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News from Japan
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 15:28:24 +0900
Two items of some interest 1. IBM sells the ThinkPad 220. It is A5 size and weights 1 kilo. Full nice keyboard with mouse ball VGA display, 80 meg hard disk 2mg of memory 386 sl at 16 mh. runs on ac or 8 AA s. Downers -- PCMCIA 1 slot (why oh why in a new machine)!!!!! No announced built in modem and with a PCMCIA 1 no card modem. Price at Akihabara 198000 Yen 2. The Sumitomo Chemical plant that blew with 60% of the world epoxy (sp) material may not be rebuilt. Why -- they claim they made no money on it!! Weather cool and cloudy Dave
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