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Bob Sheckley, the SF author, lives near me.  He uses a Mac.  He says
he tried the MacLite and hated it, because the display was too small
and didn't tilt.

I use a NEC PC-8500 as the "portable terminal" for my Mac.  It is a
folding clamshell-type unit, about the size of a three-ring binder
when closed.  Open, it has a full-size keyboard and a nice readable
(but not backlit) 24 x 80 character screen.  It has CP/M, WordStar,
CalcStar, Personal Filer, and a terminal emulator in ROM.  No disk
drives; stores files in 32K of battery-backed RAM.  "What, no disk
drives!" you say?  But no disk drives means that it weighs only 9
(nine) pounds and runs for months on C-size flashlight batteries.  It
should cost less than $1000 these days.

If, like me, you don't mind using WordStar, this makes an excellent
"notebook computer."  I write up notes on the PC-8500 and then dump
them to the Mac through the serial port at 19200 baud (XMODEM
protocol) for editing, formatting, and printing.  I'm the secretary of
the Portland Science Fiction Society and the Portland Westercon (1990)
and it makes my life MUCH easier.

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