27 Nov
1997
27 Nov
'97
11:36 a.m.
<From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
<Didn't DEC make a tabletop model of one of the PDP8's (PDP8/e?) which had
<handles? That would date from about the same time as the P850
A number of the 8 series aquired desktop status but never by intent
portable. They simply weren't rack bound.
The HP???? struck me as something portable(toteable) as it was a complete
machine that could be moved be moved from one place to another as a unit.
The earliest thing I'd seen that was portable was a home brew 8080 system
with build in keyboard and TV RF output back in '75 and it wasn't a PT SOL.
Though the core of it was S100 boards from an altair.
Allison