12 Nov
1998
12 Nov
'98
7:32 a.m.
At 05:23 PM 11/12/98, Joe Rigdon wrote:
There was also a Portable III. I have five of
them!! They're a little
larger than a lunch box and have a 12 MHz 286 CPU and a fold out gas plasma
screen. They have a place for a MODEM on an ISA card in the bottom of the
case. And a place for a memory expansion card that held up to six SIMMs.
The SIMMS that were available were 256K or 1 meg so you could have up to 6
Megs & 640K of memory. There was an option to add a box on the back that
contained an 8 bit and a 16 bit ISA slots. Mine have the box with the ISA
card slots and I use them for portable instrument controllers.
Gotta be one of the most well-build machines I've ever seen. We
have some here in the lab that are 10 years old and they still get
used constantly for data comm applications. Love that plasma display.
Alex