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Thanks to all who sent me this link: http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/vac_attache.asp ... I guess the definition of "portable" varies quite a bit! Even the text of this ad refers to it as a "desktop" computer. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of 'Computer Collector Newsletter' Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:58 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: Portable Altair Hi folks, I posted this message tonight to a couple of Altair sites, but might as well ask on the big list too: does anyone know about the existence of a portable Altair, which was designed as the "Altair 2"...? According to Steven Levy's book "Hackers" (p. 257), by mid-1976, Ed Roberts "had been designing an exciting new Altair 2 computer -- a high-powered, compact machine which could fit inside a briefcase" before selling the company to Pertec. I'm more interested in the computer's size / form factor than its technical abilities, since I mostly study the history of portable systems. - Evan ----------------------------------------- Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net Also see: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/ Where did PDAs come from? http://www.snarc.net/pda/pda-treatise.htm *** Tell your friends about the (free!) Computer Collector Newsletter - 770 readers and no spam / Publishes every Monday / Write for us! - Mainframes to videogames, hardware and software, we cover it all - W: http://news.computercollector.com E: news at computercollector.com