callele@sask.UUCP (David Callele) (04/22/86)
<> There has been some talk about 68K laptops floating around on these groups lately. Noone seems to have heard of the Ampere WS-1. Here is some information gleaned from the advertisement in May 1985 Byte, P. 150. The Dream, Knee-top PC with APL Productivity and Voice Networking too! ** picture of a sleek little unit with what looks to be an LCD display, could probably win the 'most streamlined computer in the world' award when the lid is down! ** You have never seen a personal computer like the WS-1. This beauty introduces a whole new world of knee-top PC productivity. It combines the unheard of capability of APL programming with a host of 32-bit architecture desktop functions, a rugged keyboard and full-size LCD, plus the person-to-person convenience of an intelligent telephone - all in a smartly designed, portable package you can use anywhere! *Battery operation * 8 Mhz 68000 CPU * Up to 448 kbytes of RAM * 128 kbytes of ROM * 25 by 80 character LCD * Bit-mapped graphics * Multiple windowing * Multijob, multitask OS for powerful networking * Coherent DB-WP-CALC-Graphic software * Intelligent phone function * Microcassette voice/data storage U.S. Representative : Work Space Computer, Inc. 3848 Carson St. Suite 301 torrance, California 90503 213-540-1553 You now know all I know about this beast. This is a bit commercial but isn't that what the request was for? By the way, I believe Hitachi supplies CMOS versions of 68K devices. David J. Callele Department of Computaional Science University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada, S7N 0W0