Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!lectroid!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@takahe.cs.umass.edu (Eliot &) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: laptop or portable with hard disk Message-ID: Date: 1 Feb 90 15:31:33 GMT Sender: root@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: Moss@cs.umass.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 23 I have been following the discussion for a little while, but have been unable to discern clearly the features of some of the systems under discussion (Tandy, various Toshiba units, Zenith, etc.). What I am looking for is a an MSDOS portable or laptop with a full 80x25 character display (graphics not important; to be used mostly for word processing), with a hard disk, at least 640K bytes of memory available, and a serial port. The software I expect to run will be a word processing package called The FinalWord (since this is not extremely popular, etc., it is important that the machine be able to run generic MSDOS software without modification) and Kermit (to up/download files from another PC), preferably at a high baud rate (at least 9600). A laptop would be great, but a portable would also be reasonable. Since there may be others out there with similar interests, I propose that suggestions be posted to the net rather than sent to me (but if you fell that's inappropriate, I will summarize direct responses at a later date). Thanks for any assistance you can offer in this search! Eliot -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu