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comments:
- author: Simon Templar (Finland)
date: Monday 19th April 2021
text: 'To Harie Elkiess: I''''ve sold one for 15€ without a power supply. Still have another to sell, hope to get a bit more.'
- author: Harie Elkiess (Uk)
date: Tuesday 19th January 2021
text: Just wondering what they are worth now as I have one in great working condition
- author: Tony Logan (USA)
date: Friday 29th May 2020
text: Hello, I would like to thank you for sharing this useful material. I appreciate reading it. What is more, the material provided here will be useful for a lot of people
- author: Stewart (New Zealand)
date: Tuesday 21st January 2020
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This was our first family computer when I was at high school. Mum and dad got it second hand when the local polytechnic sold off their fleet (probably because hard drives were just coming in as an essential...)\
Many assignments were done using First Choice. Many hours were spent playing Bill and Ted''s Excellent Adventure, and Lemmings. (All in glorious blue monochrome.)\
in the end it got trashed by a virus and I could never get another boot diskette to work...
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- author: NY Charlie (United States)
date: Monday 7th May 2018
text: I just bought one of these at an estate sale in Albany NY. It was part of the estate of a former editor of the Washington Post. Boots right up to MSDOS 2.11. It came with a disk that launches Wordperfect.
- author: Ketan Jawale (Mumbai)
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- author: Joe C Buckner (USA)
date: Friday 6th January 2017
text: Have one of these for sale email me if interested pyajoe@earthlink.net
- author: Kelvin Walter (Boston,United States)
date: Tuesday 6th September 2016
text: Time really flies, some years ago, floppy disks were all over. I am personally a computer lover but good things keep disappearing. Anyway they sparkle good memories.
- author: Ronald Harper (USA)
date: Tuesday 10th November 2009
text: I bought about 15 of these in the late ''80s and wrote Turbo Pascal programs for our field salesmen to use. First, the price was about $1000-$1200, depending on the amount of memory and whether 1 or 2 drives. The "tiny" screen was about 5" high by 10" wide, which was HUGE for 1987. Plus, it was backlit, which made it very bright and readable. The screen was bright white with blue text and graphics. (No color) The closest (decent) competitor to the Spark was the Toshiba T-1000. A very well-made laptop, but its screen was only about 3-1/2" x 7" and much less readable.
- author: Keith (Philadelphia PA)
date: Thursday 25th October 2007
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Wow this brings back memories. I had one of these while I was in grammar school. (mid 90s)\
I had a small box of floppies I would carry with it, as it had 2 low density 3 1/2 floppies built into it (no hard drive). I would keep a boot disk with a DOS menu system in drive A, and insert the appropriate floppy for the program before I selected it off the menu, into drive B. I remember spending hours on dial-up AOL searching for free DOS software for this laptop, and giving a presentation on it for the science fair (external CGA monitor. presentation written in Q-BASIC) Great times. Wish I still had it, but it broke while in high school.
- author: Michael Reilly (Ft. Walton Beach, FL)
date: Friday 21st April 2006
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Does anyone know how long it takes the battery to charge?
Or, more importantly, the amperage required on the transformer?
Also, mine says Fivestar Express on the top, and Datavue Spark on the bottom on the label. Remanufactured?
- author: Michael Buchan (Perth, Australia)
date: Sunday 29th June 2003
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Hello Ken
You could do this, but It may be expensive. You can probably only run A Maximum of windows 3.0 On it and Wordpad.
Glad To Help!
Michael
- author: Ken Lopossa (Olympia )
date: Thursday 12th June 2003
text: I am interested in getting the Old Spark going and I see it has an exxternal floppy option could this be a hard drive instead? could it handle windows? word, or wpad? Where could one get a manual?
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