Yes the finish is what's so cool about it. And the fact that you can hold
the entire thing in one hand.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: Two great Finds Today
> At the auction I got something called "The
Brick" by Ergo computing
Inc..
> It's a cool looking 386SX-16 as per this
article from a google search:
"The
> Ergo Brick, a 3" x 8" x 11"
totable PC, was billed as the "cure for the
> common computer." With a keyboard and monitor at home, another at work,
it
> gave desktop power in a portable package. Today
you could fit three
> PowerBook G4/500s in almost the same amount of space as the $2,495 16
MHz
386sx-based
Brick.". I got the CPU, power supply, manual, and a carrying
case. The keyboard was missing.
Hey, that's pretty cool. I remember drooling over adds for those around
1990! If you look through issues of "PC Magazine" from about that
timeframe
you should be able to find the adds. Of course I
didn't remember it being
so big...
Didn't they give it a greyish bricklike finish?
Zane