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From: grover@big-joe.cs.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
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Subject: Re: Don't Panic - a dream
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.203950.29125@unlv.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 20:39:50 GMT
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In article <7444@acorn.co.uk>, asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:
) I once had a dream, It consisted mainly of taking a manufacturer,
) Encyclopaedea Brittanica, TimeLife books and Douglas Adams; then rolling
) them all together to work on a project. The project was a small hand held
) computer with a colour screen, the whole of the en. Brittanica, all of the
) TimeLife books, detailed maps of the world, spell
) checker/dictionary/thesorus and a powerfull calculator all built in.
) Inscribe 'Don't Panic' in large friendly letters on top, then market it as
) the first earth version of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy...
) 
) Now I know more about what goes on, I know that this is not (yet)
) technically possible, we're talking 116Gbytes with real time image
) decompression and a 640 x 400 pixel 3" colour screen. However if HP were to
) take the 95LX case, install the 48S as a calculator, then using current
) 4mbit EPROM/ROM technology put a compressed version of the Brittanica in
) with a dict/spell chk/theus (about 32Mbyte), they could produce something
) that would be very useful to many people. They may even be able to get
) Douglas Adams consent to inscribe 'Don't Panic' in large friendly letters on
) top...
) 
) Any one think this would catch on?????

It would give me a kick!  (Might be a little on the expensive side though)

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