Penpoint! was Re: 10 years

From: Keys <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sat Oct 5 08:59:01 2002

Anyone else that has one of these for sale email me off list with your
asking price. Thanks jrkeys_at_concentric.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Shannon" <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Penpoint! was Re: 10 years


> Sure, I'll sell you a VersaPad!
>
> Philip Pemberton wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From:Bob Shannon <mailto:bshannon_at_tiac.net>
> >
> > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> >
> > 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.
> > philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com <mailto:philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com>
> > http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
> >
>
>
>
Received on Sat Oct 05 2002 - 08:59:01 BST

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