MICRO SYSTEMS TEAMS UP WITH SANYO TO PRODUCE LAPTOP

Software house Micro Systems Ltd has teamed up with Sanyo Electric Co to produce the smallest laptop computer so far in Japan: the machine, known as The Book measures just 11.7 by 8.3 by 1.8 and weighs only 5 lbs 5 oz: it is described as IBM PS/2-compatible (clearly the Model 30, since it uses an 8MHz 80C86 processor) and can also run software written for the Japanese Toshiba J3100 lap-top, and English software written for IBM XT; it will sell for around $2,000 with MS-DOS and a Japanese dictionay embedded in ROM.

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