From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Frank Haber"
 wrote:
>I think you're confusing that IBM lappie with the PC Portable, which was a
>lame Compaq clone, but with a nice XP keyboard.  You could juice it with
>better video, etc.  I dimly remember doing that with a combo mono/herc/cga
>card.  Wowie.

Yeah, the Convertible was a laptop. It had the display hinging part way up
the unit instead of at the back, so that you could use it in an economy
class airplane seat. I remember using mine on a trip from NZ to Rochester
back in 1990 or thereabouts. It got 8 to 12 hours of running on the battery
technology of the time. With a modern battery of the same physical size it
would run 20 to 30 hours.

The PC Portable was basically a repackaged XT, with floppy-only and a small
amber screen. Portable as in carryable, but a desktop, not a laptop. I
recently retrieved my original Portable from my late father's effects, it
still runs fine...

Even the PS/2 Model 60 and 80 Servers had handles, though I can't imagine why...

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