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Oh, man. An Amiga laptop would have been so cool to have back in the day.

by drooopy 2y ago

aa-jv 2y ago
If only SGI had built a laptop, too.
- Findecanor 2y ago
  Some 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 ago
    Are 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 ago
      I 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 ago
        I 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 ago
    Some 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 ago
  Tadpole 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.

Oh, man. An Amiga laptop would have been so cool to have back in the day.

aa-jv 2y ago

If only SGI had built a laptop, too.

Findecanor 2y ago
Some 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 ago
  Are 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      I 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 ago
  Some 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 ago
Tadpole 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.