28 Feb
2005
28 Feb
'05
7:27 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, James Fogg wrote:
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:00 -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
> Before you guys start to laugh at me, I would like to itemize some.
> 1. The original IBM PC 5150/5160 MB
> 2. The HP 100LX, 200LX palm PC
> 3. The original Nexgen pentium class PC
> 4. The IBM "butterfly" 486 laptop
> 5. You name it
The first Compaq portable; it was notable for it's "portability"
but also it's high degree of IBM compatiblity (for the time).
The AT&T 6300 was one of the first (I don't know what was first;
possibly the Eagle) to use the Phoenix BIOS, which was a MAJOR
milestone in PC history; these two things were the start of the
huge ramp-up of "compatibles".