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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Nay vote for Toshiba T1000
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Date: 3 Feb 90 19:11:48 GMT
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In article <93864@linus.UUCP> blk@mbunix.mitre.org (Kahn) writes:
>I don't understand why this newsgroup is so infatuated with the T1000.
>Seems to me that the new Panasonic offers more for the same money,
>and the Tandy 1100FD offers a bunch more for a under $1000.
>Have people seen these two machines and rejected them in favor of 
>Toshiba, or are they just little known?

For one thing, the Toshiba 1000 was the first of its class, and so has been
around longer.  It also has proven itself to be highly reliable.  It is 
well-thought-out and a pleasure to use.

I am not familiar with the Panasonic, but have seen the Tandy at my local
Radio Shack.  The Tandy is nice, but given the fact that you can't buy
it at mail-order discounts like you can the Toshiba, it loses its edge,
IMO.  Also, the T1000 with the 768k memory module offers a feature that
none of the others have, namely a 620k non-volatile ram disk in addition
to a full 640 k of conventional ram.  And that ram disk can alternatively
be set up as expanded memory.


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John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
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