Re: IBM 701C "Butterfly"

[epbrown@suba.com (E P Brown)]

	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@fm.rhein-main.de (Frieder Monninger) wrote:

|:In article <31A21390.4C03@a1.tch.harvard.edu> orourkee@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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