At 09:50 AM 1/14/98 EST, you wrote:
I own a grid laptop; a compass II 1129 to be exact. I
got if from my brother
who claimed it came from some nasa engineer and the computer played some
major
part in shape shuttle flight/development or whatever.
mine works fine, and
even has some apps in some extra roms. it's not much of a portable machine
though because it still has to run on ac power. gotta love the bouncing balls
screen saver though!
Never saw that screensaver on my Compass 1100. Mfg date on it is 1982, no
internal drives, no extra ROMs either. The 1100 used bubble memory. I still
haven't found a good explanation on what bubble memory is. Anyone know? I
do know that when I got it, there were files in there created back in '85
that were still there, and I didn't see any battery inside to speak of, so
I guess this is a feature of bubble memory? I deleted files and created
some new ones and they saved fine. Trippy.
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