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Laptop //c

Okay, as many of you may have guessed from other posts I've made, I am
on a quest to get my own Apple //c laptop.

I've doggedly been looking into either emulating a //c on an eMate, or
failing that, put Apple // guts into an eMate. Why am I being such a
PITA about the eMate? Two reasons - it's built to put up with the abuse
of a six year old, and the battery life is something like 12 hours. As
I have mentioned elsewhere, there *was* an effort to make an emulator
for Newton OS (which the eMate runs), but  apparently it never made it
past the alpha stage, and nothing has been heard about it since 2000.
Then there's the idea of changing the innards, which might seem
impossible considering the tight space in an eMate and the rather
chunky parts of the //c. I'm hoping that *maybe* I can find parts from
an old Tiger Learning Computer that will be small enough to fit inside
the eMate. I've placed ads for a TLC in both the New York and SF Bay
area Craigslists, but I have faint hope of finding one. If anyone knows
of anywhere I can find a TLC cheap, please email me.

Thinking along more practical lines, I managed to find some broken
Powerbook 520 cs cheap on eBay. Hopefully, between them there will be
enough parts to get one of them running. Assuming I can, I should be
able to use Catakig to emulate a //c on it. Two things that bother me -
using the Powerbook's color monitor just seems like overkill to me, and
the damned thing has a battery life of only two hours. Still, it should
work, and if I ever find a GS emulator for Mac OS 7.6.1 I can always
switch it over.

Well, that's my story. Feel free to dispense with any advice or
comments. Thank you for your time and attention to my mad ramblings.
;-)


Ralph Glatt