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Got this at auction monday. The first 'laptop'.

99% new in the box...but it didnt work. got the SM online which has the SCM, poked, prodded, discovered no -5v supply. but it was working with no LCD. found a bad cap and a bad diode on the internal power supply, replaced with modern...wrote a Q&D to test it...

There is quite an online following for these from the past...the listserv is still working and some people put a lot of effort into a machine dwarfed in speed, memory and function with the disk drive manager inside the HDD on THIS machine....

but cool none the less. I now have a timex sinclair 1000 with RAM module, a TI 99/4A and this M100.
 
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I've a Wang 360 outfit here. Mostly lots of germanium flip-flops, ring core memory card, and Nixies with microswitches under the keys.
 
I had the olivetti M-10 version of that - it had a hinged LCD display and slightly different case/colors, but essentially the same product.
Like this one (not affiliated - mine went in the landfill decades ago!!)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/OLIVETTI-M...m420107c61f:g:Pn4AAOSwNGRc2zQl&frcectupt=true
The tilting display and superb keyboard made it a note-takers and basic programmer Dream!
Built like a tank, it took all kinds of abuse and never stopped working.
I modified mine with an aluminum tube carrying handle (hinged, and when folded back worked as a stand/prop) that held a bunch of gel-cell batteries inside for 'extended' life! I may still have that battery case laying around in a box somewhere....too cute to toss out...

I used several of the sinclair 1000 boards in a home "PBX" telephone system (with the very first SLIC chips motorola made) that had full DMTF pushbutton controls over lighting and audio via the phones in the house (mostly via the RS AC controller thingies).
Was a fun project....:)

Nice collection of antiques you've got going there!!
:)
 
I've picked up a few calculators, there's a primitive laptrop somewhere I don't recall make.
Also a couple of those early shoebox Casio 4-by calculators, one labled Remington.
 
nedseg said:
I had the olivetti M-10 version of that - it had a hinged LCD display and slightly different case/colors, but essentially the same product.
Like this one (not affiliated - mine went in the landfill decades ago!!)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/OLIVETTI-M...m420107c61f:g:Pn4AAOSwNGRc2zQl&frcectupt=true
The tilting display and superb keyboard made it a note-takers and basic programmer Dream!
:)
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looks like the M200 screen but still using the M100/102 keybaord (the 200 made the arrow keys 'key sized')
 
Yes, there were a number of minor differences....I'd used the RS one at the stores enough to know I didn't like the fixed LCD display at all.
I think I got the Olivetti in the early/mid-80s at closeout prices, even cheaper than the RS 100/102?
There's another one on eb complete with the original box and manuals even.
Sure beat 'typing' (if you want to call it that) on a smartphone!
Olivetti made some neat stuff - I had their wedge shaped electronic typewriter/printer (didn't hold up well, but worked great with the M10), and, I think a very weird 'ink-jet' printer that actually blasted bits of carbon off a stylus onto the paper.
Jeeze I had a bunch of stuff back then....all in a 10x50 trailer!!
Thanks for the memories!! :)
 
Its an advanced machine that the planet can use more of....cannot do ANY social media! (but I hear it can log into compuserve!)
 
Had one in my early, early days of my computer addiction. Never understood why it got the nickname "Trash 80". Learned a lot about technology with this little gem. Took a little time to learn the TRISDOS OS, but once you did it was a breeze, Then I moved on to the machines using the CP/M OS like the Sanyo MBC-1250. Those were the Line Command days before we got to the MS GUI days we are at today.
 
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