Having recently acquired a fairly recent netbook, I often get a sense of deja-vu, like I've owned a dozen of these machines before. Then it hit me.
The Oliveti Quaderno. An A5 sized sub notebook with a 20mb hardisk and a 7 inch black and white screen. Small, light, around 2 pounds, ultra thin screen lid and very gorgeous. It had buttons on the lid to record memos and could run basic dos apps.
It even ran on AA batteries and given todays high capacity nickel metal hydride batteries, it could run for a good few hours.
However, the screen wasn't backlit and it was a bit too dark and by today's standard, that's not acceptable.
Still, it was gorgeous back then.
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