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Post #2 by equill
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPeripherals
Post DateThu, 7 Feb 2008 - 22:51
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/thinking-of-getting-a-1xx.11813/
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My personal favourite is the 180 (faster than the 160, and with an FPU), although I have never met a 190. My two run 7.6.1 happily (with 12 or 14MB of RAM). The rub is their displays. The TFT displays of the 180s potentially will suffer from the dreaded and incurable tunnel-vision, and the 160's FSTN is, well, a passive display. But for its smaller dimensions, the 180c's colour display might be the best compromise/avoidance tactic.

The keyboards are good, and responsively clicky. Their NiCd batteries are expectably ratty by now, but being NiCd can be recelled without fear of disturbing any smart (hah!) circuitry inside. The backup batteries are remarkably long-lived. My 160 had been unused for about 12 years, by best reckoning, but its backup was up and running again within a couple of main battery cycles.

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