22 Nov
2002
22 Nov
'02
2:23 a.m.
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
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22 Nov
2:41 a.m.
gil smith wrote:
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
You mean an early laptop? I had a Zenith Z100 or Z180, or Z
something..... I think. Honestly, I don't know what it was called :-)
I think it was from about 86, and was an 8088. It was a nice little
computer. It wan't all that big. It was truly a laptop, not a luggable.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
11:50 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote:
gil smith wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
> dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
>
> Anyone have any favorites?
How about the Sharp PC-5000? It has an 8x80 line LCD display in a
clamshell portable design. It uses bubble memory carthridges as its main
storage.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/comp/pc5000/
Here's a review in the January 1984 issue of Creative Computing. The
predictions didn't pan out:
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n1/55_The_Sharp_PC5000_a_desk.php
I have one for sale. If interested, e-mail me ;)
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11:58 p.m.
That would be the 170 likely. They come up ocasionally on EPay.
I have it's immediate predecessor, the luggable ZFA 161. Heavier
than hades but a neat machine.
Lawrence
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Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the
early dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
You mean an early laptop? I had a Zenith Z100 or Z180, or Z
something..... I think. Honestly, I don't know what it was called :-) I
think it was from about 86, and was an 8088. It was a nice little
computer. It wan't all that big. It was truly a laptop, not a
luggable.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
2:49 a.m.
I loved the Tandy Model 100 and 200, NEC had a nice laptop early on, the
Toshiba 3100 with its Orange Plasma screen rocked!!!
Curt
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Subject: early pc with lcd screen
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
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11:52 p.m.
And of course the Atari Portfolio. My 2 current faves are a Sharp
PC3000 and a Grid 1520 (a 286) with red plasma display and the
famous Rugged Grid magnesium case. I have a nonworking NEC
Multispeed and a working NEC Prospeed.(too large, too heavy)
Lawrence
I loved the Tandy Model 100 and 200, NEC had a nice
laptop early on, the
Toshiba 3100 with its Orange Plasma screen rocked!!!
Curt
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 3:28 AM
Subject: early pc with lcd screen
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Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the
early dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
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4:55 a.m.
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens.
Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
I like ALL the early stuff and for no good reason I can think of. The Apple
Portable, the early powerbooks and the Duo units (carry around VERY small
with floppy etc in a docking station. The IBM convertible, the LX-40, even
the nasty big P75 (saw one sitting in a shop the other day), the Thinkpads
with butterfly keyboards. All neat.
Heck I am even pretty jazzed at the current generation of portables, ultra
thin, very powerfull with DVD etc. Definately excites my gadget bone.
7:07 a.m.
At 01:28 AM 22/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
Well I own a Panasonic DOS laptop. It's got a NEC V20 CPU, 640K memory and
DOS 3.3 in ROM. I purchased it new in either 1988 or 1989 basically to use
as a terminal to dial in to work. Still got it sitting around here
somewhere in a cupboard. The floppy drive appears to be dead (along with
the battery) but replacing the floppy would make for a nice portable
terminal for the VAXstation I plan to take on holidays this year.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
| "If God had wanted soccer played in the
| air, the sky would be painted green"
1:41 p.m.
Hi,
Huw Davies <Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au> said:
At 01:28 AM 22/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I have a SunRace laptop, also V20, from the same time frame. It still
works but the floppy and serial ports have died so I can't get stuff
in or out. I bought it (new) because with no backlight and running
off nice big D-Cell nicads I could get a full days work out of it -
something I've never been able to do with any other laptop.
Currently using an old IBM Thinkpad 560 (100MHz Pentium) which works
very nicely running Linux...
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
Well I own a Panasonic DOS laptop. It's got a NEC V20 CPU, 640K memory and
DOS 3.3 in ROM. I purchased it new in either 1988 or 1989 basically to use
as a terminal to dial in to work. Still got it sitting around here
somewhere in a cupboard. The floppy drive appears to be dead (along with
the battery) but replacing the floppy would make for a nice portable
terminal for the VAXstation I plan to take on holidays this year. 
9:25 a.m.
gil smith wrote:
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
Howe about the Gateway Handbook? Neat little DOS 5 machine, maxes out a
3MB RAM, external floppy...
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9:49 a.m.
I like the DG one's and early HP's.
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From: "gil smith" <gil(a)vauxelectronics.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:28 AM
Subject: early pc with lcd screen
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
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3:43 p.m.
Keys wrote:
I like the DG one's and early HP's.
I
like the Hewlett-Packard DOS palmtops - the 100LX, 200LX and OmniGo 700LX.
They're not strictly ontopic, though. My 700LX hails from 1996. And I've got
the Nokia 2110 that goes with it (complete with cracked display cover -
grr...). And it's not for sale, before you ask.
Later.
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Phil.
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10:49 a.m.
gil smith wrote:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens.
Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
I remember one from about 1986, called the Tava Flyer. LCD, twin
5 1/4" floppy disks and the really unusual feature, an 80186 CPU.
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John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
1:50 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, gil smith wrote:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens.
Something from the
early dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Well... it's not a clamshell design, but someone recently brought to my
attention a small ruggedized PC named the Husky Hunter which runs on
MS-DOS. There were serveral models made, but the Husky Hunter 16 was
the one pointed out to me:
Specs: http://www.infocon.dk/husky/products/h16spec-uk.htm
Image: http://www.handheldsystems.com/Handhelds/Used_handhelds/h16.jpg
I always thought the Tandy 1400LT looked pretty interesting.
-brian.
2:47 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, gil smith wrote:
This looks a lot like a Sharp OEM (the second picture in particular). Is
this indeed made by Husky?
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens.
Something from the
early dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Well... it's not a clamshell design, but someone recently brought to my
attention a small ruggedized PC named the Husky Hunter which runs on
MS-DOS. There were serveral models made, but the Husky Hunter 16 was
the one pointed out to me:
Specs: http://www.infocon.dk/husky/products/h16spec-uk.htm
Image: http://www.handheldsystems.com/Handhelds/Used_handhelds/h16.jpg I always thought the Tandy 1400LT looked pretty
interesting.
It's not ;)
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11:51 p.m.
It and it's specs looks similiar to the Sharp PC 3xxx but the 3k was
a clamshell design. Except for a larger screen it's design is also
similar to the Sharp PC1500. Some nice machines tho. I want one.
Lawrence
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, gil smith wrote:
This looks a lot like a Sharp OEM (the second picture in particular).
Is this indeed made by Husky?
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens.
Something from the
early dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Well... it's not a clamshell design, but someone recently brought to
my attention a small ruggedized PC named the Husky Hunter which runs
on MS-DOS. There were serveral models made, but the Husky Hunter 16
was the one pointed out to me:
Specs: http://www.infocon.dk/husky/products/h16spec-uk.htm
Image:
http://www.handheldsystems.com/Handhelds/Used_handhelds/h16.jpg I always thought the Tandy 1400LT looked pretty
interesting.
It's not ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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2:49 p.m.
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens.
Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Amstrad PPC 512 or 640,
512 or 640K RAM,
NEC V30 8 Mhz Processor,
Full size AT keyboard,
Herc/CGA LCD screen,
Twin 720K Floppy,
Built In 2400bps modem,
Run off 10 'ordinary' C batteries or Mains.
Actually I think the PPC512 doesn't have the modem or the 2nd disc drive.
Common as muck over here (UK).
Bye,
Deano
3:38 p.m.
I am curious
about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Amstrad PPC 512 or 640,
512 or 640K RAM,
NEC V30 8 Mhz Processor,
Full size AT keyboard,
Herc/CGA LCD screen,
Twin 720K Floppy,
Built In 2400bps modem,
Run off 10 'ordinary' C batteries or Mains. Actually I think the PPC512 doesn't have the modem
or the 2nd disc drive.
The PPC640 does, though. I can confirm that.
Common as muck over here (UK).
Not in
Yorkshire.
Later.
--
Phil.
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
23 Nov
23 Nov
2:10 a.m.
Common as muck
over here (UK).
Not in Yorkshire.
22 Nov
22 Nov
7:15 p.m.
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23 Nov
23 Nov
8:17 a.m.
Speaking of old portables, anyone remember the large Toshiba
almost-laptop with the full 101-key keyboard? I can't remember the name,
but I'd love to get one, as I drooled over one for a while.
Peace... Sridhar
22 Nov
22 Nov
3:27 p.m.
I have a Tandy 1400LT,
768k ram (top 128k is always a ramdisk)
2 720k floppy drives
internal 1200 baud modem
CGA backlit lcd screen
rechargable battery
serial port
NEC V-20 7.67mhz processor
full size keyboard
parallel port
cga vidseo output
external keyboard jack (din 5)
external floppy port (D 37 connector)(not IBM pinout)
It was furnished with a Tandy customized MS-DOS 3.2. The ramdisk was
always the "C:" drive. I still have mine, but the NiCad battery is wasted.
Dean Calver wrote:
I am curious
about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
3:29 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, gil smith wrote:
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
Not sure about it as a favorite, but I have not seen any mention of the
Morrow Pivot (aka Zenith 171) so far.
- don
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3:51 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Don Maslin wrote:
Not sure about it as a favorite, but I have not seen
any mention of the
Morrow Pivot (aka Zenith 171) so far.
It was more of a "portable" (albeit clamshell-ish).
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4:40 p.m.
gil smith wrote:
Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
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I recently sold an HP portable 486, vintage about 1991. This was pretty
big for a portable, and a special purpose machine. I think it could
have booted DOS though i never tried it.
Still have the pics up for it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11175&item=2…
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