9 Jun
1998
9 Jun
'98
5:20 p.m.
I picked up a copy of Mobile Computing and the editorial starts off by
mentioning several portable computers that were significant in the history
of mobile computing. Included in the list was the Model 100 (of course)
and the IBM 700 (I forget the others.)
The question I have is what was significant about the IBM 700? If it's the
I think it is, it had an external fdd, but it certainly wasn't the first
(heck, the M100 had that.)
So, does anyone know what the ed might have been talking about?
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9 Jun
5:28 p.m.
Was this one of the ones from about '92? If it's the one I'm thinking of,
it would be the first with the 'pencil' pointer in the keyboard. For all I
know, the first built in pointer (I'd not seen any prior to this). Of
course I really remember it running AIX and OS/2 at the same time (I hate
AIX, but sure wish they had released that product).
Zane
I picked up a copy of Mobile Computing and the
editorial starts off by
mentioning several portable computers that were significant in the history
of mobile computing. Included in the list was the Model 100 (of course)
and the IBM 700 (I forget the others.)
The question I have is what was significant about the IBM 700? If it's the
I think it is, it had an external fdd, but it certainly wasn't the first
(heck, the M100 had that.)
So, does anyone know what the ed might have been talking about?
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Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
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5:58 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Was this one of the ones from about '92? If
it's the one I'm thinking of,
it would be the first with the 'pencil' pointer in the keyboard. For all I
know, the first built in pointer (I'd not seen any prior to this). Of
course I really remember it running AIX and OS/2 at the same time (I hate
AIX, but sure wish they had released that product).
That must be it. The TP700 was the first with the TrackPoint (eraser
head).
The first DOS laptop with a pointing device was the GRiD 1550SX, and it
had an isopoint (tootsie-roll) similar to the Outbound Mac-clone.
-- Doug
5:42 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Uncle Roger wrote:
The question I have is what was significant about the
IBM 700? If it's the
I think it is, it had an external fdd, but it certainly wasn't the first
(heck, the M100 had that.)
So, does anyone know what the ed might have been talking about?
Which IBM 700? I think the 700T was IBM's first pen-based slate. Wasn't
the 700/700C the first ThinkPad? I guess that was significant to IBM.
-- Doug
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