26 May
2004
26 May
'04
4:21 p.m.
On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, Vintage Computer Festival, wrote:
You'll have to pay some decent money for it, but if
you've been looking
for an Outbound for a while, here's an opportunity:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5701457714
The Outbound is an interesting laptop. Produced in the late 1980's (or
early 1990s?) it was an answer to Apple's lack of a decent laptop. You
had to pull the ROMs from your SE in order to use it though, as they
shipped without ROMs to avoid getting sued by Apple.
To clarify a subtle point, that's the Outbound "Notebook". The Outbound
"Laptop" is an earlier model that looks like this: <http://
www.applefritter.com/macclones/outbound/laptop/sideways.jpg>
The Laptop was pretty neat in that it had a detachable infra-red keyboard.
Tom
Applefritter
www.applefritter.com
