FWIW: Data General One Laptop spotted for sale

From: David Mather <maths_at_cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: Wed Mar 25 11:34:00 1998

In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980324232833.32316P-100000_at_behemoth.host4u.net>,
yowza_at_yowza.com (Doug Yowza) wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Greg Troutman wrote:

> 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

Well - it wasn't non-descript at the time! It had a full-size (80x25) LCD
display and WAS the first >truly< portable PC compatible - depending what
you meant by truly of course. Compaq and Olivetti (and Zenith?)
had luggable things compared to which the DG1 was extremely
elegant, especially with the rather smart beige/brown DG trim. At the
time it had "buy me" written all over it.


David
Received on Wed Mar 25 1998 - 11:34:00 GMT

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