On 13-Oct-07, at 5:09 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
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Thanks Tim. I enjoy hearing people's history with technology.
My pleasure. It's always useful to remember history, especially in this industry where I bet some dork is about to try to patent the use of XOR to display a cursor on a screen. Again.
I remember the Momenta. I remember going somewhere (can't remember, maybe to a seminar) to see it before it came out. I thought it was great that is was based on smalltalk.
Yup; basically a DigiTalk system though I *think* Dave Thomas & co @ Carleton U had something to do with the VM?
Looking on the net, I see that Active Book was more than a product, it was also the name of the company by Hermann Hauser
Oh yes, Uncle Hermann. Charming, smart, witty, urbane, apparently very good looking (according to many women I know) and quite good to work for. Except that he totally ratted us out by selling to ATT.
An interesting thing to consider is that the chumby I mentioned a few days ago (www.chumby.com) has about 100 times the cpu speed, about 100 times the memory, can drive a 800 * 600 16bpp screen and costs about $200. Oh and it does have a touchscreen as well as a few buttons. Can't help seeing some possibilities here.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Strange OpCodes: HBT: Harvest Binary Tree