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Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook

From Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook
Date 2019-06-17 19:14 +0100
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References <civ2nf-2jb.ln1@rasp.therandymon.com> <qe6h2t$pvu$1@gioia.aioe.org>

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In message <qe6h2t$pvu$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Steve555 
<Steve555@reallybogus.nodomain.nowhere.invalid> writes
>There was a tadpole sparcbook in the lab I worked at, maybe around 93/94 if
>memory is working.  And there was also a non-sun-micro sparc workstation
>'clone' made by a korean company, but I've forgotton the name of the make.
>And we had a real NeXT cube!
>
>The tadpole was a nice laptop, looked a bit like my old Tosh 3100/386.
>A few years later I had a powerpc thinkpad (IBM, before lenovo)
>which ran AIX.  Sadly those were withdrawn after 2 or 3 years.
>
>Of course around the same time we were starting to put early versions
>of linux onto x86 thinkpads.
>

I worked with a Tadpole in the mid 90's.  A nice bit of kit, but it 
didn't work too well when it got warm, either because you were working 
it hard, or if you were in a warm place.

Adrian
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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

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