At 04:47 PM 5/15/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 15 May 1997, Doug Spence wrote:
>
>Didn't it require a good deal of power compared to LCD? I'm really just
>guessing, but I'll bet that as LCD technology advanced, GPDs lost favor,
>especially once color LCDs of reasonable size dropped in price and increased
>in size. Both of the machines above I believe could run on batteries
>for some period of time, but both were also pretty heavy compared to today's
>laptops.
Having worked on the Compaq III series which had the plasma displays, I can
vouch for the power requirements. Lighting the thing up took a couple of
mills at 170V, plus the special circuitry that Compaq had to generate
variable (!) intensitys on the display.
Somewhat tempermental at times, and not at all practical fot battery
operation.
-jim
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Received on Fri May 16 1997 - 00:23:09 BST