1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
1:32 p.m.
>>>> "Tore" == Tore S Bekkedal
<Tore> writes:
Tore> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 15:00 -0500, 9000 VAX wrote:
> 4. The IBM "butterfly" 486 laptop
Tore> A lot of the early portable/laptop machines were interesting,
Tore> x86 arch nonwithstanding.
Tore> The coolest laptop I know is the IBM PS/2 p70... I'd be most
Tore> interested if anyone had this or the p75 in Norway.
Did you ever see the PowerPC laptop? I don't know anything about it,
but I saw one in the hands of an IBM Zurich R&D Lab person. Looked
just like a plain old Thinkpad, but it ran Unix and I'm 95% sure it
had a PowerPC, not an x86 processor.
Oh yes, it also had a French keyboard to mess up the rest of the
world, with the letters in the wrong place... :-)
paul