17 Feb
1998
17 Feb
'98
3:52 p.m.
At 02:16 AM 2/15/98 -0600, you wrote:
Portables also make good collectibles because they tend
to have the best
technology of their time, are integrated, and don't take a lot of space!
And as the 10-year mark gets further into the dregs of pc-sameness,
portables still offer a wealth of individuality.
Some more recent portables of note:
Atari Portfolio (1989)
Fujistu Poquet (1989)
Gateway Handbook (?)
Dauphin DTR1
Various GRiD's and GRiDPads
NCR Pen computers
Dolch Lunchboxes
Various ruggedized laptops
etc.
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17 Feb
17 Feb
5:17 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Uncle Roger wrote:
And as the 10-year mark gets further into the dregs of
pc-sameness,
portables still offer a wealth of individuality.
Some more recent portables of note:
Atari Portfolio (1989)
Fujistu Poquet (1989)
Gateway Handbook (?)
Dauphin DTR1
Various GRiD's and GRiDPads
NCR Pen computers
Dolch Lunchboxes
Various ruggedized laptops
Don't forget some of the classic pen-based flops like Momenta, EO, and GO
Corp's PenPoint. Even though the flop era happened only a few years ago,
it was an epic period. You can still find some good shrapnel, but it's
getting harder to find.
I just stumbled on an interesting find (if you're a bit of a voyeur): the
GO Corp Alumni web-based mailing list archive from 1993 (before they
completely flamed out):
http://www.apocalypse.org/~lang/go-alumni/archive/
-- Doug
7:02 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Uncle Roger wrote:
And as the 10-year mark gets further into the dregs of
pc-sameness,
portables still offer a wealth of individuality.
Some more recent portables of note:
Atari Portfolio (1989)
Fujistu Poquet (1989)
Gateway Handbook (?)
Dauphin DTR1
Various GRiD's and GRiDPads
NCR Pen computers
Dolch Lunchboxes
Various ruggedized laptops
Does anyone own, or has anyone at least seen, a Go Penpoint computer? I'd
love to have one.
If you haven't read the book _Startup_ by Jerry Kaplan then you might want
to. It is a great story about the Go! Corporation, innovators of
pen-based computing. It has many excellent insights into the hi-tech
business world and is overall a great read.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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7:27 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Does anyone own, or has anyone at least seen, a Go
Penpoint computer? I'd
love to have one.
I think the only non-prototype computer that came out of GO was the EO
(two models: 440 and 880). I had the chance to buy a small truck load of
them once, but the owner wanted too much.
You can still find PenPoint running on other pen-based machines (like the
IBM 700T). I have my own theory of why PenPoint flopped: it didn't come
with solitaire.
-- Doug
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