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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (7978)6/29/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Spots  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
>>This approach would cost more than your approach, would not be upgradable but would be a lot easier to lug around and set up

Cost and upgradability is what I'm after; lugging and set up
is what I'm willing to give up. Don't think I like your brainstorm
<GG>.

Seriously, I have considered almost exactly what you suggest,
more or less for the same reaons. What gets me thinking
along other lines is that to make any serious upgrades I
have to chuck the laptop along with its expensive built-in
screen. Disks and memory are pricey and not moveable;
sound is a problem; network/modem options limited and pricey,
etc. Would take some work, though.

Spots



To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (7978)7/3/1999 6:16:00 AM
From: John Mireley  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14778
 
Anybody remember the Osborn Luggable?

Or the Compaq Transportable?

The first PC I worked on was a Compaq lugable.
I was converting BASIC programs runnning on a
DEC PDP-11-03 to C to be run on a PDP-11-70
running UNIX and the PC.