Yet another interesting bit of hardware in the Dynapad vein.. .

Swan, Dean Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM
Tue May 14 22:58:38 UTC 2002


Yes guys, the OQO has been mentioned here before, and like the Tiqit 83, it too is not yet available for purchase.  The Tiqit device caught my eye though because of it's resemblence to Alan Kay's original cardboard Dynabook prototypes (i.e. screen on top, keyboard on bottom, one piece design - not the ubiquitous clamshell) - which I liked very much.

The Win-tel crowd just has to realize how important "instant-on" is in portable computers.  How many people would want an iPaq PocketPC if it took as long to "boot-up" as a desktop Windows machine?

I was just reading through the "Personal Dynamic Media" document from Alan & co. and I can't help but wonder "Is there anything in Squeak that you guys hadn't already done 30 years ago on the Alto?"  You had about as much music capability back then as we have now (maybe not as many notes in real time, but the basic framework looks pretty much the same).  You had "Programming Using Pictures", which seems an awful lot like the eToys tile system.  It seems like all the basics were put in place back then, and the last 30 years has just been refining the implementation.  Absolutely amazing!


A lot more of the "fiddly bits" are worked out now, but boy they seem to have all the broad strokes covered back then.

						-Dean


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From: Swan, Dean [mailto:Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM]
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Subject: Yet another interesting bit of hardware in the Dynapad vein...


A complete Win-tel PC that's not much bigger than an iPaq!

		http://www.tiqit.com/specs.html





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