>>"The Timex Sinclair 1000 ...

>>The last phrase really amuses me :-) Why do we need a P4 when we 
>>have a Z81 :-)

> Those were the really good times.. *sigh* :~I

I don't remember them as being good times.
I remember them as being good times at the time.

But we were all looking forwards to the Xerox Dynabook.

    http://www.honco.net/os/kay.html

AFAIK it never happened as a product, but sometimes when I use my 
super-super-super-set of what they had in mind I remember their vision 
and how unbelievably advanced it seemed at the time.


***************  LOOK AT THIS ****************
The Vision
"A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages"
Allan Kay. 1972.
33 years ago

        http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf

Looks like a cross between a Sinclair Z88, A Speak & Spell and a 
modern Tablet P.C.
2 years *before* the 8080 & the Altair.
3 years before the Apple I (yes, Gloria, there was an Apple I, but 
only I).

Apple II and Commodore were King.

Apple fans will love this

        http://apple2history.org/history/ah01.html

***********************************************

The history

    http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook

Dropping a dynabook :-)

        http://wsmith.best.vwh.net/dynabook.html

But, somebody built A Dynabook (not quite)

        http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops-pcs/dynabook-ss-sx-notebook-100322.php



                RM 

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