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From: <bogus_at_does.not.exist.com>
Date: Sun Feb 27 13:22:22 2005

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.
--=20
Phil.
philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/

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  style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
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  <A title=3Dbshannon_at_tiac.net href=3D"mailto:bshannon_at_tiac.net">Bob =
Shannon</A>=20
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  <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=3Dcctalk_at_classiccmp.org=20
  href=3D"mailto:cctalk_at_classiccmp.org">cctalk_at_classiccmp.org</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 04, 2002 =
11:41=20
  PM</DIV>
  <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Penpoint! was Re: 10 =
years</DIV>
  <DIV>Back when I worked at NEC, we had done a lot of work on a =
tablet-based=20
  portable PC called<BR>a VersaPad. &nbsp;The VersaPad was a fairly =
slick little=20
  486SX based machine with a paper-white<BR>mono VGA display and a =
MicroTouch=20
  digitizer. &nbsp;It used an active, RF-linked 'pen' stylus =
with<BR>mouse-like=20
  buttons, etc.<BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>OMG... I remember seeing a tablet-based =
machine in=20
a computer store a few years ago, when 486 SX/25s were still "top of the =
range"=20
as far as laptops were concerned. A fast-talking salesman walked up to =
my Mum=20
and then proceeded to demo a rather nice tablet-based PC, followed by a =
very=20
nice Samsung NoteMaster laptop. I told my Mum to get the tablet PC. She =
said=20
"The laptop's better". Guess which one she ended up buying... Yup. A =
Samsung=20
NoteMaster 486S/25N. As proprietary as hell - Samsung BIOS, proprietary =
hard=20
drive, floppy drive, RAM, name it. And now the 3.6V lithium battery is =
duff. And=20
to top it all off, Tadiran (original manufacturer) don't make another =
one like=20
it. And I'm trading her my Compaq Contura 420C (after I put Win3.1 and =
Word 6 on=20
it) for it. Why do I get the feeling I'm making a huge =
mistake?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>From what I remember, the tablet PC had =
a 486 CPU,=20
8MB RAM and a 7" or so touch-sensitive screen you had to touch with a =
stylus.=20
Oh, and it ran Pen Windows. And it was black. And IIRC it had a pull-out =

keyboard.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>BTW, anyone got a tablet based PC they =
feel like=20
parting with? I'd love to get one simply to recapture some of the =
childhood I=20
lost when my Mum chose the laptop over the tablet PC.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Later.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>-- <BR>Phil.<BR><A=20
href=3D"mailto:philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com">philpem_at_dsl.pipex.com</A><BR><A=20
href=3D"http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/">http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.c=
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