mlg@rabbit.UUCP (Mike Gleicher) (07/14/84)
Can anyone provide me with any information on any of the following portable computers : Visual Commuter Morrow Pivot ACT Apricot Executive Any other portable that is briefcased sized or smaller, has an LCD display 16*80 or larger, and comes with a disk drive and a printer port. What I'm curious about is : How portable are they? (Will they run on batteries) How compatible are they? (IBM PC compatible would be nice, but if they come bundled with a wordproccessor) How much do they cost? Is there anyone in Northern NJ who sells them? Thanks, -- Mike Gleicher :-) ATT Bell Laboratories :-) I'll bet you were Murray Hill, NJ :-) expecting a profound (home:(201)379-1712) :-) quote here ! (work: on occasion) :-)
mlsmith@NADC.ARPA (07/16/84)
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litvin@uiucuxc.UUCP (07/18/84)
#R:rabbit:-297200:uiucuxc:34500015:000:2075 uiucuxc!litvin Jul 18 10:37:00 1984 * Here's some information about lap-size / briefcase PC - compatibles. (A Compaq micro (or other "portable") will not fit in your briefcase.) Vendor Product runs accepts micro- 1-2-3 PC-boards processor -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gavilan Gavilan Mobile no no 8088 GRiD Systems Compass 1100 no no 8086 Hewlett-Packard HP-110 included no 80C86 Morrow Inc. Pivot yes no 80186 STM Electronics PC yes yes 80186 Visual Computers Commuter yes yes 8088 8087 Clock Screen Screen Weight Footprint K Socket (Mhz) Size Resolution (lbs) (inches) (min) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- no 5 16 by 80 480 by 128 9 11.2 by 11.2 96 yes 5 25 by 80 320 by 240 10 15 by 11 256 no 5.33 16 by 80 480 by 128 9 13 by 10 96 no 5.33 16 by 80 480 by 128 11 13 by 13 128 no 8 25 by 80 640 by 200 17 20 by 11 256 yes 4.8 16 by 80 640 by 200 16 18 by 15.5 128 K Serial Parallel Floppy Bundled (max) Ports Ports Disks Software Power Price ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 288 1 0 1 (3 & 1/2) yes DC $3995 512 2 1 384K (RAM) no AC $4250 256 1 0 272K (RAM) yes AC,DC $2995 512 1 1 1 yes AC,DC $2495 512 2 1 2 no AC $3449 512 1 1 1 no AC $2490 This chart was taken from the FREE magazine PC-WEEK. John Litvin AISS University of Illinois