Firsts - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Jan 1998

At 12:57 AM 1/14/98, you wrote:

...
 If you're talking commercial laptop, I believe it
was the Radio Shack Model
100. It was one of only two commercial laptops ever certified for Space
Shuttle travel. Heck, lots of the newer Puntium laptops can't even be used
on airplanes anymore, for criminies sake! How can you play cribbage across
the Atlantic if you can't even spark 'er up??? ;-) 
That's where it gets a little sticky. GRiD Systems started out only making
their laptops for the government, so it wasn't exactly commercial back
then. I;ve seen plenty of photos of GRiDs being used in the shuttle, as
well as lots of NASA projects and experiments on the internet that use one
GRiD or the other  as it's brains. I do know that the Compass 1100 does
predate the m100 by a few years though.

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