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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: a good deal?
Message-ID: <4873@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 90 19:04:33 GMT
References: <1368@gara.une.oz.au>
Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
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In article <1368@gara.une.oz.au> pmorriso@gara.une.oz.au (Perry Morrison MATH) writes:
>	Here in Oz, tandy are selling their old model 102 laptops for
>$499 ($US= $400). It is a discount of about %40. I assume they come with
>the "standard" amount of memory (no details in the ad).
>	Is this a good deal or is this machine just too ancient?
>	I'd like something just for text entry and uploading to a larger
>machine. It's lightness and size have always been appealing, especially
>when flying on business

The Tandy 102 has a full featured version of Microsoft BASIC in ROM, a 
simple telcommunications program TELCOM and ADRESS and SCHEDULE modes
for their text editor, TEXT (all of this is in ROM). The cassette interface
is reliable. The keyboard is decent. The screen is fairly legable - more
so IMHO than the Toshiba 1000's. It's light. The batteries las a while.

CON : Built in Modem only 300 baud
      Telcom is rudimentary - no Kermit/XMODEM
      Software not too plentiful

However, for what it does, it performs well.

If you buy a T1000, you'd sort of be able to run windows, Lotus, et.al.
but without a hard drive, an MSDOS pc is limited.

tim takahashi
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