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."