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From: erc@radon.berkeley.edu (Eric Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: NEC UltraLite
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Date: 7 Mar 91 00:10:30 GMT
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I just got the "Early Spring 1991" copy of the DAK Industries catalog
and noticed that they were selling NEC UltraLites with 640k RAM and 1M
RAM disks for $699 (with the 2M RAM disk version going for $899).  The
catalog lists the original retail price for these units at $2,999 and
$3,699 respectively.  Also included (supposedly for free) is MS Works
2.0.

Any opinions on these UltraLites? With the built-in 2400 baud modem,
V30 processor, and MS-DOS 3.3, it seems like it would make a nice
portable word processor/terminal/editing machine (i.e., loading up
Freemacs onto the RAM disk and ...).

And what's the display quality like?  I use a Toshiba T5100 as my main
machine and have been quite spoiled by the clarity of a gas plasma
display ...

-eric
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