Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!uunet!littlei!omepd!davidl From: davidl@intelob.intel.com (David Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cambridge Z88 'MacLite' Portable Message-ID: Date: 27 Apr 89 16:02:05 GMT References: <8055@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@omepd.UUCP Organization: BiiN Information Systems, Hillsboro, Oregon Lines: 27 In-reply-to: FTWILSON@pucc.Princeton.EDU's message of 24 Apr 89 23:48:54 GMT Bob Sheckley, the SF author, lives near me. He uses a Mac. He says he tried the MacLite and hated it, because the display was too small and didn't tilt. I use a NEC PC-8500 as the "portable terminal" for my Mac. It is a folding clamshell-type unit, about the size of a three-ring binder when closed. Open, it has a full-size keyboard and a nice readable (but not backlit) 24 x 80 character screen. It has CP/M, WordStar, CalcStar, Personal Filer, and a terminal emulator in ROM. No disk drives; stores files in 32K of battery-backed RAM. "What, no disk drives!" you say? But no disk drives means that it weighs only 9 (nine) pounds and runs for months on C-size flashlight batteries. It should cost less than $1000 these days. If, like me, you don't mind using WordStar, this makes an excellent "notebook computer." I write up notes on the PC-8500 and then dump them to the Mac through the serial port at 19200 baud (XMODEM protocol) for editing, formatting, and printing. I'm the secretary of the Portland Science Fiction Society and the Portland Westercon (1990) and it makes my life MUCH easier. David D. Levine BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNN NNNN TM Senior Technical Writer BBBB BBBB iiii iiii NNNN NNNN BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNNNNNNNN UUCP: ...[!uunet]!tektronix!biin!davidl BBBB BBBB IIII IIII NNNN NNNN MX-Internet: BBBBBBBBB IIII IIII NNNN NNN ARPA: <@iwarp.intel.com:davidl@intelob.intel.com>