4 Mar
2005
4 Mar
'05
7:13 a.m.
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:32 -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
For a PPC ThinkPad I'd gladly get used to that :)
The p70 was MCA, had one 32-bit and one 16-bit slot. This meant... You
could insert a full System/370 CPU!!
Imagine that, a VMS portable...!
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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>
>>>> "Tore" == Tore S Bekkedal <Tore> writes:
Tore> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:00 -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
> 4. The IBM "butterfly" 486 laptop
Tore> A lot of the early portable/laptop machines were interesting,
Tore> x86 arch nonwithstanding.
Tore> The coolest laptop I know is the IBM PS/2 p70... I'd be most
Tore> interested if anyone had this or the p75 in Norway.
Did you ever see the PowerPC laptop? I don't know anything about it,
but I saw one in the hands of an IBM Zurich R&D Lab person. Looked
just like a plain old Thinkpad, but it ran Unix and I'm 95% sure it
had a PowerPC, not an x86 processor.
Oh yes, it also had a French keyboard to mess up the rest of the
world, with the letters in the wrong place... :-)