[geeks] First color laptop?

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Mon Jun 17 14:15:56 CDT 2002


on 6/17/02 3:12 PM, Joshua D Boyd at jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:09:55PM -0400, Ethan wrote:
>>>> http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php uses one to run it's webserver.
>>> 
>>> I still have one... ;-)
>> 
>> 
>> Not only am I still trying to figure out who released the first color LCD
>> laptop, I'm hurt to figure out that I can't turn my TRS-80 model 100 into
>> a webserver. That has to be fake, because there is no infos about the
>> terminal server setup to pass the http requests to the TRS-80 via serial.
>> There is no way you could put an IP stack on it.
> 
> Sure there is. 
> 
> Step 1: hack a 68k into the place of 8085.
> Step 2: Add 4 meg simm.
> Step 3: ?
> Step 4: Profit!

If anyone is interested I have a pristine Tandy 100 or 101 (can't remember
offhand) for sale, includes plastic carry case, faux leather cover, acoustic
modem and power brick.

$100

Mike N



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