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From: callele@sask.UUCP (David Callele)
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Subject: 68K laptop advertised!
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Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 13:35:21 EST
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There has been some talk about 68K laptops floating around on these
groups lately. Noone seems to have heard of the Ampere WS-1. Here is some
information gleaned from the advertisement in May 1985 Byte, P. 150.

The Dream, Knee-top PC with APL Productivity and Voice Networking too!

** picture of a sleek little unit with what looks to be an LCD display,
	could probably win the 'most streamlined computer in the world'
	award when the lid is down! **


You have never seen a personal computer like the WS-1. This beauty introduces
a whole new world of knee-top PC productivity. It combines the unheard of 
capability of APL programming with a host of 32-bit architecture desktop
functions, a rugged keyboard and full-size LCD, plus the person-to-person
convenience of an intelligent telephone - all in a smartly designed, portable
package you can use anywhere!

*Battery operation * 8 Mhz 68000 CPU * Up to 448 kbytes of RAM * 128 kbytes
of ROM * 25 by 80 character LCD * Bit-mapped graphics * Multiple windowing *
Multijob, multitask OS for powerful networking * Coherent DB-WP-CALC-Graphic
software * Intelligent phone function * Microcassette voice/data storage

U.S. Representative : Work Space Computer, Inc.
3848 Carson St. Suite 301 torrance, California 90503
213-540-1553


You now know all I know about this beast. This is a bit commercial but isn't
that what the request was for?

By the way, I believe Hitachi supplies CMOS versions of 68K devices.

David J. Callele
Department of Computaional Science
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada, S7N 0W0