Newsweek article on "Dynabook-like" computer

Roger Vossler rvossler at qwest.net
Thu Apr 26 19:37:47 UTC 2001


Hi Gang,
    Speaking of a stylus, I understand that Squeak currently has support
for a small graphics tablet. True or false? If true, which ones?
Cheers, Roger.....

Alan Kay wrote:
> 
> Well, as Andreas pointed out, one really needs a keyboard as part of the idea.
> If you look at the earliest photograph of the cardboard model from 1968, you
> will see that it has a keyboard -- harder to see is the stylus which is
> embedded in the side. These considerations came from a fair amount of use of
> both GRAIL at RAND (a completely penbased system with a great realtime

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