On 13-Oct-07, at 5:09 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
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> Thanks Tim. I enjoy hearing people's history with technology.

My pleasure. It's always useful to remember history, especially in  
this industry where I bet some dork is about to try to patent the use  
of XOR to display a cursor on a screen. Again.

> I remember the Momenta. I remember going somewhere (can't remember,  
> maybe to a seminar) to see it before it came out. I thought it was  
> great that is was based on smalltalk.
Yup; basically a DigiTalk system though I *think* Dave Thomas & co @  
Carleton U had something to do with the VM?

>
> Looking on the net, I see that Active Book was more than a product,  
> it was also the name of the company by Hermann Hauser
Oh yes, Uncle Hermann. Charming, smart, witty, urbane, apparently  
very good looking (according to many women I know) and quite good to  
work for. Except that he totally ratted us out by selling to ATT.

An interesting thing to consider is that the chumby I mentioned a few  
days ago (www.chumby.com) has about 100 times the cpu speed, about  
100 times the memory, can drive a 800 * 600 16bpp screen and costs  
about $200. Oh and it does have a touchscreen as well as a few  
buttons. Can't help seeing some possibilities here.

tim
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