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...course the British would sell their goods to anyone, even former colonies. No sense in letting a rebellion stand in the way of trade, says Wilk, pointing to a tapestry created for the U.S. market featuring George Washington holding a tablet that reads "American Independence 1776." It may not be style, but it?s certainly panache...
Bill Gates has been waxing lyrical about a device called the Tablet PC for so many years that it's become a running joke in the tech press. Finally last week, at the computer industry's big annual Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, the famous Tablet became more than just talk. Nine major manufacturers--including Toshiba, NEC and Compaq--unveiled Tablet PCs that they're about to bring to market. Each will sell for roughly the price of a laptop, and all will run Windows XP Tablet PC edition and a handwriting program called Journal. Microsoft promises both programs...
Eager to get a feel for what these new machines can do, I took a Tablet PC--made by Acer and running Journal--out for a test-drive. The hardware is pretty slick. It starts off looking like a laptop, but then you unhook part of the screen, swing it around 180[degrees] and push it down. Press a button to go from landscape to portrait view, and presto! Instant Tablet. The whole thing is about the size of a thick legal pad, weighs under 3 lbs. and sits comfortably on your thigh. It doesn...
...Sure, there are choice tidbits here and there. Bill Gates' "state of the union" keynote speech on Sunday unveiled some interesting new Tablet PCs and the software that will make them work (Tablet PCs, vaporware at every previous Comdex, are finally starting to come into their own). But to get to the scraps of good stuff, even in Gates' speech, you had to wade through a lot of promotional crap. It's just like watching Prime Time...
...tablet honors Lucy Nettie Fletcher ’10, Ruth Holden ’11 and Helen Homans, a special student between 1908 and 1911. Fletcher died in France in 1918, Holden in Kazan, Russia in 1917 and Homan in Pontoise, France...