With a Little Help, Tandy's 102 Laptop Can Battle the Heavyweights From: The Washington Post | Date: August 27, 1990| Author: Brit Hume | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Amid the excitement over the increasingly powerful laptop computers coming to market labeled "notebook" systems, the original notebook computer, the Radio Shack Model 100 (since replaced by the Tandy 102), has all but dropped out of sight. For many, though, it may still be the best buy of all.

The Tandy 102 weighs three pounds, runs as long as 20 hours on four AA batteries, and has built-in software for word processing, telecommunications and keeping an address book and schedule. T...