Damn you, RM! You caused me to waste my entire morning
following your links! Great stuff!

I didn't want to work anyway...

Eric

--- Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >>"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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