Re: Trying to set up an portable IIc+

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shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) wrote:

(snipped getting a IIc and making it portable)
>But the rub is that it ain't portable. To make it portable you need an LCD
>screen, a battery pack, and hopefully a way to install an internal hard disk.
>LCDs can be had for a price, but Apple's just perches on top of the //c, so
>using it isn't conducive to portability. Battery packs exist, but are even
>more rare than the LCD so big bucks there. Hard disks don't currently exist
>so no dice. On the other hand, early Powerbooks go in the $300s nowadays,
>and you could register IIe, a shareware //e emulator, for $30. You'd then
>have in effect a portable Apple II that can also run Netscape and other
>'90s software.

Forget that Mac if you want to talk about price.  Personally, emulators
just don't cut it for me but if I wanted a fake Apple II portable, I would
pick up an old portable PC.  Many can be had for under $100 and they
could be used to run several IIe emulators.  Set it up, wipe out the
brand name, stick on an Apple symbol and engrave "IIc 2000" and you
got yourself a portable II.  Hell, I even saw an old 286 Toshiba portable
with a slot on the side.  Pack one of those Trackstar 128 boards in
there and you have a hardware solution.  You could even put a ZipChip
in place of the microprocessor on a Trackstar and get 8Mhz operation!