Re: NTLK Pippin optional touchscreen & keyboard -- eMate prototype?

From: Bill Davis (newton@ecity.net)
Date: Sat Aug 19 2000 - 15:15:37 CDT


On 8/18/00 10:06 AM, CM Stimpson [mailto:macheel@dialfree.net] wrote:

>on 8/17/00 3:51 AM, NewtonMP at newtonmp@mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> Here are some links about Pippin. The first one has a good summary about
>> the Pippin story.
>>
>> http://www.geocities.com/~compcloset/BandaiPippin.htm
>> http://www.morochove.com/watch/cw/ff60118.htm
>> http://www.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1996/q3/960516.pr.rel.pippin.htm
>
>Thanks for the Pippin info, NewtonMP.
>
>I especially like that first link.
>
>Anyone who checks that first link out may notice what I noticed....
>
>the optional Pippin touchscreen (with stylus) and built-in keyboard seems to
>look suspiciously familiar....
>
>anyone else besides me think that Apple may have dug that out of the files
>when they were coming up with the concept for the eMate?
>

I've always thought the Pippin logo looks an awful lot like the old NeXT
Computer logo. A square/cube with multi-colored text of the name.

 - Bill

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