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Re: PowerBook 100 LCD screen replacement, the sad conclusion

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From: Peter Espen
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:18
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In article <1992Aug18.162134.14701@mcs.drexel.edu> uyyifrah@mcs.drexel.edu (Y Yifrah [y^2]) writes:
>I remember when PC compat "laptops" first came out, GRiD was one of the first
>manufacturers of them, they made them TOUGH (so tough that make them to milspec
>now for the Armed forces) but they cost about 4 time more that way... Having
>.............
>
>Look at it this way, would you rather have a PB 100 with a plasic casse at
>$800, or a Magnesium cased one with all sorts of shock control internals,
>platium connects, the works for proabably triple or 4 times the cost...
>
>-- 
>                                        Yoram Yifrah -- uyyifrah@mcs.drexel.edu
>

	We have a GRiD laptop at work for a job we are doing for a government
facility. It has one of those Magnesium cases and IS designed to withstand
a whole lot of G shock.....BUT it weighs a TON as laptop standards go. I
think it probably even weighs a least twice as much as the original Mac
Portable!!

	Peter Espen

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From: peter@norge.UUCP (Peter Espen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: PowerBook 100 LCD screen replacement, the sad conclusion
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Date: 19 Aug 92 02:18:04 GMT
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