On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
thing...) It had a flip-up 80x16 screen, and was the
first laptop with a
built-in floppy drive. It was a Zenith OEM but shared a few characteristics
Really? What year did this come out?
My brain wants to say '86 or '87, but having just moved, it's packed
somewhere... I'll see if I can find it in the next day or two & find out...
There were a few computers before the Tandy 600 with a built-in disk
drive. The first that I can think of off-hand and which would have been
the earliest is the Gavilan. It featured a 3" disk drive.
Or did you mean 3.5" disk drive specifically?
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