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From: schanck@schooner.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Schanck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Sharp laptop
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Date: 3 Dec 88 20:08:39 GMT
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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

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