boutell@toffee.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell) (01/15/90)
Has anyone out there encountered this machine? I'm using one, and it's proven to be pretty much unsinkable, so I thought a plug was in order. Essentially the machine answers the question, "what do most cheap laptop designs really want to be?" Amstrad's answer is "semilaptop-" the machine candidly admits you wouldn't want to look at an unbacklit LCD and run on C batteries all the time, it just has the capability. What impressed me was its ability to come through a Delaware rainstorm intact. (And this state is WET!) Thing is, though, I haven't run into any other users. Anyone else got one or want to trade notes? My pet peeve is the disk- switching bug- it won't recognize a new disk in the A drive until you read for a moment from the B drive, and vice versa. Highly annoying when asked for Command.Com- I usually put the latter in a small C: ramdrive to defeat this problem. "It is sometimes necessary to go a long way out of one's way to come back a short distance correctly." - Edward Albee "The average price of leechee nuts in Guatemala is the price of your soul!" - Theatresports Troupe, West End