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

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 7 14:48:09 UTC 2002


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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