On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:35:40 -0700, "Capt. JG"
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:22:36 -0600, Vic Smith
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On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:36:20 -0400, hpeer wrote:



My desktop died so I bought a laptop as a replacement. I got a Dell as
I have them at work and have very good luck. They gave me the option of
a 128Gb SOLID STATE hard drive for $350 extra. I opted for that as, in
my experience, the thing that goes first is usually the hard drive.

Also should make the machine light, cooler, faster and less power hungry.

Good move for a boat.
Soon enough they will be the "standard."
I've been waiting at least 30 years for this.
But I'm very patient.

--Vic

Radio Shack had a laptop with a solid state "drive" back in the
1980's. We issued them to reporters so they could write and file
stories from the field. Especially handy for Sports and covereage of
government meetings. The reporter would use an acoustic coupler on a
payphone to send the story to our ATEX mainframe at 300 baud.




I had an HP of about the same vintage that was solid-state... had a bunch of
ROMs you could add for various programs. Something like a 20-hour battery.

These radio shack units came with basic word processor, etc, already
onboard. It was powered by... drum roll please! ... 4 double A
batteries, which would last about a week or two under normal use.
Probably in the neighborhood of 20 hours. If your batteries were going
dead, help was at any drugstore or supermarket.