Brian Denley wrote in message <76k227$977$1@winter.news.rcn.net>...Hence the term "portable" (not laptop). :-)
>Doorstop? I have two Osborne 1s - THEY make much better doorstops! Gotta
>be the heaviest portables ever made - even if they were the first!Though Amstrad did go some way to recreating the spirit of the Osborne 1
with our PPC 512 and PPC640 machines which, I think, were maybe the only
portables ever made with full size 101/2 key keyboards. Perching one on your
lap for more than about five minutes made your legs go to sleep!Cliff, Amstrad
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