25 Mar
1998
25 Mar
'98
7:33 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Doug Yowza once stated:
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, David Mather wrote:
And it's not quite 100% IBM compatible as the serial ports are different.
But it does support CGA graphics (320x200 4 color, 640x200 2 color) and it
was expandable to 464K (approximately, I don't recall and I'm a bit lazy to
look it up 8-P RAM and two 3.5" disks (internal).
The screen is difficult to read, but for what I paid for mine ($0) it's
been a great deal (and yes, I do use mine at least once a week).
-spc (I just don't have the batteries for it though ... )
Well - it wasn't non-descript at the time!
It had a full-size (80x25) LCD
display and WAS the first >truly< portable PC compatible - depending what
you meant by truly of course. Compaq and Olivetti (and Zenith?)
had luggable things compared to which the DG1 was extremely
elegant, especially with the rather smart beige/brown DG trim. At the
time it had "buy me" written all over it.
Both HP and GRiD had similar >truly< portable PC's out before the DG/One.
The HP 110 was battery-powered, so the DG/One doesn't even get the earlier
distinction I gave it of being the first battery-powered clamshell.
However, neither the GRiD nor the HP were 100% IBM compatible, so the
DG/One may be the winner there.