[LOOKHERE] cute tablet - runs win XP - how about squeafiying it ?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 7 16:04:47 UTC 2002


Not if I know Bill ... but, let's hope they did invite him ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:15 AM -0500 11/7/02, PhiHo Hoang wrote:
>Chuck Thacker's name is not on the web site.
>Maybe he will be on the stage with Bill Gates,
>at the launch event in New York city
>(11:30AM EST, today, webcasted).
>
>Cheers,
>
>PhiHo.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>
>To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [LOOKHERE] cute tablet - runs win XP - how about squeafiying it
>?
>
>
>>  The real question is whether they mentioned Chuck Thacker ... who
>>  made this incarnation actually happen.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  Alan
>>
>>  -----At 9:28 AM -0500 11/7/02, PhiHo Hoang wrote:
>>  >Hi,
>>  >
>>  >     Would someone please call Microsoft to ask
>>  >     who is 'computer scientist Alan Key'
>>  >     (see quote below)
>>  >
>>  >     Cheers,
>>  >
>>  >     PhiHo.
>>  >
>>  >http://www.microsoft.com/insider/opsystems/tabletpc_history.asp
>>  >
>>  >
>>  ><QUOTE>
>>  >     1960s: Earliest Pen Computing Developments
>>  >
>>  >     1963: Ivan Sutherland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>(MIT)
>>  >used the light pen to create engineering drawings directly on his TX-2
>>  >computer's CRT display. A giant machine even by the standards of the
>day-and
>>  >definitely not portable-the TX-2 is the first known machine to use pen
>>  >technology.
>>  >
>>  >     1964: RAND Corporation introduced the first iteration of the
>portable
>>  >tablet computer with the Grafacon.2 Mostly handmade, this early tablet
>used
>>  >a pen-based input device that cost $18,000 to manufacture.
>>  >
>>  >     1968:Computer scientist Alan Key described a computer that could be
>used
>>  >effortlessly by untrained users, which he called the Dynabook-a
>lightweight
>>  >device on which he envisioned a person could take notes and work
>>  >interactively with wireless communications.3
>>  ></QUOTE>
>>  >
>>  >----- Original Message -----
>>  >From: "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org>
>>  >To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>  >Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:40 PM
>>  >Subject: Re: [LOOKHERE] cute tablet - runs win XP - how about squeafiying
>it
>>  >?
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >>  The guts of all of these were designed by Chuck Thacker, the main HW
>>  >>  guy of the original PARC team. Squeak runs really well on it -- we
>>  >>  got an early look last year.
>>  >>
>>  >>  Cheers,
>>  >>
>>  >>  Alan
>>  >>
>>  >>  -----
>>  >>
>>  >>  At 1:44 AM +0100 11/7/02, Edmund Ronald wrote:
>>  >>  >http://www.eweek.com/slideshow/0,3670,p=1&s=0&a=33365&po=2&i=1,00.asp
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>  --
>>  >>
>>
>>
>>  --
>>


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