Re: IBM 701C "Butterfly"

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From: E P Brown (epbrown_at_suba.com)
Date: Tue May 28 1996 - 20:32:40 EDT


        I've heard rumors that IBM will no longer make *any* model notebook for
more than 6 months. Anyone else heard this? Is this actually feasible,
given the drop off in price when they stop production?
        EPBrown
fm_at_fm.rhein-main.de (Frieder Monninger) wrote:

|:In article <31A21390.4C03_at_a1.tch.harvard.edu> orourkee_at_a1.tch.harvard.edu writes:
|:>and weight that has little advantage over a traditional notebook like an
|:>IBM 360 or 760. Still, it is nice to be able to throw the base unit
|: ...
|: Long time I used such Notebook (360/30). It filled a whole big room,
|: had 64 kbyte, could compile in PL/I and was about DM 1000 a day
|: (to be paid to IB)
|:
|:I write this comments on a nice 701 which I could afford as
|:there was a closeout sale. So (at least for me ;-) IBM was right
|:to stop production.
|:
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|: _____________/ Frieder Monninger D-35619 Braunfels-Altenkirchen
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