[comp.society.futures] Dynabook etc.

js9b+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jon C. Slenk") (05/01/89)

Howeydy all!

I am the happy owner of a HP 28s calculator/computer. I am amazed at how they 
managed to fit som much into such a small case. I have gotten to wondering: if
they could make the 28s, couldn't they do tsomething like:

Make one side of teh cahe case a small but full qwerty keyboard, and teh ohe other an
entire LCD discreen? This woudl ld be a very nice unit, as far as I am concernceded:
it would be small, portable, fairly easy to type on (say if the case was a
little larger and we took time to be caureful typeists) and could easily have
the programmable and calculating power of the current 28s. Perhaps extra
software could be included ie Dynabook? Heck, the think ge *already* has an IR
port for printers! Perhaps one for disks...?

Just an idea...

Sincerely, 
Jon Slenk  /  js9b+@andrew.cmu.edu