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From: san@halley.UUCP (Steve Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Speaking of Dynabook...
Summary: info. on product called Dynabook
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Date: 18 May 89 21:01:09 GMT
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I've never actually touched the "Dynabook" advertised by that company, but
I've read preliminary reviews and articles on the product, mostly in
InfoWorld.  Briefly, the caveat being that this is all from memory...:

	* MS-DOS portable the shape and size of a textbook
	* Built in Microsoft Windows
	* Uses only a LCD display & a touch screen built in,  no keyboard
	  or CRT
	* Uses only a CD-ROM

In one article I read, the author started out being upset that someone had
taken the name "Dynabook" and put out a product distant from Alan Kay's, 
who has/had a vision of a computer he called the "Dynabook".  By the end
of the article, the author has nice things to say about the product
"Dynabook", though it is not close to what Alan Kay described.

Steve Sanderson