All this talk of the ultra-small EEE PC reminds me of one of that computer's predecessors. Currently gathering dust in a cupboard somewhere in the Windows Watch office is a Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 - the first truly portable computer.

The Tandy 100 included a huge 8KB of memory (although some 3K of this was used by the operating system) and, crucially, it included an internal modem as standard. It's only a 300bits/sec model (something like 1 million times slower than the average home broadband connection these days), but it did the job back in 1983.

The 100 was the computer of choice for journalists for several years, chiefly because it allowed you to file copy from whenever there was a telephone line, which could in those days mean the difference between a scoop and fish-and-chip paper.

One of these days we're going to have to dig the Tandy 100 out and do a head-to-head with the EEE PC. And I reckon it's going to be a close-run thing.