Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cbmvax!eric From: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Commodore LCD Keywords: commodore ,LCD , find it soon Message-ID: <3917@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 13:52:57 GMT References: <5866@pyr.gatech.EDU> <3893@cbmvax.UUCP> <4266@killer.UUCP> Reply-To: eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 49 In article <4266@killer.UUCP> ltf@killer.UUCP (Lance Franklin) writes: >In article <3893@cbmvax.UUCP> hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) writes: >>In article <5866@pyr.gatech.EDU> isusevm@pyr.gatech.EDU (Vernard C Martin) writes: >>>A while back when commodore first released the 128, there was talk about >>>a commodore laptop called the LCD. Did this every make it to the market. >>>and so is there any way I can get my hands on one. >>> >>OUCH. I worked on that machine. Lots of us spent long nights sweating it >>out. It was gonna be a pretty hot little laptop. I bet it would have >>whipped the pants off of the TRS-100 line. The software was superiour, >>the hardware was superiour. It was gorgious. It was canned. DAMN !. >> >>So sorry, there are only a very few in existence. Probably only 2 or 3 >>are still working today. They are not for sale. > >Yeah, I heard about that LCD...would have been real nice. Was that work done >down here in Texas? No, the LCD was developed right here in good ol' West Chester, PA. The Texas R&D office had been closed by the time the LCD project had begun. >By the way, any of those Robots left? :-) When the Texas office was closed everything was sent to West Chester. I recall three "robots" in the shipment (I think there was a fourth, but I'm not sure...): 1. A Heathkit Hero 2. An CBM R2D2 lookalike: This had a dome-shaped head which concealed a monitor underneath. Inside the robot was a C-64. Remote control. 3. A rigid-foam model of an ET-clone robot. Has to be seen to be believed. Stands about 4-feet high. It was designed to have a monitor where its face would have been. I was infuriated to find that a misinformed employee "cleaned out" the room in which the robots (and other stuff from Texas) was stored while I was away at CES. Much stuff was simply thrown away indescriminately, including the Heathkit and R2D2 robots. I heard that the R2D2 robot was rescued from the trash and taken home by another employee. The ET 'bot is sitting in my office, even as I type... -- Eric Cotton Commodore-Amiga (215) 431-9100 12200 Wilson Drive {rutgers|ihnp4|allegra}!cbmvax!eric West Chester, PA 19380 "I don't find this stuff amusing anymore."