A Vision from the Year 1994
The story of my idea for a Tablet PC sixteen years before it existed.
By Wolkem
English Version of my essay written original in German and translated with Deepl Translate by Deepl SE and own corrections. Original essay in German, see previous post.
The story begins in April 1994. It was a Saturday morning. A few weeks ago, I had bought an MS-DOS Windows 3.1 computer with the new Pentium processor from Intel. Now the wickedly expensive device stood on my desk. A tube monitor with a curved screen and under the desk a tall, narrow, grey tin box with strange contents of plastic cards and soldering metal and other smaller tin boxes, all this mounted on and against a large plastic board. The main board that connects everything in this box, as I learned in an instructive EDP course at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and on which the things mounted there looked to me in the draw view like a futuristic city with its streets. And took away half of the space at my desk in its entire EDP system size.
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