Compaq portable questions (not laptop)

From: Alex Knight <aknight_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Thu Nov 12 15:32:29 1998

At 05:23 PM 11/12/98, Joe Rigdon wrote:
> There was also a Portable III. I have five of them!! They're a little
>larger than a lunch box and have a 12 MHz 286 CPU and a fold out gas plasma
>screen. They have a place for a MODEM on an ISA card in the bottom of the
>case. And a place for a memory expansion card that held up to six SIMMs.
>The SIMMS that were available were 256K or 1 meg so you could have up to 6
>Megs & 640K of memory. There was an option to add a box on the back that
>contained an 8 bit and a 16 bit ISA slots. Mine have the box with the ISA
>card slots and I use them for portable instrument controllers.

Gotta be one of the most well-build machines I've ever seen. We
have some here in the lab that are 10 years old and they still get
used constantly for data comm applications. Love that plasma display.

Alex
Received on Thu Nov 12 1998 - 15:32:29 GMT