glenn@harper.UUCP (Glenn Therkelsen) (10/25/90)
For some reason, I cannot post, so I am using Glenn's account(W/ permission).: I have found what is probably the best deal on the best laptop ever! - 12.5 Mhz 286 processor w/ socket for 80287 - 20 Mb hard drive w/ 23 ms access time. - 2Mb zero wait state ram on motherboard ex. to 4Mb. - 2400 baud modem on motherboard. - 6.5 pounds - 10.25" X 11.9" X 1.8" - Backlit 11" diagonal black & white VGA - 640 X 480 - 16 gray shades. - serial, parallel, PS/2 mouse, external FDD, VGA, etc. - runs for 6 hours on ni-cads, 12 hours on 10 C-cells. - Password protect in ROM. - Intel's new flash EPROM - updateable by phone - called Telerom. - Auto resume - stop in the middle of app. and continue. - $1899!!!!! order direct from AIRIS computer corporation: The AIRIS computer corporation 1824 N. Besly Court Chicago, IL 60622 (312)384-5608 I have ordered one of these along with the external 3.5" 1.44Mb floppy drive. The last that I heard from them (Approx. Oct. 21) they said that they were going into production in the middle of November, and based on where I was on the waiting list, I would get mine the first week in December. They also mentioned that it might be sooner, but they were being conservative so that people didn't get disappointed again.(They've postponed production three times already). They have also added an external VGA monitor port that none of the magazines knew about. Also, there is a great review in an old BYTE magazine (I forget the issue, sorry, but there's a picture on the cover). If anyone wants more information, please either call me or post a request (my college has been disconnected from uunet temporarily, we didn't pay our bill). When I receive one, I will post my own personal review. enjoy!! Greg Kulosa Microcomputer support, Harper College, Palatine IL. "Disclaimers? We don't need no stinking disclaimers!!" -- *=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-* B | I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. | | | I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! | Carpe diem. | | To put to rout all that was not life. | | | And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. | Seize the day.| | - Henry David Thoreau | | *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=* | Greg Kulosa | | uunet!harper!kulosa (708)981-0420 | *=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-*
cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) (11/05/90)
This was the reason I just looked up this newsgroup. I am considering buying one and would like to know whether anybody had any experience (pre-production or anything like it) with it. If so, please mail me or post (if there is enough interest). Carl Edman BTW, the Byte was July 1990. But you needn't buy it, as Airis sends you a photocopy of the article and some additional information if you ask them for it. Their number is: 1-312-384-5608. Disclaimer: I am in no way connected to Airis but merely a hopefully statisfied , hopefully customer. Theorectical Physicist,N.:A physicist whose | Send mail existence is postulated, to make the numbers | to balance but who is never actually observed | cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu in the laboratory. | edmanc@uciph0.ps.uci.edu