Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!geoff@moss.ATT.COM From: geoff@moss.ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Sharp laptop Message-ID: <37333@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 2 Dec 88 21:11:51 GMT Sender: lda@clyde.ATT.COM Reply-To: geoff@clyde.ATT.COM (Geoff Sherwood) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ Lines: 18 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 at the office. The likeliest candidate I had seen was the Toshiba 1000, buf I have just seen an ad for the SHARP PC-4501-3 (the DAMARK ad in today's USA Today). They claim it is MS-DOS compatible (included with the system is MS-DOS 2.11 which I would think means this is a fairly old computer). It weighs 10 lbs, has two 3.5 floppy drives, 7.16 MHz clock, and 640k RAM. DAMARK wants $699 + $10s/h for it (Mfg. bogus Sugg. Ret. $1499). The QUESTION: Does anyone have any experience with this beast, or with DAMARK in general? It seems like a good deal -- especially with the two disk drives and the full 640k memory, but it almost seems too good (especially if it is old enough to be shipping with 2.11; although they do say it is 'factory new'). It actually seems like overkill for him, but at the price why not? thanks a lot, geoff sherwood