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From: thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark R. Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 20 Meg floppies and a laptop NeXT
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Date: 10 May 91 00:32:58 GMT
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In article <28289b4d.6175@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> kwang@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (<The  
Scarecrow>) writes:
> >a portable NeXT!!!
> 
> Well, Sony recently came out with a portable (17.5 lbs) RISC
> workstation.  Comes w/X11R4, Motif, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
> I don't have a spec sheet, but I believe it was also somewhere above
> 20,000.  Crazy what some people will pay for the latest and
> greatest...

The Sony 3250 is perhaps the best portable as a base for a NeXT.  I
am curious, though, about the new IBM PS/2 portable.  IBM liscenced
NeXTstep for RIOS and PS/2. NS 1.0 was a pig on PS/2s. Have not
heard a thing recently.  Is this worth looking into?

I travel a lot and having chucked my office Mac for a NeXT. Now I
would love a portable to go with it.

Mark R. Thomsen