6 Oct
1998
6 Oct
'98
2:38 p.m.
At 03:13 AM 10/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
The Model 100 OTOH is more structured around word
processing, I'd say.
This could be another reason for the 100's popularity and the workSlate's
lack of popularity.
The m100 has three useful programs (and two worthless ones) in ROM: BASIC,
Text, and TelCom. The "operating system" consists of 4 or 5 lines of 4
columns of filenames (including the ROM based ones) which you select by
moving a cursor with the arrow keys and hitting return. The other half of
the OpSys was BASIC commands.
What really got the m100 selling, though, IMO was the fact that it could be
had at Radio Shack -- and there are (were) about a gazillion of those. How
many Convergent stores were there? (Or, for that matter, NEC, Olivetti,
and Kyocera, who all sold versions of the Kyocera machine that the m100 was
based on.)
I bought my m100 with a credit card at a Radio Shack.
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