At 12:14 AM 12/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
The military once procured a bunch of XT-like machines
that were portable
and keyboardless. Everything was done thru a touchscreen, including a
virtual keyboard. About five years ago, there were a bunch floating around
the hamfests in the Chicago area.
The GridPad 1910 that I have has a 'virtual' keyboard. Nice machine; I just
wish I could find some GPS/Mapping software that would run on it so I could
mount it in my Land Rover... (Or a 486/pentium version?)
How about a
portable UNIX workstation with a ~21" gas plasma display? I've
actually seen such a beast.
Yes, portable Unix machines do exist! The SPARCstation Voyager is somewhat
like what you describe. It is a luggable monster, and was replaced by the
SPARCbooks some time ago.
The problem with the Sun notebooks (which I'd *love* to have if anyone wants
to get rid of one) is that they're darned expensive and I'm poor. 8^) I
suspect a unix workstation with a 21" gas plasma display ain't gonna be
cheap either!
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