3 Feb
1999
3 Feb
'99
9:49 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Uncle Roger wrote:
Tandy may have *made* the m100; Kyocera *designed* it.
I'm pretty sure Kyocera *made* it too. The FCC ID (if they had them back
then) is a dead give away.
I think Tandy redesigned it (tweaked it) into the 102;
Oh, Bill Gates takes credit for the redesign in the Smithsonian interview
I posted an URL for recently. He says the 100 made too much noise in
meetings, so they redesigned it with a quieter keyboard.
Of course, the Covergent Technologies workSlate (1983) never had that
problem, and had several innovative features not possessed by the Kyocera
clones. (But it cost more, and you couldn't find it at Rat Shack.)
-- Doug