From: Raj Patel (phigmov_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 28 2004 - 21:04:40 PDT
> Bring it with you to any other NeXT machine and off you go.... didn't work too well due
> to speed issues...
Ah I was wondering what the thinking behind that was - I hear the
drives/disks were also notoriously unreliable which probably severly
impacted upon peoples trust in these devices.
I guess if Newton technology were successful or more pervasive the
ability to carry your personality around on a memory card and plug it
into any compatible device would be pretty cool. I guess you'd need
serious encryption and safegaurds for this to work though.
Reminds me a little of the 3Com Audrey which was meant to act as the
'house-hub' allowing up to 3 Palms to sync with it and coordinate
household activities.
Raj.
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