Comments on: COMPUTERS THAT ARE REALLY PORTABLE

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:33:41 +0000

Seba, the Lectric Shave works exactly as advertised; it’s great stuff.

I don’t work for the company – just a long-time customer.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:24:41 +0000

The problem with a Sturgeon’s Law filter is that it would affect both input and output.

By: katey

katey — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:53:44 +0000

Seba, it still exists! Can’t vouch for if it works, though.

By: Torgo

Torgo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:08:22 +0000

Everyone should go here:
http://oldcomputers.net/index.html

By: Seba

Seba — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:16:10 +0000

Does anyone else stop to read the Lectric Shave product?.Amazing.Wonder why is not on sale anymore.Great invention.And the modem and tiny computer stuff also is good.

By: beagledad

beagledad — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:33:46 +0000

What’s that round thing on the front of the phone?

By: michael Jordan

michael Jordan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:51:59 +0000

Following the PC-1 was the PC-2 which came with 8K in workspace and 8K in BASIC ROM with a cartridge memory upgrade of 16 K or 64 K.

I bought the Radio Shack PC-2 (Sharp 1500) when it came out and it was the best and most useful computer I have ever owned. The printer which was offered with it was a four color plotter– black, green, red, and blue ballpoint tips with 9 sizes of type and graphic software included which plotted functions. I drove a cab at the time and used to print my receipts for customers with it while teaching myself to program in BASIC. The BASIC dialect was very flexible and better than what Microsoft offered at he time on their PC’s with DATA statements and computed GOTO statements. I lost it though when it was stolen from my cab. The dot matrix LCD on the detachable main unit was really cool with a thick piece of hardened beveled glass over the LCD panel. It was way cooler than a Blackberry or an Iphone is today and much easier to type on. The computer and printer together cost $450 and was well worth it.

By: KentD

KentD — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:11:30 +0000

The price shown for the Quasar/Panasonic pocket computer, $525, is equivalent to over $1100 today.
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

By: scud

scud — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:54:26 +0000

So are these more of early palmtops or early netbooks? I guess the 1st was a palm and the 2nd a netbook, but they don’t look like neither, I must say – more like the nuclear bomb controlling suitcases.

By: Casandro

Casandro — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:10:13 +0000

Well the main problem was the advent of bad software and far to fast computers. Back then it was easy to build a computer which ran for hundreds of hours as you could just put it to sleep when you didn’t need it, or clock it with a fairly low clock rate. Today however a computer with less than a hundred megahertz of clock-rate is considered to be unusable. As in CMOS the power consumption is proportional to the clock-rate those computers need a lot of power.

By: NefariousWheel

NefariousWheel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:34:26 +0000

The sum total knowledge of the human race at your fingertips — how beautiful is that?

Now, if I could just get this Sturgeon’s Law filter to work…