Firsts

From: John Higginbotham <higginbo_at_netpath.net>
Date: Wed Jan 14 04:37:19 1998

At 12:57 AM 1/14/98, you wrote:

>If you're talking commercial laptop, I believe it was the Radio Shack Model
>100. It was one of only two commercial laptops ever certified for Space
>Shuttle travel. Heck, lots of the newer Puntium laptops can't even be used
>on airplanes anymore, for criminies sake! How can you play cribbage across
>the Atlantic if you can't even spark 'er up??? ;-)

That's where it gets a little sticky. GRiD Systems started out only making
their laptops for the government, so it wasn't exactly commercial back
then. I;ve seen plenty of photos of GRiDs being used in the shuttle, as
well as lots of NASA projects and experiments on the internet that use one
GRiD or the other as it's brains. I do know that the Compass 1100 does
predate the m100 by a few years though.

-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
Received on Wed Jan 14 1998 - 04:37:19 GMT