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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Z machine et al
Message-ID: <671@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 14:19:18 GMT
References: <1029.2772FECD@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <1029.2772FECD@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes:
>I was wondering about two older Commodore machines that I saw/have promo
>literature for but never actually saw the machines.  The first is the
>Commodore 128PC LCD Laptop (did this ever make it to market?)

I saw this, but I saw no "128" in its name, just LCD. The OS was sort
of mixed C64 and Plus/4, not really compatible with any of them.
 
>The second is a little more obtuse:  sometime between the SuperPET era
>and the Amiga (a wide time slice, to be sure) there were rumours of some
>"Z machine" that would multitask and a bunch of other stuff.

This could be the CBM 900, a UNIX box with a Z8000 processor. We showed
it on several faires in early 1985, but then this project died. One
version of it even had a (really >1000) hires monochrome screen WITH
a mouse and window manager!

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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