> > >I think the Digital
> > >AlphaBook is more than 10 years old too - this being the only "old"
> > >laptop I'd pay real money for.
> >
> > I have one... at least at work... I've been using it recently to
> > do some testing. Linux runs on it just fine...
>
> Having just acquired a DECstation 5000 (MIPS) as well as a DEC 3000
> (Alpha), I'd love to know more about the AlphaBook. Can't find much
> on the web apart from companies who are selling memory upgrades for
> it.
I doubt that the alphabook is more than 10 years old. My thinkpad N40 is from
1994 and surely the alphabook is faster than 50MHz and thus younger? According
to google it has a 233MHz 21066A and according to my memory it should have
something like a 166MHz processor, but maybe there were different versions.
There's also a HP-UX version, the Precisionbook, which is very similar to the
Alphabook. A bit more collectible is this one, I forgot to bid :(
http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2042227517&rd=1
Also look out for the RS/6000 thinkpads and the Silicon Graphics laptops
(probably only sold to the military or something like that, I've never seen one
for sale). Sparcbooks are just too common :).
greetings,
Michiel
ps. For finding information on Alphabooks use www.archive.org on the tadpole
and the rdi site.
Received on Tue Aug 06 2002 - 12:37:00 BST