Classic "Laptops"

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Nov 8 22:33:14 1997

<I've recently heard of someone who told me about an 8080 laptop from
<someone who has been into computers longer than I have. He said that
<there was a laptop... in the 1970's, that was smaller than the origional
<Compaq. It was soupossed to only have a little RAM, and it was used by
<journalists, who would connect with a modem an upload the files. Is
<this true? If so, what on earth ever happened to these? (Does this
<sound like something else... H/PC come to mind?

Sounds bogus. The small laptops using 8080 (actually 8085) were the tandy
M-100s and there were also the Epson and NEC but none were before 1979.
I did a quick flip through my Kbaud and Byte for 76-80 and there were no
adverts for anything laptop other than a hand terminal that used a 4bit
part.

I happen to have a Epson geneva (PX8) but that was years later(1984).


Allison
Received on Sat Nov 08 1997 - 22:33:14 GMT