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From: bobmon@iuvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Flat Displays and Portable Computers
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 18:49:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:49:20 1986
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In article <1191@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> edjames@ic.berkeley.edu (Ed James) writes:
>market using LCD's in the range of 480x128 pixels (80 cols & 16 lines
>w/ a 6x8 font).  How close are we to a real sized display (~1024x1024)?
>
>I'd like to see a portable clipboard-sized computer with
>lots-o-memory. [...]

A recent machine, the Z-181, offers 80x25 characters on a 640x200 pixel LCD
screen (I think that's the standard MS-DOS CGA display resolution).  The machine
is 13.4"x11.6"x3.1" which is clipboard-sized if you believe in deep-dish
clipboards (:-)  It also gives you 640K of memory.  Now, what I want is the
$79.95 sell-em-in-shrinkwrap marketing...