[geeks] First color laptop?

[kamakazi]

I actually want a 100 for my collection, but hunting on the web I found
a place actively selling them.  They are still used for field data
collection by scientists, primarily because the datasets fit, and the
machines don't die of less than a small earthquake/total immersion, and
the immersion will probably be a temporary problem.  They are still
quite price also, especially considering you can buy a heck of a lot
more power for $99 from palm, <experience> but the palm won't always
live through being dropped </experience>

Since I can't justify paying for a machine to just sit around, and I
wouldn't use it other than "cool it works" I still don't have one.

Tim 

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:24:28 -0400
"Michael A. Turner" <mturner at whro.org> wrote:

> 	Don't know about the first color laptop but the Tandy TRS-80
> 	Model
> 100 was the first true notebook/laptop AFAIK. Ran on 4 AA batteries
> and had an OS produced by microsoft.Bill Gates actually wrote some of
> the roms for this model. Funny thing is that those laptops are still
> usefull. http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php uses one to run it's
> webserver.