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A local kid from the BBSes found this at a yard sale. He figured I would
want it, and traded it to me for some spare PC parts. This was the first
low-cost portable laptop computer, as it was fairly simple. They are very
rugged, and originally had neat accessories like acoustic couplers advertised
with them in Radio Shack catalogs. Mine is missing
the battery cover, but
does have 24k. She works 100%, and I used it for a short while to pound
notes into. This was the last model machine that Bill Gates himself actually worked on code for. More info about that HERE. An online club for the Model 100: http://www.club100.org/. I downloaded games and applications from various websites and used to have a mirror on 757.org. Unfortunately I don't have all of the software, I'm sure the other sites still have the same software. I had a Model 100 Disk Video interface that I found at a local surplus store called Grande Junqtion. I sold it on eBay, but still have the pictures. I also have a floppy disk for the unit on loan from a friend named Jim Conrad. I was planning to couple the Model 100 to a Livingston Portmaster or pass thru to it from a FreeBSD host and put it online, so people could telnet to the BBS program I found for it. The issue is the BBS program doesn't support the floppy drive. Like many projects, I never got time to go thru with it -- but that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future! |