Tim Rowledge wrote:

>Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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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