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From: andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Notebook computers
Summary: I've played with it.
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.021508.1671@jhereg.osa.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 02:15:08 GMT
Sender: Andrew C. Esh
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Organization: Open Systems Architects, Inc., Mpls, MN
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I worked for a while in the same office as a guy who was on loan from GO,
and who had a Notebook with him. Quit the unit. They were still working out
a lot of the bugs when I saw it (about June of last year). I played around
with it for a while. The display looks a lot like a Macintosh Portable. The
user interface is a bit more complex, and it misinterpreted a lot of the
strokes, but it responded well to double-taps (Double clicks) and generally
got around okay. There is an external disk drive for it that is a half
height 3 1/2" floppy, which attaches with a ribbon cable. It will make a
great field machine, because it feels like an inch thick clipboard, and
operates about the same.

In a few years, the third or fourth generation of this concept will
definitely be the "Knowledge Navigator."


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Andrew C. Esh			andrew@osa.com
Open Systems Architects, Inc.	
Minneapolis, MN 55416-1528	So much System,
(612) 525-0000			so little CPU time...


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