1100FD                         V-20 based no-frills notebook
Tandy Offers Inexpensive Laptop
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Tandy moves into the low-end, no-frills laptop computer market
with a 6.5-pound laptop. The 1100FD comes with an NEC V-20
microprocessor, 640K bytes RAM, one 3.5-inch 720K-byte
floppy-disk drive, a 9-inch diagonal 80 by 25 non-backlit LCD
display with 640 by 200 resolution, and a removable, rechargable
NiCad battery with an average of 5 hours of computing between
recharges.
 
The 1100FD comes with MS-DOS 3.3 and Tandy's DeskMate DOS shell
in ROM. DeskMate applications in ROM include Desktop, Text (an
entry-level word processor), and a 90,000-word spelling checker.
Tandy says it'll bundle additional DeskMate utilities, such as
Worksheet, Filer, Telecom, Calendar, Address Book, and PC-Link,
on floppy disks with the 1100FD.
 
The 1100FD's clamshell design measures 12.1 by 2.4 by 9.8 inches,
roughly the same dimensions as Toshiba's T1000. Other features
include a battery-saving standby mode, parallel and serial ports,
one dedicated internal modem slot, and an 84-key keyboard.
Options include an internal 2400-bps modem and a replacement
battery.
 
Price: $999; modem, $199.95; battery, $29.95.
 
Contact: Tandy, 1700 One Tandy Center, Fort Worth, TX 76102,
(817) 390-3300.
 
                              --- Jeff Bertolucci
 
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