You should try picking up a Commodore SX-64! On Mar 17, 2018, at 2:36 PM, Connor S via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: Thank you so much for this perspective. Quite helpful when comparing across computers and systems. Connor S. was looking to understand the 'portability' weight if you were to move a computer / monitor / disk drive / etc. to use one of these. Today we carried (aka lugged) the Macintosh SE, Altair 8800 (clone), iBook & MacBook Air to the school science fair. I would have to say the Macintosh SE with disk drive, keyboard, mouse & power cables isn't as 'portable' as I had hoped. Glad Connor S. found a vintage case for it, but wish the design had included wheels for the long walk down the hallways and across the gym! :) Jen & Connor S.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 9:35 PM, Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
On 03/16/2018 08:54 PM, Connor S via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Thank you to all who have helped with Connor's science fair project comparing 13 micro-computers! We've been learning so much and greatly appreciate the help testing and interpreting data so far. Connor S. has put together some graphs on time to boot, factorial calculations & time to count to 1,000,000. He also made a comparison table based on information we could find on each computer. We've had difficulty locating the weight of some computers on-line.
If anyone can help, we are still looking for the approx. weight of the following computers. (Weight should include computer, disk drives & monitor, if possible)
32 ounces of water roughly weighs 4 lbs (weight of my water bottle).
Not sure of the monitor but should weight the same for the C64, Vic20, 800xl and CoCo. Here's the following (roughly, no scale):
Wide Screen laptop weights 8 to 10 lbs (with power)
- Atari 800 XL
7 lbs with power supply (power supplies varied) 7 lbs with disk drive and power supply (each)
- TRS CoCo 3
4 lbs with power 6 -8 lbs (some drive have heavy power supplies (each)
The drives get a bit complicated. Some 5 1/4 full height drives were heavy. The half height 5 1/4 were lighter. 3 1/2 even lighter. 8" drives are ridiculously heavy. OS9 (NitrOS9 can use all the above). 8" drive were less likely in hobbyist circles so were 3 1/2.
-Tandy model 1024-5 lbs with wall wart, disk drive (yes it had one) and
batteries
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