15 Sep
2012
15 Sep
'12
8:35 a.m.
the laptop. When pressed, they claimed theirs was the
"first" with a
286 (who knows), and that clearly a laptop is only a laptop if it's
got a 286 or newer.
> YOU might need to speak up (7 years ago)! if it's the one that I think
> that they're talking about, it was a clamshell, but only ran off of
> mains power!
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Evan Koblentz wrote:
I'm referring to the T1100.
That was 386?
I thought that their 286 clamshell was the 3100 (plasma? display and AC
cord)
Or am I totally scrambled as to their numbering (1200 before 1000, etc.)
News to me if it only ran off AC -- in which
case (surprise) I declare it a portable computer ("one that's primarily
designed to be an easy-to-move-around all-in-one system")
How did the word "easy" get in there?
Had I realized the T1100's no-battery status (if
indeed that's the truth
about it), then I would have made a big ruckus about it at the time.