keithr@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (U.D.M.) (03/21/90)
I read this is the March 19 issue of EE Times. I thought it was interesting. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Colorado Springs - The first machine that allows a Mac owner to leave his desktop Mac and go mobile has been engineered here by Outbound systems Inc. The Outbound Portable Computer borrows the Mac Toolbox ROMs for its system software, delivering full Mac operation in a notebook computer about half the size - and price - of Apple's own portable. Outbound's host cpu is a CMOS 16MHz 68000 processor, the same found on the $6500 Mac Portable. When docked to its Mac host via a peripherial cable and internal adapter card, the notebook computer provides double speed CPU operation and a second screen. On its own, the 9 pound Outbound operates for more than 3 hours on standard camcorder batteries. A $250 optional ROM package allows the now ROM-less Mac to be accessed remotely as a file server - no screen operation of the Mac is possible without Apple's Toolbox ROMs. The Outbound display betters the Mac Portable's active-matrix LCD screen by using a fluorescent backlit supertwist LCD panel. Outbound is the first commerial user of the Isopoint screen-cusor control system, a keyboard spacebar sized technology from Alps America that allows X-Y screen control without a mouse or trackball. A $2995 Outbound comes with a Mac and IBM capable floppy drive. $1000 more adds a 2 1/2 inch PrairieTek hard drive. Both versions allow standrad DRAM single-in-line memory modules to be used as silicon drives. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Looks like a bit of competition for Stacy and GCR if Stacy ever produces. Keith keithr@icogem3.ICO.TEK.COM
topgun@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Chandra Bajpai) (03/22/90)
In article <4851@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> keithr@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (U.D.M.) writes: >I read this is the March 19 issue of EE Times. I thought it was >interesting. > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Colorado Springs - The first machine that allows a Mac owner to leave >his desktop Mac and go mobile has been engineered here by Outbound >systems Inc. > >The Outbound Portable Computer borrows the Mac Toolbox ROMs for its >system software, delivering full Mac operation in a notebook computer >about half the size - and price - of Apple's own portable. Is Outbound the same as Wallaby? They announced the same thing last fall. Any info? -Chandra topgun@brandeis.cs.edu