| Article: 10081
From: [email protected] (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Info about German Amiga portable please
Date: 20 Nov 91 13:46:45 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (USENET News System)
Organization: North Carolina State University
[email protected] (Edouard Boily) writes:
> The leaders of my company are considering Amiga for their
>vendor's personal computers. They heard about a possible existence
>os a German portable or laptop Amiga and they are VERY interested.
This is a copy of an article I just posted in .advocacy. Whether it
should be taken seriously or not, we'll find out very soon:
Someone mentioned a portable Amiga coming from Kansas. Here is most of
a press release someone else posted on CompuServe today:
WICHITA, Kan. --11/13/91-- Newer Technology announced the development of
a new, true portable, Amiga computer. Based on the Motorola 68000
processor running at 7.16MHz, the Model 10 is 100% software compatible
and available with the 1.3 or 2.0 Commodore ROMs. A monochrome LCD display
is standard and a color LCD will be available soon. The model 10 will be
officially announced and on display at the next World of Commodore show
in Toronto, Canada, December 6-8, 1991. [Price announced there, also]
A second 24MHz 68030 portable -- the Model 30 -- with an optional 68882 math
co-processor, is currently under development but will not be officially
announced until January 1992.
The completely new design of Model 10 is compact: 2" tall, 11.7" wide and
8.3" deep when closed, and weighs from three to six pounds depending upon
configuration. It features 2MB of internal memory soldered onto the
motherboard with expansion to up to 8MB total. An 86-pin expansion bus is
available. One 3.5" 880K floppy drive is also standard. Battery power is
completely dependent upon configuration and attached peripherals.
Available peripherals from Newer Technology will include an external 40MB
hard disk, internal 20MB hard disk, RAM upgrades to 8MB, battery charger
and a PC hardware upgrade. Projected peripherals include a CD-ROM drive,
sound output interface, SCSI II Dart RAM drive, external tape drive and
an external color display.
Article: 10091
From: [email protected] (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Info about German Amiga portable please
Date: 20 Nov 91 22:01:33 GMT
Organization: BC Systems Corporation
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Edouard Boily) writes:
>
> The leaders of my company are considering Amiga for their
> vendor's personal computers. They heard about a possible existence
> os a German portable or laptop Amiga and they are VERY interested.
> I would appreciate any information you have on such a beast like
> availability, hardware description, person to contact, price, ans so
> on.
>
> - Edouard
> | [email protected] |
I saw a press anouncement on our local BBS the other day from an American
company whose name escapes me (I'm going by memory for this posting).
Apparently the laptop Amiga will be shown at the World of Commodore on December
5-6. The initial model is a stock 7.14MHz Amiga with 2MB RAM (socketed for 8MB
on the motherboard) and a single floppy. It included a monochrome display.
Options included both internal (20MB) and external hard drives. The color
display is in the works, as is a 68030/68882 version.
Price was to be announced at the show.
--
.../Ed Preferrred: [email protected]
Ed Wilts Alternate: [email protected] (604) 389-3430
B.C. Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
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