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I got one of these at a jumble sale in the 1990s: https://vintagecomputer.com/panasonic-executive-partner.html https://vintagecomputer.com/panasonic-executive-p
by hakfoo 6y ago
I got one of these at a jumble sale in the 1990s:
https://vintagecomputer.com/panasonic-executive-partner.html https://vintagecomputer.com/panasonic-executive-partner.html
There's so much insane ambition here-- the best of wacky innovative Peak Japan.
Let's build a clamshell laptop. But instead of a battery, let's include a printer! Instead of the cutdown 8088, use a full 8086! And make it about 50% the size of a normal laptop in every dimension, so you can have normal 5.25" drives! And an ISA slot! And since the plasma screen doesn't render colour well, let's set up a character ROM with bold and italics to provide the same differentiation!
- tartoran 6y agoYes, it looks very quirky but it still retains it's mysterious air. I remember seeing a photo that I didn't understood until I read the caption. The photo was from the 70s Japan and there were several women, factory workers, in an line orderly rubbing their eyes. The caption was something like "workers take a break to rest their eyes" and then I notice that at each end of each assembly line there was a person (woman) soldering very small circuits with the help of microscopes. That was very heroic Japanese, a lot of those early computers had a lot of manual work applied to them and a lot of minutia work was done by very dexterous women.