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The ThinkPad 800 used the less-capable PPC603 processor, which aside from its slower clock, also has smaller L1 caches than the PPC603e in the 850.

Sorry to dig an almost 3 years old post...

geo wrote:

vwarez wrote: It is worth what you can afford to pay.
For example, I placed $550 bid on this Tadpole ALPHAbook, but it sold for $1,314.79...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200814581492?

hmmm i got the spare cash for this but hmm will see
wow! that ALPHAbook really looks good!! what a lucky bidder got that nice package does it mean all these interesting things only available in US and Europe right? how about Asia? is it possible? i can only imagine Japan maybe..

Since a few weeks, I have been in possession of an Alphabook, with a yellow block at the end of the power cord. The accessories which came with it (bag, floppies, documentation, SCSI terminators) match those from this auction; it might be the very same machine, unless all Alphabook came with them (but given there was a Sun DD50 SCSI-1 terminator among the accessories, this is very unlikely).

This is quite an odd machine. It has the same form factor as a Tadpole SPARCbook but completely different connectors, and a dock giving access to more; but the LCD, the 2x16 information panel, the keyboard, the disk and PCMCIA slots are the same. The two memory slots in the battery compartment are the same, as well. This machine having 128MB, it has two 64MB SIMMs which are actually two 32MB SIMMs glued together...