on 02-09-2000 11:17, Peter Apockotos at g4@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>> on 09/02/2000 05:17 AM, Daniel Padilla at daniel.padilla@wanadoo.es wrote:
>>
>> Here you can find amovie of an E-mate being powered by a wind-up powered
>> radio!!
>> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9708/06/safrica.computer/index.html
> Did you read the article, I bet they did not remove the internal battery,
> and this is not the right computer to test real world portable computing
> power needs.
Why not ?
As far as remember reading the different articles at the time this wasn't a
hoax but it really worked.
Might have been simpler with a solar panel though....
Robert Benschop
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