12 Jan
1998
12 Jan
'98
1:05 p.m.
I think if you consider the 5100 a portable, then so
should you consider the
PDP-8. The 5100, while more *convenient* to move, perhaps, than, say, an
Altair, is hardly all that portable. It's listed as 50lbs (a stretch even
for me) and has no handle. You tell me how that's a portable? (It's much
like a TRS-80 Model III, only flatter. I think the III is lighter though.)
I vote for the STM Baby.
Even if the implementation may be poor (ie. no handles), I think IBM
really did try to make the thing truely portable. After all, all you
needed to do was lug around _one_ 50 pound box to do useful things, rather
than a processor plus a tube or printer, and perhaps an external power
unit.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net