Outbound Laptop; Was: Mac OS vintage

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:26:08 -0800 From: "Billy Pettit" <Billy.Pettit at wdc.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Outbound Laptop; Was: Mac OS vintage Reply-to: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>

Jeff Walther wrote: Additionally, the Outbound Laptop is an interesting beast in that it uses 2.5" IDE hard drives. This is the first Macintosh to use an

Jeff Walther --------------- I'm not familiar with the Outbound Laptop. What was the model number? I do know that I was supporting Apple at Quantum in early 1994 and qualified an IDE 2.5 inch drive for their laptops. It was one of the Blackbird series, 160 if I remember correctly. Was made in Taiwan by Tatung as an ODM. For a disk drive engineer, it was an unpleasant machine - the drive was mounted above the CPU chip, dumping all the heat into the drive. Quantum could never get it to meet Apple's temperature requirements with this handicap. When Apple pushed hard, Quantum canceled the program and got out of the 2.5 inch business - no way could they be profitable with those temperature specs and Apple's pricing structure. Billy