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QuickPAD Pro
From the late 1980s to the early 2010s, there were many portable word processors that ran on batteries. Unlike the larger “desktop” variety of word processor (such as the Brother …
Toshiba Libretto U100
The Toshiba Libretto was a line of ultraportable computers manufactured between the mid-1990s and 2010. I previously wrote about the Libretto 70CT, which was released in 1997. However, computers were …
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 …
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