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Compact computer: Lewis Bercovitch, head of Compaq Canada, displays new portable computer, the Portable 111, which is reduced in size and weight, but retains full features.
Compact computer: Lewis Bercovitch, head of Compaq Canada, displays new portable computer, the Portable 111, which is reduced in size and weight, but retains full features.

Compact computer: Lewis Bercovitch, head of Compaq Canada, displays new portable computer, the Portable 111, which is reduced in size and weight, but retains full features.

Date2/17/1987
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Henry Capri, a Maitre D' at the Royal York was born in Italy and retains a love of the food of his native land. On Sundays he makes a special meal for this family. The sauce for crepes suzette he makes at hotel is famous around the world. Here he demonstrates the ease with which he makes it.
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Suitcase-sized computer, world's first portable computer
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Figuring things out, 6-year-old Nelson Scott uses a portable computer terminal his father, school trustee Graham Scott, who is a computer applications(...)
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Peter Hermant: Paja chief says his firm retains related businesses.
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Big deal, Brian Benninger, president of The Drawing Centre, displays Canadian computer aided drafting system his firm will distribute under a $2.8-million deal with Ottawa-based developer, Omnitech. System is said to triple drafting output.
12/8/1980
Help for home: Brian Longhurst, president of Candian Computerized Living, sits with a control panel-the brain of the Tomorrow house intelligent home system - and a computer monitor that displays information in the system, such as how much power a home is using
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Portable computer: One handy piece of hardware in the arsenal of the electronic revolution is this briefcase, carried by Joe Brown, central regional manager of Norand Corp
Portable computer: One handy piece of hardware in the arsenal of the electronic revolution is this briefcase, carried by Joe Brown, central regional manager of Norand Corp
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Portable computer
Portable computer
5/30/1980
Compact communicators: Resembling a pair of oversized binoculars, the laser link-up equipment is small and highly portable
Compact communicators: Resembling a pair of oversized binoculars, the laser link-up equipment is small and highly portable
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Portables fill playground: From the roof of St. Roch Separate School on Duncanwoods Dr. in North York, Metro Separate School Board Chairman Bruno Suppa can see pupils play among 20 portable classrooms that occupy most of the playground. Yet a few streets away, Whitfield Public School is more than half empty. The province is trying to make the public and separate systems co-operate in using available space.
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Tiny telephone: Motorola's Ron Bills tries out the 9800XL portable phone, which the company claims is the smallest and lightest on the market.
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