Mitac 1600A Palmtop PC

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The Mitac 1600A Palmtop PC is a DOS-based palmtop computer. It is equivalent to a fast PC-AT, with DOS5 and Microsoft Works in ROM. It comes with 300KB RAM by default and can take two standard PCMCIA cards to expand this. The LCD screen can display a 25x80 text screen or greyscale CGA graphics.

Our 1600A comes with a cable that allows it to connect to a Centronics printer port and a 9-pin serial port.

Manufacturer: Mitac
Date: 1992



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IBM - VSPC FORTRAN - Terminal User's Guide IBM Sep 1978
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Apple II The Applesoft Tutorial Apple 1979
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MS-DOS Version 2 Reference Guide Compaq 1 Jan 1984
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Mitac Microsoft MS-DOS Version 5 User Guide & Reference Mitac 1991
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