Thank you, Alan.  My interest, in this case, is the history, of which I
appreciate each new fragment.

Gary


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Cc: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Smalltalk-72 [Was: threads]


> It was the BestBuy price of one of the early Mac powerbooks one year old.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> -------
>
> At 8:42 PM -0500 2/18/02, gafisher at sprynet.com wrote:
> >Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:
> >>  Thanks to Marcel Weiher, "The Early History of Smalltalk" can be found
at:
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.metaobject.com/papers/SmallHistory.pdf
> >>
> >
> >Dear Alan;
> >
> >A fascinating paper indeed; thank you for posting it.
> >
> >Though I haven't finished reading "The Early History" yet, the
> >introduction immediately caught my eye when you mentioned the US$700
> >"1992 Interim Dynabook."  Though I might be able to guess, could you
> >identify this machine?  More to the point, what (if anything) would you
> >consider to be the current equivalent?
> >
> >Gary Fisher
> >