Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!henderso From: henderso@utcsri.UUCP (Mark C. Henderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Laptop/Portable with EGA or Hercules Display? Message-ID: <4388@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 09:23:33 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.4388 Posted: Thu Mar 19 09:23:33 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 06:40:43 EST References: <381@uhccux.UUCP> <104@ndcheg.UUCP> <697@elrond.UUCP> Reply-To: henderso@utcsri.UUCP (Mark C. Henderson) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 34 Keywords: Hercules EGA T-3100 portable Summary: TOSHIBA T-3100 is not EGA compatible In article <697@elrond.UUCP> bam@elrond.UUCP (Bruce A. Mallett) writes: >In article <104@ndcheg.UUCP>, evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman) writes: >> In article <381@uhccux.UUCP>, david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner) writes: >> > Does anyone know of a PC-compatible portable or laptop with internal >> > display that allows EGA compatibility. >> I was lucky enough to play around with the Toshiba 3100 laptop a few >> weeks ago. This is an AT-compatible box with an internal 10MB hard >> disk and gas plasma display that works in EGA mode. >> Evan Bauman > > I did not believe that the 3100 was EGA compatible, since they >advertize a display of 640 X 400 and do not mention EGA mode. Anyone >else have any experience with this machine? > > BAM!! I used a T-3100 for about a month. It does not have an EGA compatible mode. Also no Hercules compatible mode. The system would have been more useful if Toshiba had included compatibility with at least one of these standards. -- Mark Henderson Dept. of Mathematics University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 CANADA CSNet: henderso@csri.toronto.edu ARPA: henderso%csri.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net EAN: henderso@csri.toronto.cdn UUCP: {allegra,cornell,decvax,decwrl,ihnp4,sask,utzoo}!utcsri!henderso {watmath,ubc-vision,calgary,dalcs,garfield,musocs}!utai!utcsri!henderso BITNET: henderso@csri.utoronto