Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!schooner.cis.ohio-state.edu!schanck From: schanck@schooner.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Sharp laptop Message-ID: <29041@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 20:08:39 GMT References: <37333@clyde.ATT.COM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 24 In article <37333@clyde.ATT.COM> geoff@clyde.ATT.COM (Geoff Sherwood) writes: >Greetings, > > My father is looking for a laptop computer he can take notes on and >such. It should be IBM compatible because that is the computer he has PLEASE, don't let your Dad limit imself to PCompatible laptops. If he is interested in taking notes and such, look at some more special purpose machines like Radio Shack's lowere end models and the new one from Sinclair. It is fairly easy to transfer stuff via serial port, and you are a lot better off in some cases; as you pointed out, it could be a lot of overkill. Smaller portables are smaller :-), lighter, and use less power. 'Course, if he wants to run OS/2 on the road.... ;-) > geoff sherwood Chris -=- "My brain is NOT a deadlock-free environment!!!!" --- Christopher Schanck, mammal at large. schanck@flounder.cis.ohio-state.edu