early pc with lcd screen

From: Stan Barr <stanb_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri Nov 22 13:41:00 2002

Hi,

Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au> said:
> At 01:28 AM 22/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Hi folks:
> >
> >I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
> >dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
> >
> >Anyone have any favorites?
>
> Well I own a Panasonic DOS laptop. It's got a NEC V20 CPU, 640K memory and
> DOS 3.3 in ROM. I purchased it new in either 1988 or 1989 basically to use
> as a terminal to dial in to work. Still got it sitting around here
> somewhere in a cupboard. The floppy drive appears to be dead (along with
> the battery) but replacing the floppy would make for a nice portable
> terminal for the VAXstation I plan to take on holidays this year.

I have a SunRace laptop, also V20, from the same time frame. It still
works but the floppy and serial ports have died so I can't get stuff
in or out. I bought it (new) because with no backlight and running
off nice big D-Cell nicads I could get a full days work out of it -
something I've never been able to do with any other laptop.

Currently using an old IBM Thinkpad 560 (100MHz Pentium) which works
very nicely running Linux...
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb_at_dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Received on Fri Nov 22 2002 - 13:41:00 GMT

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