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From: kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Z88 from Cambridge North America
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Date: 29 Sep 89 14:17:02 GMT
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Tim W Smith@cup.portal.c writes:

>You can get a Toshiba T1000 for about the same price as a Z88, and you
then
>get a real size screen ( i.e., 24x80 characters ).

>For another $200 or so, you can get a 768k RAM disk for the T1000.
>Turbo C can be convinced to fit on this RAM disk if you must program
>the thing.

>For a while there was a special promo in which you got Microsoft Works
>for free if you bought the RAM disk at the same time as you bought the
> >T1000.  Without the RAM disk, the deal was something like $50 for Works.

All true, but the T1000 isn't the size of a Byte magazine.  I think
that's the real point
of the Z88.

- Kurt