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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <squeak-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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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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