>Wow - Megan, got any more details on that "laptop" ? I dont
>see it listed on your web page..
I haven't taken pictures of it yet...
I'd like to try to get RT on it. The caption with the picture
is a little incorrect... RT-11 is not a BASIC-like program...
and I suspect it didn't make it as a product because of a couple
of things... need for AC power, limited display (4 lines x 40 chars),
a single diskette...
As for the diskette being proprietary, I talked with someone at
VCF-east and they said that they though that *really* early
3.5" diskettes were different from what we are used to now...
he thought he might have a drive and some media... (if you
are reading this, whoever, please contact me).
If I can get an old drive to attach to a regular -11, I could
try to load up RT on it and then try to boot the machine.
As for the machine, it has a 4x40 LCD display, 3.5" diskette,
2 serial lines, some sort of port on the back for something
(maybe another diskette?) and has a T-11 chip. The 'terminal'
part of it looks sorta like a VT100 (with a SETUP A like screen)
and it has rom code at 173000... uODT recognizes the B command
as boot from the floppy.
The machine is proto #6... I've not seen any others in all the
years since...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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