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From: pastor@PRC.Unisys.COM (Jon Pastor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Why so little variety?
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Date: 10 May 91 14:53:14 GMT
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> Check out the Dataworld machine advertised in the current laptop rags.

Um, the Dataworld machine is a Tandon OEM...  

> It ... uses
> standard D-size 4AH nicads that don't cost an arm and a leg.  It's
> the only such machine I know of to use standard batteries instead
> of expensive proprietary schemes.

Um, according to the guy at Dataworld, they wanted it to use standard D-size
nicads, and you can use them if you don't mind real short battery life.  I 
notice that you specified 4AH nicads -- are they really commonly available
and cheap?