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

Chuck Thacker's name is not on the web site.
Maybe he will be on the stage with Bill Gates,
at the launch event in New York city
(11:30AM EST, today, webcasted).

Cheers,

PhiHo.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Kay" <Alan.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <squeak-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [LOOKHERE] cute tablet - runs win XP - how about squeafiying it
?


> 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
> >>
> >>  -----
> >>
> >>  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
> >>
> >>
> >>  --
> >>
>
>
> --
>