Re: Thinkpad 701C

[Bryan Daum <allied@teleport.com>]

At 10:04 PM 8/10/96 EDT, you wrote:
>        

 
>Not just low priority, but no priority, the demand for 10.4" screen machines
>is falling off VERY rapidly, what IBM found early on is that most people
>want larger screens, and although light weight is important, small size
>is not so important (the 560 weighs the same as the 701).


Oh, yes how true.   Sad that the laptop marketing business lost the thread
of smaller
completely however.   Guess it makes this little guy 701a bit of unique
computer history.

>Now what I would like to see is to use the folding keyboard technology on
>larger form machines to give a proper full PC keyboard, that would be
>nice!
>
I'll go with that...nice idea indeed.

Bryan