NEC Home Electronics Inc has crashed into the lap-top market in the US with three new machines headlined by the UltraLite, a 4 lbs box using a NEC V30 – 8086 equivalent – clocked at 9.83MHz. The $3,000 box comes with 1Mb or 2Mb of solid state secondary store, built-in modem, full-size keyboard and MS-DOS […]
NEC Home Electronics Inc has crashed into the lap-top market in the US with three new machines headlined by the UltraLite, a 4 lbs box using a NEC V30 – 8086 equivalent – clocked at 9.83MHz. The $3,000 box comes with 1Mb or 2Mb of solid state secondary store, built-in modem, full-size keyboard and MS-DOS and Lap-Link software; no word on the screen. The ProSpeed 386 is a $7,700 80386 machine and uses 3.5 Winchesters from Conner Peripherals. The ProSpeed 286 uses a CMOS 80286 and costs from $5,000. Conner Peripherals Inc, where Compaq Computer is a substantial minority shareholder, is also celebrating the fact that its CP3022 and CP3104 3.5 Winchesters are designed into the versions of the new T1600 80286-based slimline laptop and the T5200 80386 based portable made by Toshiba America Inc.
