Here's a bit of nostalgia. Anyone remember Digital? How about the AltaVista search engine?

I was browsing through some of my old mail and came across a message from the dim recesses of January 1998. I had just tried the AltaVista translation service to convert a Spanish review of a Digital laptop into English. It did some wonderful things like occasionally translating 'desktop' as 'tablecloth' and I thought the results were quite charming. Here are the first few paragraphs:

Portable, Compact and Powerful. Digitalis HiNote Vp 575

"An equipment of high benefits that competes seriously with those of tablecloth - by Abel Manto'n"

To the good thing one is accustomed immediately. Portable 575 HiNote VP stand for casks is so powerful, that one week whole without igniting the desktop computer can be happened nor remembering for anything him. One is a cacharrito of 3.4 kilos of weight, with 2.16 gigas of hard disk and one piece that combines in the same space the disquetera and the reader of D-ROM. From the last name comes to him there bent to this machine of 765,000 pesetas in its standard configuration. The computer that we have proven bond something more, because it included an extension of memory, happening of the 16 megas of the basic equipment to 32. The memory difference, as already it has been written so many times, is fundamental to shoot the yield. Unfortunately, the extensions of memory accustom to being specific for each model and the prices notice it. An equipment to taste.
Paltar to choose a portable one well is necessary to have precaution in verifying how the tastes of user to three basic parameters adapt: the keyboard, the screen and the mouse, that with the programs that run is essential. On the keyboard it is necessary to say that a little out of place have some keys, mainly the one to suppress, the one of beginning and the one of aim. Model proven had keyboard English, which always incomoda a little, but more annoying is to have to look for key to erase, which it is where it is without leaf return, and is an infrequent place. By the others, it is written wonderfully. The screen is irreprochable. 12.1 inches, active matrix and a fantastic angle of view. Sure the graphical card, that has much to do, is a PCI of 128 bits (pure lujazo), of most efficient. It allows a resolution of until 1024x768 points, although doing a trick of panning. That is to say, it creates a virtual screen that ' sale' of the visible screen and moves on this one when the leader of the mouse takes towards the ends. Recommendable and the appropriate thing is to use the resolution of 800x600, with HD color, that produces the best visual results, without trap nor cardboard.