22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
9:15 p.m.
Rumor has it that Curt @ Atari Museum may have mentioned these words:
Gee... lets just completely overlook the Apple Mac
Portable
Oh, they didn't overlook it - check page 5 under their "Flops" listing...
:-/
They have an awfully shoddy way of considering "flops but technically
advanced so it's good" like the Gavilan SC, but "flops but technically
advanced so it's still a flop" like the IBM Thinkpad 701C (Think Butterfly
keyboard - the only laptop keyboard that even came *close* to the keyboard
on my Tandy 200.)
and mention the Powerbook 100 instead... The Tandy
100 could've gotten
a mention,
It did (but just barely) at the same time as the Epson HX-20... but their
supposed facts of "but 16K didn't get you far, even in 1982..." Pffft. 16K
was a darned good start back then, and the Tandy 100 could go to 32K
without trouble; much more depending on how much you wanted to spend on 3rd
party schtuff.
They did totally err on another thing - the first "full clamshell" laptop
was the Tandy 200, which came out in '85, 4 years before the NEC UltraLite.
even the Atari Portfolio could've gotten a
mention too.
Or the STacy...
Its times like this, you want to roll those mags up and
shove it up the
editors arse !!! ;-)
Or just not buy it. ;-)
Their idea of the 13 "critical machines" to me is disappointing - The Sony
Picturebook at best has had minimal market impact and is rarely seen
outside Japan; they whine about the Mac Portable's price of $7000 yet $3000
for an underpowered machine is OK (ooOOoo but it's got a webcam!) Pfft.
They're idiots, plain and simple.
Keep moving, nothing to see here...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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