Thomas --

The Tripad and the Clio are the same machine...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 4:53 PM -0000 12/11/98, thomas k. wrote:
>You might look into the Vadem Clio:      http://www.vadem.com
>
>640x480 256 color _touch screen_ display, 16-32 MB ram.
>
>Alan Kay wrote:
>
>> Jens --
>>
>> The HW we've found that is most like it at this point is the Sharp Actius
>> (it's a very slim very light laptop like the Sony Vaio). It's fast, has a
>> very bright 800*600 screen, has a large disk, and weighs less than 3 pounds
>> (the Dynabook was supposed to be 2 pounds). Missing: a good proximity
>> sensing display surface for drawing with a stylus. But this machine,
>> running with Squeak taking over the complete display, gives a real feeling
>> of "Dynabook".
>>
>> We are also about to get a Tripad, which does have at least a
>> touch-sensitive display (that is only VGA unofrtunately). However, I have a
>> feeling that it will not have enough CPU power to be interesting.
>>
>> The neat thing though is that it's clear that we could configure a
>> "Dynabook" right now with a little work ...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan
>>
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>>
>> At 1:40 PM -0000 12/11/98, JENS at ejs.is wrote:
>> >Hi
>> >
>> >I've been looking for hardware similar to the Dynabook.
>> >Has anyone run into this kind of device (available commercially)?
>> >I don't consider the PDA's available now to fall into this group.
>> >I also find that the Newton falls short of what I am expecting (small
>> >screen, no color, ...)
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Jens
>
>
>
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