Convergent Technologies workSlate

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Sun Oct 4 04:15:37 1998

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Shawn Rutledge wrote:

> No, but I'm curious what is a workSlate?

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
Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 04:15:37 BST