Retro Computing: The Dynabook Concept

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reminds me of; * cambridge z88 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88

* amstrad nc100 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_NC100

* dana - http://www.neo-direct.com/Dana/

i've always thought these would be good for kids in school teaching them with a proper keyboard and fairly indestructible. got an nc100 for a friend years ago cheap and she loved that on a summer day she could sit in a park and work for hours with no problems.

I got an NC100 from a friend of mine and I (hopefully just) blew a fuse by connecting the wrong power supply.

I must get it up and running again - the z88dk[1] compiler supports it. It also makes a serviceable portable serial terminal.

[1] http://www.z88dk.org/

Oh man, when I was 8 years old I wanted a Z88 but it didn't happen. I might try to get hold of one to play with.

I would love to get one of these for my son to learn to program on. Ebay shows a number of them available for parts but none in working order. Does anybody know how to get a working one? I would be happy to pay someone for parts and time.

My first thought was the TRS-80 Model 100, another popular "Slabtop": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100

Isn't it cool how technology breathes live into existing ideas and makes then reality? I wouldn't wanna be in any other line of work.

Nice illustration why ideas are worthless without actual viable implementation.

Except for the fact that much of the work done at Xerox PARC during the 70s was an attempt to produce the software that such a device would run, in anticipation of the day, decades hence, when it would be practical (given Moore's law, etc).

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