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
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Reply-To: geoff@clyde.ATT.COM (Geoff Sherwood)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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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