Convergent Technologies Workslate

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Oct 1 00:59:13 2000

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Kevin Stewart wrote:

> I have one of these -- the guy I got it from claimed that is was a
> prototype Palm Pilot (NO idea where he got that from) but it was a
> cool looking machine so I picked it up anyway. Only $8, what the
> hell...

That's a load of crap. He was probably thinking something along the lines
that it was a Palm Pilot 15 years before the Palm Pilot.
 
> But I haven't really been able to do anything useful with it -- there's a
> little spreadsheet program, text editor, tape recorder, 300 baud modem +
> comms software, but my TI-86 graphing calculator can do all of this
> (including the modem, up to 9600 bps ;) )

Sure, but 15 years ago?

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