Dynabook Usability
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Thu Aug 28 18:59:04 UTC 2003
Tim Rowledge wrote:
>Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Speaking of hardware innovations, though, one idea I've thought would be
>>interesting: If you had a truly flexible screen technology, you could
>>have a dynabook with the form factor of a scroll. When rolled up, you'd
>>have a very portable (say) 6" long stick, which you could then unroll
>>into a 12"x6" screen.
>>
>>
>I proposed this waaaaay back when I was at the RCA in '84 and the
>fastest personal machines were 1MHz 6502s (the BBC micro was much faster
>than the IBM pc at the time) and graphic displays weren't even in most
>people's dream. I really wish I had published something at the time.
>Fairly soon it will be possible and the irony is that one of the people
>'in charge' of a major player in the game is actually the guy who
>started Acorn and Active Book.
>
>
Yeah, I pretty much assumed I wasn't the first person to think of this,
but I thought I'd throw it out there to find out who did think of it
first. :-)
- Doug
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