7 Aug
2002
7 Aug
'02
7:23 a.m.
Rumor has it that Sellam Ismail may have mentioned these words:
My brain wants to say '86 or '87, but having just moved, it's packed
somewhere... I'll see if I can find it in the next day or two & find out...
[[ quick jaunt to google... ]]
Found one timeline that places it at Nov. '85... According to the Tandy 600
FAQ, it was announced on 28 Oct. '85, so my memory was close... but I've
always been a bit off... [ ba-da-bum. Splat.]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Tough to say... but could be!?!?
I'd even say that the [not previously
mentioned] Tandy 600 wouldn't be
Wintel... It runs an 8088 & uses an MS operating system called HH/OS (short
for HandHeld OS - which is a serious misnomer due to the weight of the
Hmm, the pre-cursor of WinCE? thing...) It
had a flip-up 80x16 screen, and was the first laptop with a
built-in floppy drive. It was a Zenith OEM but shared a few characteristics
Really? What year did this come out?