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Interesting to see that Atari did complete their notebook project. As far as I know (note: might be decades of internet tall tales), Commodore was also trying t
by krige 2y ago
Interesting to see that Atari did complete their notebook project. As far as I know (note: might be decades of internet tall tales), Commodore was also trying to get one rolling, but eventually gave up and released merely a small factor breadbox system, the A600, albeit shipped with ready support for internal hard drives, as well as the then barely standardized PCMCIA interface.
- drooopy 2y agoOh, man. An Amiga laptop would have been so cool to have back in the day.
- aa-jv 2y agoIf only SGI had built a laptop, too.
- Findecanor 2y agoSome SGI engineeers did build only a prototype of an O2 laptop — with an ergonomic keyboard. However, there was a company called CRI that remade SGI Indy into thick-boy "laptops" for the military.
- rbanffy 2y agoAre there any pictures of it?! I NEED those. Edit: found https://web.archive.org/web/20080330045629/http://www.jumboprawn.net:80/jesse/projs/laptop.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080330045629/http://www.jumbop... and https://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/ https://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/
- aa-jv 2y agoI often like to daydream of a world where some SGI engineer used a titanium casing to build the "SGI tiBook" instead of Apple, and we ended up in a world where SGI, not Apple, is the trillion-dollar computing company of the 21st Century. Of course, its just a fantasy, but somehow I feel like an SGI tiBook would've won over a lot of nerds, a lot faster, than Apples' variant did ..
- rbanffy 2y agoI think it could be a lot worse than us running NeXT machines. The later top-of-the-line ones are even black. Imagine if it were HP-UX. Maybe the next MacPro will be a black cube.
- wazoox 2y agoSome have built portable setups with an Indy and an Indy presenter. I remember 25 years ago someone showing off with such a custom portable configuration, with an Indy motherboard and PSU, a keyboard and track ball and an Indy presenter crammed inside a small metal suitcase, very chic (but required external power). Fake versions were made for the movies "Twister" and "Congo" but AFAIK these were completely fake (the actual Indy driving the screen was off camera somewhere).
- sillywalk 2y agoTadpole and a few other vendors made "laptop" Unix workstations with SPARCs, PowerPC, plus an Alpha one running OpenVMS. And there were also a few "laptops" with PA-RISC running HP-UX.
- rob74 2y agoThe fact that the Atari ST's standard display was monochrome helped a lot, as they could use a cheap (and power efficient) laptop display and still maintain compatibility with most applications. That wouldn't have worked for the Amiga of course...
- panick21_ 2y agoThe Amiga A600 has nothing to do with a laptop project. It was a pet project on engineer who tried to make a cheap Amiga 500 with a analog gen-lock (it was called Amiga 300), it was supposed to be 50$ cheaper. But it didn't end up cheaper and for some reason management canceled Amiga 500 and Amiga 500+ and sold as Amiga 600. Management canceled Amiga500 that was still selling well and instead selling Amiga 600 that didn't sell well. Amiga management is baffling at times.