Sure, I'll sell you a VersaPad!
Philip Pemberton wrote:
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> From:Bob Shannon <mailto:bshannon_at_tiac.net>
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> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
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> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:41 PM
>
> Subject: Penpoint! was Re: 10 years
>
> Back when I worked at NEC, we had done a lot of work on a
> tablet-based portable PC called
> a VersaPad. The VersaPad was a fairly slick little 486SX based
> machine with a paper-white
> mono VGA display and a MicroTouch digitizer. It used an active,
> RF-linked 'pen' stylus with
> mouse-like buttons, etc.
>
> OMG... I remember seeing a tablet-based machine in a computer store a
> few years ago, when 486 SX/25s were still "top of the range" as far as
> laptops were concerned. A fast-talking salesman walked up to my Mum
> and then proceeded to demo a rather nice tablet-based PC, followed by
> a very nice Samsung NoteMaster laptop. I told my Mum to get the tablet
> PC. She said "The laptop's better". Guess which one she ended up
> buying... Yup. A Samsung NoteMaster 486S/25N. As proprietary as hell -
> Samsung BIOS, proprietary hard drive, floppy drive, RAM, name it. And
> now the 3.6V lithium battery is duff. And to top it all off, Tadiran
> (original manufacturer) don't make another one like it. And I'm
> trading her my Compaq Contura 420C (after I put Win3.1 and Word 6 on
> it) for it. Why do I get the feeling I'm making a huge mistake?
>
> From what I remember, the tablet PC had a 486 CPU, 8MB RAM and a 7" or
> so touch-sensitive screen you had to touch with a stylus. Oh, and it
> ran Pen Windows. And it was black. And IIRC it had a pull-out keyboard.
>
>
>
> BTW, anyone got a tablet based PC they feel like parting with? I'd
> love to get one simply to recapture some of the childhood I lost when
> my Mum chose the laptop over the tablet PC.
>
>
>
> Later.
>
> --
> Phil.
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Received on Sat Oct 05 2002 - 08:50:01 BST