Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, Allison J Parent said:
Most of the early laptops were either 8085 or z80 as
both required less
support chips than the 8080 (8080+8224+8228) as the 8080 chip set required
three voltages and lots of board space. the 8085 or z80 were single 5v
at lower power needs. the 6502 was also popular for the application.
Correctomundo! -- Motorola was actually rather late coming out with CMOS
versions of their CPU's / support chips, so they weren't a drop in the
bucket of the laptop/portable market compared to Commie/MOS / Intel / Zilog.
Tandy improved the 100 with the 102 which has a lager
screen.
FYI: Kyocera actually made the Tandy 100/102/200, the NEC 8201A and the
Olivetti M10... I think there were others, but I cannot remember them right
offhand.
Also, the Tandy 200 actually came out before the Tandy 102 -- twice the
screen size, less _maximum_ contiguous memory but more total banked memory
(standard -- not counting 3rd-party solutions) and had MS MultiPlan on ROM
standard as well -- and the keyboard was even better, the cursor keys were
in a + style and were real, not chicklet keys. (Gee, can you tell I have
one and I love it?)
The Tandy 600 was OEM'd by Zenith, not Kyocera and was (as rumor has it)
the first laptop with a built-in floppy drive (3.5", 80 track, SS/DD 360K).
Zenith marketed a similar machine, (same screen - 80x16 / keyboard) but it
did not have the floppy drive and the programs in ROM were different, IIRC.
Hope this helps,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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