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Re: the coolest 90s laptop was a Sparcbook

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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
>
> 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.

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  Sadly those were withdrawn after 2 or 3 years.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.

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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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