Non-Intel Laptops - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Aug 2002

...
   I think the Digital
AlphaBook is more than 10 years old too - this being the only "old"
laptop I'd pay real money for.  
 I have one... at least at work... I've been using it recently to
 do some testing.  Linux runs on it just fine...  
 Having just acquired a DECstation 5000 (MIPS) as well as a DEC 3000
 (Alpha), I'd love to know more about the AlphaBook.  Can't find much
 on the web apart from companies who are selling memory upgrades for
 it. 
 I doubt that the alphabook is more than 10 years old. My thinkpad N40 is from 
1994 and surely the alphabook is faster than 50MHz and thus younger? According 
to google it has a 233MHz 21066A and according to my memory it should have 
something like a 166MHz processor, but maybe there were different versions.

 There's also a HP-UX version, the Precisionbook, which is very similar to the 
Alphabook. A bit more collectible is this one, I forgot to bid :(

 http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2042227517&rd=1

 Also look out for the RS/6000 thinkpads and the Silicon Graphics laptops 
(probably only sold to the military or something like that, I've never seen one 
for sale). Sparcbooks are just too common :).

  greetings,
   Michiel

ps. For finding information on Alphabooks use www.archive.org on the tadpole 
and the rdi site.