Re: [NTLK] Memories of eMate

From: Scott Mugan (scott_at_digitalwavegraphics.com)
Date: Tue Jun 18 2002 - 12:51:14 EDT


I still have a couple model 102s....cool little machines...how to get 802.11
into one of them......
-Scott

on 6/18/02 12:37 PM, Lee, Christopher J at christopher.j.lee_at_intel.com
arranged electrons in the following style:

>
> Man...I miss my Model 100...if you think a Newt turns heads, you shoulda
> seen people at meetings staring at me when I was typing up minutes at
> meetings...:-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Wittmann [mailto:wittmannmichael_at_mac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 5:43 AM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Memories of eMate
>
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 02:32 AM, Sushi wrote:
>>> On 6/18/02 @ 1:44 PM, Grant [Ipswitch] Hutchinson wrote:
>>> I'd take my 20 year old Radio Shack Model 100 instead. Anytime.
>> That was a nice device!
>>
>
> I have to agree, it was great! My introduction to the
> Keep-It-Simple-Stupid world of instant-on and it-simply-works computing
> was a Model 102 which I acquired after reading about eMates replacing
> them (slowly) in the world of newspaper reporters. A great machine, but
> I filled the 24k too quickly. Remembering my Basic, learned in DOS 1.0
> in 1982 or whenever that was, created a bit of a challenge. I wrote a
> few web sites for folks interested in them, available at
> <http://perlnet.umephy.maine.edu/bio/wittmann/personal/pooter/> for any
> who care...
>
> Michael
>

-- 
Scott Mugan
Digital Wave Labs
Plantation, FL
954-327-1117
scott_at_digitalwavegraphics.com

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