Re: OT: Atari 800XE made into a notebook

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

"julian814" (julian814@hotmail.com) writes:
> bill.martens@gmail.com wrote:
>> It is a laptop.  I had some pictures of the thing that Ed Eastman took,
>> but I dont think many of them were ever sold so the only thing you
>> might be able to find will be pictures.
> 
> A laptop without a monitor, hard drive or floppy drive. Software was
> stored on chips, and you needed to use a television as a monitor.
> Hardly portable. Ah, well, it was worth a shot.
> 
> 
> Ralph
> 

But I thought the suggestion was that now there are relatively cheap
LCD NTSC monitors/tv sets, that packaging one with an old computer
does make it far more feasible to make your own "portable".

   Michael