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Poqet PC
The Poqet PC is a unique handheld computer that came about at the very end of the 1980s, during the very beginning of the PDA/Organizer Craze. The SHARP Wizard had …
Mitsubishi Amity
Introduction In the late 1990s, Mitsubishi had a fairly unknown line of portable computers called the Amity (stylized as AMiTY). It included machines in several form factors: the Amity CP/VP …
NEC UltraLite
If you needed to take notes in a portable fashion back in 1988 or 1989, you had many choices. The Atari Portfolio was small, lightweight, and ran for dozens of …
IBM ThinkPad 240
I’ve always been a fan of ultraportable laptops, from the venerable ThinkPad 500 to the ever-so-slightly more modern ThinkPad T460s that I currently use. Back in 2013, I got my …
Lexmark Lexbook MB10
Introduction The “subnotebook” category of computers in the early-to-mid 1990s had an interesting range of form factors, specs, and abilities. Some were attempts to capture the handheld market, which at …
Toshiba T3400
Introduction Sometimes, a machine appears to be stuck between two eras. The Canon NoteJet, for example, was a laptop that came with a built-in printer, already a bit of an …
Panasonic Toughbook CF-M34
Panasonic’s “Toughbook” line of computers has been around for nearly three full decades. It started in the mid-1990s with the CF-41 (which wasn’t officially labeled a Toughbook, but shared many …
IBM ThinkPad 235/Hitachi Flora/Chandra
What weighs 2.75 lbs (1.25 kg), has 3 PCMCIA Slots (2 x CardBus, 1 x PC Card), an active-matrix TFT color display, built-in Sound Blaster-compatible sound, an HDD, a plethora …
AMS Sound Pro
The term “multimedia” appeared in the mainstream computer zeitgeist around 1993, during which time the game MYST was released. This game helped drive sales of CD-ROMs and other multimedia peripherals …
IBM ThinkPad 860 (RS/6000)
Introduction Every now and then, you acquire a machine that nobody else has heard of. Sometimes, its rarity is dictated by the niche market it was sold in. Sometimes, a …
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