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From: Keith_Jeffrey_Kushner@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Machines that never saw the light of day
Message-ID: <36521@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 05:23:34 GMT
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CBM LCD Laptop: 32K RAM, built-in ROM software, battery-powered, 16-line
80-column screen. Supposedly 128 compatible, save for the color commands.
No built-in drive, but there was a standard C= (Now _there's_ an oxymoron
for you) serial port, and a battery-powered 3.5" drive planned, but
never released. Or maybe it was supposed to be used with the then-unreleased
1581 drive.

1551 Drive: 1541/4040-format drive designed to work only with the Plus/4.
Plugged into the cartridge port and was parallel rather then serial.
Released only in Europe.

364: Well, let's take it from the top: the (1)64 was the Commodore 64,
the 264 was the Plus/4, and the 364 was an enhanced Plus/4 that was
never released. I believe it had better built-in software, a numeric
keypad, and a voice-synthesizer.

Commodore 128s: the (A)128 (or maybe 128A; I'm not sure how they named
them) was a 128K version of the C64 that was never released, though I've
seen ads for them. It had the VIC/C64 case. The B128 was a buggy 
business system that was sold mostly by closeout merchants. It had an
80-column screen and an IEEE-488 interface. The C128 is the old flat-case
128 that was 64 and CP/M compatible. The D128 (128-D, now) is the one
with the built-in 1571.