Okay, interesting article, but what kind of crazy person lists the best/worst of anything in descending order. You have to read the article backwards to get the proper effect.
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Sean K - May 26, 2006 4:37:51 pm PDT #8180 of 10003
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DCJensen - May 26, 2006 6:03:58 pm PDT #8181 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Well, it was a big disappointment for those who were expecting something like the PC laptops out there.
Except when it came out there was nothing like the PC laptops out there.
1988 Compaq "Laptop": [link]
1989 also bought the NEC Ultralite, which was wonderfully light, but it was DOS and had a max of 2MB of flash rom and no HD: [link]
Also the same year: The Zenith Minisport: [link] Hardly a competitor.
And the closest is the Compaq LTE, in 1990, IIRC: [link] for the laptop form factor we now know.
![[link]](http://www.silicium.org/images/catalog/ibm/compaq/compaq_lte.jpg){kind=link}
It really wasn't much longer before the form factors finally changed.
DXMachina - May 27, 2006 12:38:40 am PDT #8182 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
1998 Compaq "Laptop"
Psst, Daniel, 1990, not 98.
DCJensen - May 27, 2006 3:19:42 am PDT #8183 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
that's called a booboo. (Actually the model was introduced in 1988, BTW)
DXMachina - May 27, 2006 3:30:49 am PDT #8184 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I was just going by what it said in the museum entry.
DCJensen - May 27, 2006 3:50:07 am PDT #8185 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I still made a boo boo. It was not my intent to imply nor state that the date was 1998. The mentioning it was 1988 was just a parenthetical aside, I'm sorry if it seemed like an attack. It was intended as an explanation of my typo.
ETA: Sigh.
vw bug - May 27, 2006 3:50:43 am PDT #8186 of 10003
Mostly lurking...
Psst. Daniel, you did it again.
DXMachina - May 27, 2006 3:57:34 am PDT #8187 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
No, I didn't feel like you were attacking me. Sorry if I implied that. I just saw 1998, and thought "that can't be right." When I looked at the linked page, it said 1990, which made more sense to me.
DCJensen - May 27, 2006 5:39:43 pm PDT #8188 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Psst. Daniel, you did it again.
I blame glucose.
vw bug - May 28, 2006 4:19:05 am PDT #8189 of 10003
Mostly lurking...
Does anyone know if it's possible to check a login record in gmail? Several new e-mails of mine were "read" yesterday while I was napping, and I'm a little worried that my account has been hijacked.