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From: lncjb@cc.nu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Machines that never saw the light of day
Message-ID: <5409.27679e39@cc.nu.oz.au>
Date: 13 Dec 90 05:28:57 GMT
References: <61@mixcom.UUCP>
Organization: University of Newcastle
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In article <61@mixcom.UUCP>, cyaa01@mixcom.UUCP (Chris Klausmeier) writes:
> 
> o CBM LCD Laptop
[Remaining stuff zapped]

The same friend mentioned in another recent article (& the same magazine) has
	a bit about the CBM LCD. In apperance, the LCD looks like a forebear
	of both the C128 and PLUS/4, ie: a white toboggon the size of a +4.
	It had a 80x16 LCD screen that folded up from behind a keyboard that
	looks nothing like the conventional VIC/64/16/+4/128 layout. It also
	had those nifty arrow-shaped crsr keys.

The LCD used a 65C02 microprocessior (a Rockwell chip in a CBM device? -- egad!)
	with 32k CMOS RAM, so definitly not a 64/128-compatible. Since this
	was a lap-held, CBM placed 96k of bisness and telecom software in ROM
	(a la +4), or so says the release article. Just the thing for the
	impartial Yuppie. Also included onboard the LCD was a 300 baud modem.

The LCD used a version 3.6 BASIC (Fills in the gap between the V2 on the
	VIC/64 and V4 on the 128(?). Not aware if it used standard 64
	device contectors or those tiny ones of the 16/+4. How the thing was
	powered, I couldn't tell, but if it used a Datasette it would chew
	up the Nicads for sure.

The prototypes where displayed at some Commodore Electronics show (84?), and
	the article writer complained about the 'release' LCD having a flat
	keyboard. :-?

One more extinct machine, I suppose.
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