Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.misc > #17704

Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook

Show all headers | View raw

On 2019-03-30, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «old tech is good tech» department:
> Title: SPARCbook 3000ST: the coolest 90s laptop
> Author: Thom Holwerda
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:01:39 -0400
> Link: https://www.osnews.com/story/129713/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop/
>
> A few weeks back I managed to pick up an incredibly rare laptop in immaculate
> condition for $50 on Kijiji: a Tadpole Technologies SPARCbook 3000ST from 1997
> (it also came with two other working Pentium laptops from the 1990s). So, what
> makes this the coolest laptop of the 1990s? I used to long for a Tadpole SPARC
> laptop about 15 years ago, when they came with dual processor models. Amazing
> technology.

I ran Sun SPARC workstations as my home computers for a long time, starting
with a SPARCstation 1+ and finally stopping with a SunBlade 2000.


-- 
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 16th day of Discord in the YOLD 3185
1. What power do you have?  2. Where did you get it?  3. In whose
interests do you exercise it?  4. To whom are you accountable?  5. How
                  can we get rid of you?

Back to comp.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-29 22:06 -0400
  Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-30 13:32 +0000
  Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook Steve555 <Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> - 2019-06-16 22:50 +0000
    Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2019-06-17 19:14 +0100

csiph-web