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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Does my dream portable exist?
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Date: 17 Oct 90 00:30:23 GMT
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Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +1 (415) 966-1151
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Brian Holtz asks, in part:

>* Toshiba T1000/T1000SE
>    * With HardRAM, can I boot, run, and shutdown without ever
>      spinning up the floppy drive?

Yes.  I rarely even have a floppy disk in the drive...

>    * Can a SparcStation read/write its floppies?

My colleague in crime, Martin Hall, informs me that he can indeed
transfer data between his T1000 (well, he has a T1200 I think.  I
have a T1000) and his SPARCstation...

I would recommend that you check the "Portable Computing" magazine
issue of about three months ago -- they have a large comparison of
dozens upon dozens of laptops that you might well find interesting.

A final note: I talked with Toshiba at great length a few weeks ago
and they told me all about their new T1000LE that's schedule to hit 
during COMDEX (mid November).  It's going to be, basically, a T1000SE
coupled with a T1000XE; it'll have a 20MB hard disk and a 3.5" floppy 
drive.  Of course, I forgot to ask what the retail would be on the 
product, but I surmise that it'll be circa $1800 and that they'll 
either discontinue or lower the price on their existing models.  Me?  
I'm trading my SE in for an LE as soon as they arrive at the Toshiba
PR office!  :-)

[Note: the T1000SE has a 3.5" floppy drive, and the T1000XE has a
 20MB hard disk.  Until the release of the LE, the 1000 series hasn't 
 a machine that has, built in, both a hard disk and floppy disk, though 
 third parties can 'make it so' for relatively vast amounts of money.]

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor