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From: cmi@dartvax.UUCP (Theo Pozzy/R. Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: New IBM portable PC
Message-ID: <1127@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 19:20:23 EST
Article-I.D.: dartvax.1127
Posted: Fri Apr  6 19:20:23 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 12:03:08 EST
Organization: Dartmouth College
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I just saw the IBM portable PC for the first time today.  Impossible?
That's what I said to the dealer.  Supposedly,  IBM is not announcing
it yet,  other than a short clip in the Wall Street Journal,  because
they are not ready for volume production.  I hadn't heard any
anouncements,  and thought it was a hoax,  but the dealer is a
full-fledged IBM dealer,  and the machine has the IBM stickers in
the right places...

It has an amber monitor,  and is not particularly attractive as
far as portables go.  It's also not cheap;  this dealer says
they are retailing at $3400.  Internally,  all I learned was that
it has two slots,  and they might be the "short" slots also found
in the PC/XT.

I would imagine that software-wise,  the portable would be totally
compatible with the PC and XT.

Has anyone else seen this machine?  Any details?

-Theo Pozzy (decvax!dartvax!cmi)