Re: About to start building a CNC wood router

I'm not sure what the specs on the 1500HD were, but I happen to have several
Toshiba T1000's laying around here. They're coveted by packet radio
operators and are a minimal form factor and are rugged as hell. they boast
512k of RAM, ...an 80c88 brain single 720k floppy drive, and DOS 2.11 in
ROM.... no HD, no DOS updates.... but like you said, event though the
batteries are long-since dead, there's still plenty of life left in 'em.

http://home.bip.net/baxtrom/t1000/

Scott Holmes

> Now, in all seriousness: One of the most useful "PC's" to run a small
> home-brew CNC lathe or mill happens to be the long-discontinued Tandy

1500HD

> "laptop" ('91-'92?), with wall-wart connected, as ALL the ni-cad packs for
> those have long ago passed away. (Price a NEW replacement, and YOU will

pass

> away!) That is a no-nonsense monochrome MSDOS mouseless little computer

with

> sufficient clock-speed for ANY home-brew CNC purposes; it is compact, NO
> "wasted real-estate" with mouse-pad nor separate keyboard and monitor, as

has

> a "desktop". Trouble is, THEY JUS' AIN'T NO MORE of 'em! I got the last
> four I could find on e-bay, and three of those are NG (but maybe "for
> parts"?)

> So... Any wizards out there know a practical mouseless monochrome laptop
> running MSDOS/GWBASIC which we can find for less than $50 (well, not incl.
> postage!)???

> Discuss? Jan Rowland