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From: c8s-an@franny.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The Wallaby Mac-compatible portable
Keywords: not the MacPortable, not the Colby Walk-Mac
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Date: 31 Oct 89 09:52:37 GMT
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In article <2224@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes:
>  In the BYTE Magazine, November issue, p. 49 there is a short notice
>  of a new Mac-compatible Laptop called Wallaby that includes a paper-
>  white 640-by-400 backlit LCD screen, an optional 20-meg hard drive,
>  nonvolatile RAM-disk and other goodies in less than 10 pounds of weight,
>  for less than US$ 3000.-

>    A Wallaby isn't a Mac-clone;  it requires the use of ROMs from a
>  Plus or SE in order to function;  the "lobotomized" main unit is
>  still usable as long as the Wallaby-with-the-ROMS stays connected to it.  

>    Has anybody on the net seen/ used/ bought it yet? 

>------ ianf@nada.kth.se/ @sekth.bitnet/ uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf

The Wallaby laptop looks/sounds really good, except
there are two problems with it:

1. You can't use your Mac when the Wallaby is away,
since the ROMs are inside the Wallaby.

2. There are only 7 in existence, as of earlier this
month.

Due to the last problem, I doubt if anyone on the
net has bought one yet. :)

--- Alex
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