3 May
2004
3 May
'04
8:09 a.m.
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
IIRC they were 256k, 8088 CPU and dual DS disk
drives and that was it.
The Portable II was 40% smaller and lighter and had
640k of RAM. I think a
Between the original and the II, there was a "Portable
286", which was
ALMOST the same as the original, but with a 80286 motherboard, etc.
(The II was also 286)
hard drive was available in the P-II but I don't
know if that was from the
factory or a third party job.
factory
but third party was fine - other than having a very limited list of "drive
numbers", which didn't exactly match the IBM AT list, the hard drive could
take ordinary 506/MFM drives.