
Symbol uses/used on some of its handheld barcode scanners.
The guy (as far
as I know) to talk to about GRiD computers is Rob
Borsari, who brought close to 15 GRiD's (including a nice prototype) to
VCF 6.0. As luck would have it, John Ellenby, there to participate in the
Alto panel, was also the founder of GRiD :)
Whoa, cool! A source of info! Except for you Sellam, my email has been dead
silent on my request for any info on this GRiDLite Plus (same for the
Panasonic CF-150B Business Partner I found at the same place :-( ) Anybody mind if I give a brief report on what I find
out from Mr. Borsari
on the GRiDLite Plus (if anything)?
It certainly can't hurt!
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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