Convergent Technologies workSlate

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Shawn Rutledge wrote: You're familiar with the TRS-80 Model 100? Imagine something with about the same form-factor, built the same year, but with built-in spreadsheet, microcassette tape drive, speaker phone, and voice annotation! It was also colored black and looked much cooler than the TRS-80 thing. Unfortunately, it was priced at $2K (I've seen somebody list a price of $1195, and I'm really not sure which is correct), so it didn't sell well. CT had originally planned to produce 100,000 of them in the first year. I think they ended up selling about 5000, and auctioning about 7000 of them after they killed the product. Some of the brains behind CT and GRiD later formed a new start-up (and I can't remember the name) which prototyped a very sophisticated modular portable that was never produced. CT also designed machines such as the AT&T 7300 and those cute modular CTOS boxes for Unisys/Burroughs/Bull. -- Doug