24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
2:17 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Well, considering my 80x86-based laptop (which is
over 20 years
old) runs for well over 10 hours before needeing a charge....
[Of coruse it does't have a backlit display. or a colour display, or
internal disk drives. You don't use it to watch movies. The memory is row
after row of 6264s, the battery islead-acid. No prizes for guessing what
it is]
An HP Omnibook? That had a really long battery life. Although now that I
think of it, that wouldn't be old enough.
Back when I worked in a computer store, we sold hundreds of these things. I
didn't like them at all because of the display. But business people thought
they were great. I especially liked the pop-out mouse. It was an amazingly
simple and elegant design. You could even use it in mid-air on an
airplane.
brian