Compaq portable questions (not laptop)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Nov 13 14:35:16 1998

At 04:32 PM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

   The P IIIs are well built but not nearly as well built as the original
Compaq portable. It was built like a tank! The displays are great, that's
one reason I like these so well.

   Joe
Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 14:35:16 GMT