[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
--------
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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