I paid $5.00 for my Data General One. It's a piece of junk. The screen
is IMPOSSIBLE to read, just as Data General boasts about it (go figure
this for something to be proud of) at their web site. It is a large
and heavy laptop and from a collector standpoint, in my opinion, isn't
worth persuing unless you can get it on the cheap $15.00 to $25.00
maximum as a curiosity. An 8086/8088 system by any other name is an
8086/8088 system. $500.00 is a joke. Dream on.
Marty Mintzell
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Subject: Re: FWIW: Data General One Laptop spotted for sale
Author: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu at internet
Date: 3/25/98 1:46 AM
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Greg Troutman wrote:
> > > >We have an OLD Data General One Laptop from 1983!!!!
> >
> > He wants $500 for it. Such a deal :-)
>
> He also said at the end, "No reasonable offer refused." Just curious,
> what would you consider to be a reasonable offer for one of these. Or
> perhaps more to the point, exactly what is one of these? ;)
The DG/One was a fairly non-descript early 8086 laptop. According to DG's
website, it was the "first truly portable" PC and they made 43,000 of
them:
http://www.dg.com/about/html/dg-one.html
I don't know what a reasonable offer would be, but it's apparently more
than the $15 I offered :-)
GRiD's clamshell-style Compass laptop preceded the DG/One by a couple of
years (and the GRiD is *much* cooler, IMHO). Perhaps the DG/One was the
first battery-powered PC-compatible laptop? I can't think of an earlier
one of the top of my head.
-- Doug
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