Not if I know Bill ... but, let's hope they did invite him ...
Cheers,
Alan
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At 10:15 AM -0500 11/7/02, PhiHo Hoang wrote:
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
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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