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From: 6600spam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Tom Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: SONY UNIX laptop
Keywords: sony unix laptop
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Date: 4 Apr 91 09:08:05 GMT
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In article <18525@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:

>The April UNIX World has an advertisement for the SONY NEWS 3250
>laptop, which they say runs UNIX, X windows etc., comes with 8-32MB
>RAM and either a 240 or a 406MB hard drive, 1120x780 display, and
>ethernet, SCSI, serial and parallel ports. It sounds just wonderful,
>though the fact that they don't mention the price suggests it isn't
>cheap. Has anyone seen one of these?

>Bill

-- I haven't SEEN one, but there's a summary of the machine in the March
issue of BYTE.  It ain't no stinkin' laptop, though: 18 pounds, no battery
(ac current only), and it sells for 10K base.  ($11,900 with the 406M
drive!)...

They refer to it as a "portable workstation".  Plugs right in to the
ethernet, and has plenty o' power.  However, the price and weight
put it in the same category as the Mac Portable.. (Sorry, low blow!)

--TMaynard 6600spam@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
  Bio geek at large...