Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!kg19+ From: kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Z88 from Cambridge North America Message-ID:Date: 29 Sep 89 14:17:02 GMT References: <1709@naucse.UUCP> <1897@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <1776@draken.nada.kth.se>, <22598@cup.portal.com> Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: <22598@cup.portal.com> 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