Firsts

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Mon Jan 12 21:05:16 1998

> I think if you consider the 5100 a portable, then so should you consider the
> PDP-8. The 5100, while more *convenient* to move, perhaps, than, say, an
> Altair, is hardly all that portable. It's listed as 50lbs (a stretch even
> for me) and has no handle. You tell me how that's a portable? (It's much
> like a TRS-80 Model III, only flatter. I think the III is lighter though.)
>
> I vote for the STM Baby.

Even if the implementation may be poor (ie. no handles), I think IBM
really did try to make the thing truely portable. After all, all you
needed to do was lug around _one_ 50 pound box to do useful things, rather
than a processor plus a tube or printer, and perhaps an external power
unit.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Mon Jan 12 1998 - 21:05:16 GMT