Re: Computers
In reply to #4121 Computers and well starports .... by Adam Naylor
> Adrian Hurt [email removed] > > [email removed] (Adam Naylor) writes: > > > > A tech 11 hand computer (about 1/5 the size of a milk container) has > > a 20 meg hard disk and 2 meg memory . > > > A TL 9, or maybe even late TL 8 hand computer will have 20 meg of something. > It won't be a hard disc as we know it, because gyroscopic effects would > make using a hard disc in a hand computer a bad idea. (An ACR with a 20 MB [...] Late Tech 8 or tech 9??? What about today's technology? I just read this in the latest (May 1992 p61) issue of Network Computing: GRiD has announced PalmPAD, the first wearable pen computer, a 2.8 pound full-featured pen-based PC with a 6.5 inch backlit screen, 2Mb of RAM, and a slot for a 20-Mb *solid state* "Disk Drive". molded rubber and plastic package that can pass a three foot drop test on concrete. One cable provides power and comm link allowing well-dressed power users to turn their belts into expansion buses. Dubbed Belt Bus, the "LAN that is worn around your belt" will accommodate "future belt-mounted peripherals, such as printers, magnetic stripe readers, and batteries". The main unit's grip is hollowed out to fit either 2,400-bps data-fax modem or a spread-spectrum radio modem (microwave technology). Base price: US$ 2,895 -Dan Dan Corrin, Network Manager, Mechanical Engineering, UWO, London, Ontario InterNet: [email removed]. [phone removed] TML/CZ/FrameUsers/Consim FTP site: sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca (129.100.100.12)